Name/Title
General Notes on GermantownEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.63bDescription
A typescript sheet found between pages 62 and 63 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side."
The sheet is headed "General Notes on Germantown" and contains information extracted from several sources.
From Gov. Pennypacker, a report on early Mennonites in Delaware with mention of Pieter Corndiz Plockhoy, Sir Robert Carr, Cornelius Plockhoy.
From the Germantown Independent, March 1883, a list of the first naturalized citizens, by Thomas Lloyd, May 7, 1691 - Dirck Keyser, Pieter Dirck Keyser, Hans Milan, Arents Klincken.
From the Pennsylvania Gazette, Febryary 26, 1756, reports of a servant who escaped from Benjamin Engle, of contributions by Derrick Johnson and Thomas Livezey Jr. to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and of the settlement of the the estate of Derrick Keyser by Alice Keyser, John Keyser, and Peter Keyser.
An annoucement by John and Peter Keyser of the public sale of goods of Derrick Keyser.
From the Germantauner Zeitung, Nov 29, 1785, an announcement of the re-opening of the hardware business of Jacob Knorr.
From the Poulson Advertiser, Mar 6, 1805, information about the Knorr property taken over by Kirk and Nice, settlement of the estate of Jacob Knorr, and the death of Alice Knorr.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
