Here is a newspaper article showing as early as 25 November 1825 that Abraham Barr Sr. (and others) were applying for relief from creditors. The number of Sheriff's sales in the paper at this time makes me wonder if there was a money panic going on. Can anyone shed any light? I also don't know what the asterisk means. The original is available on the Lancaster County Digitization Project: http://lcdp.wetpaint.com/ Thanks, Susan TRANSCRIPTION: County of Lancaster, Nov. 25, 1825. TAKE NOTICE, that we, the subscribers, have applied to the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Lancaster, for the benefit of the several acts of insolvency of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and they have appointed Monday, the 19th day of December, 1825, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to hear us and our creditors, at the court house in the city of Lancaster, where you may attend. George C. Strein, Thomas Wilson,* john Hogendoebler, Adam McConnill, John Ely,* David Heyd, Abraham Barr, senr.* Abraham Forney, William Schreiner, Ashbel Matthias, Jacob Hull, Henry Slaymaker,* George House,* Samuel Cowic,* Abraham Smith.* Nov. 25 On 9 Dec 1825 the same advertisement appears but with a few more names: William Wood, William Wilson, Robert McGill, Thomas Spencer, Michael Lenig, Robert Reed,* Frederick Ricker,* Joseph Dungan, Joseph Myers,
I think the asterisk might mean that the spelling of the name is not certain? Susan Y. Clawson wrote: > Here is a newspaper article showing as early as 25 November 1825 that > Abraham Barr Sr. (and others) were applying for relief from creditors. The > number of Sheriff's sales in the paper at this time makes me wonder if there > was a money panic going on. Can anyone shed any light? I also don't know > what the asterisk means. The original is available on the Lancaster County > Digitization Project: > http://lcdp.wetpaint.com/ > Thanks, > Susan > > > > TRANSCRIPTION: > County of Lancaster, Nov. 25, 1825. > TAKE NOTICE, that we, the subscribers, have applied to the Judges of the > court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Lancaster, for the benefit of > the several acts of insolvency of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and they > have appointed Monday, the 19th day of December, 1825, at 10 o'clock in the > forenoon, to hear us and our creditors, at the court house in the city of > Lancaster, where you may attend. > George C. Strein, > Thomas Wilson,* > john Hogendoebler, > Adam McConnill, > John Ely,* > David Heyd, > Abraham Barr, senr.* > Abraham Forney, > William Schreiner, > Ashbel Matthias, > Jacob Hull, > Henry Slaymaker,* > George House,* > Samuel Cowic,* > Abraham Smith.* > > Nov. 25 > > > On 9 Dec 1825 the same advertisement appears but with a few more names: > William Wood, > William Wilson, > Robert McGill, > Thomas Spencer, > Michael Lenig, > Robert Reed,* > Frederick Ricker,* > Joseph Dungan, > Joseph Myers, > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1973 - Release Date: 02/26/09 07:03:00 > >