Download or read book Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, June 2, 1916, Vol. 20 written by Lancaster County Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday, June 2, 1916, Vol. 20: Abraham Witmer's Bridge, And, Minutes of the June Meeting On November 4, 1786, petitions were presented to the General Assembly from a number of the inhabitants of the borough of Lancaster, and others residing on the east side of that part of the said Conestogoe Creek, where the great road leading from the borrough to the city of Philadelphia crosses the same, praying that a law, entitled An Act establishing a ferry and building a bridge, across Conestogoe Creek, in the county of Lancaster might be passed. Abraham Witmer at that time must have resided on the east side of the Conestogoe. As shown by the records, he owned con siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789, acquired an adjoining tract. But this statement is incorrect. The convey ance of 1789 includes in its descrip tion the tavern plot, and after his death his executor sold the whole of this land, the tavern with four acres and one hundred perches, to Samuel Diller, 'and the balance of fourteen acres, more or less, to John Schwartz. An old draft in the possession of Israel Carpenter, showing the courses and distances of the tavern property, conclusively proves this claim. The petition to the Assembly was read and ordered to lie on the table, and on November 7, it was read a second time, and referred to Mr. Hubley, Mr. Lowry and Mr. Findley, to report a bill, if they deemed it necessary. On November 15, the committee reported a bill, which was duly read. At the same time, petitions remonstrating against the proposed act were filed. On December 15 the bill was read a second time, and a remonstrance of 740 inhabitants of the county was pre sented against it. No further action seems to have been taken by the As sembly at this session. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.