Public sale of Adams County real estate in Gettysburg
Writs of Venditioni Exponas issued to expose multiple parcels in Adams County Pa to public sale at the Gettysburg courthouse on a Saturday in November. Parcels include 7 acre Union Township tract with two story log house and outbuildings, Noah Plowman interest in 12 acres with log house and barn, undivided half of two lots on Fast Middle Street, a 7 acre Homdoolan Township farm with stone house and barn, a two story brick house in Monallon Township, a lot in Gettysburg Borough with a three story weather boarded house, a Franklin Township 170 acre farm with a two story log house and barn plus 50 acres woodland, and more with costs and ten percent deposit required.
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Court of Common Pleas
Adams County
Gettysburg
Union township
Uriah J. Baughinyn
Simuel Heller
Nutt Plowman
Noah Plowman
aroas
Gattysburg
rignry Utz
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Joan Sraivany WItrenow
Aisa
Monallon township
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Contry
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Adso
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snallay
Daniel B. Pitcemturif
Sopolion Powers
Wranklin township
Michael Meory
George Dagwalt
Franklin
Wirntas Bonner
ISAAC LIGHTNER
Suenree Sheriffs Office
Grutysburg
TRINAMIN HELLAR & WIPE
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JAMES J
WILLS
LE subsorier
hit FARM
Cumberland township
Adama county
Rockcreek
Henry Lott
J. Runkle
Janes Ricer
proparty
JAMES BLACK
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Sunset Land of Forgotten Eden and Arcadian Memory
Fragmented text paints a dreamlike scene of past Eden and Arcadia, with faded imagery of fields, melodies, and memory. The surreal prose suggests longing for a pristine landscape and lost time, intertwined with nature and myth. Names, places, and exact events are obscured by garbled OCR, leaving a poetic reminiscence rather than reportable facts.
Miseslignsons An Item for Boys
An early public exhortation warns boys against laziness and idleness urging labor as honorable and essential to health wealth and happiness. It condemns seeking easy work and vagabond desires and urges pursuit of honest calling with pride in work.
Do Right and Speak Truth in Daily Life
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Early Jeffer son College tale of Tom Devoe and the President
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A Sharp Bargain and Odd Tales From Gedar Towh
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Litaku
Country School Keeping Turns Satirical Train Wreck
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Test Kind O'went Away. Good morning Reuben Squire
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Squire
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Tn Ginsinnati
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