[Indenture] 1764 May 1 between John Miller and his wife Elizabeth of the borough of Lancaster and Francis Yantz of Manner (Manor) Township, Lancaster County, Pa. for a lot in Millersburg (Millersville), Pa. n.d.

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[Indenture] 1764 May 1 between John Miller and his wife Elizabeth of the borough of Lancaster and Francis Yantz of Manner (Manor) Township, Lancaster County, Pa. for a lot in Millersburg (Millersville), Pa. n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27006095

For a five-acre tract of land on Blue Rock St., no. 20 on the town plan.

1 leaf : vellum ; 39 x 48 cm.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Yantz, Francis.

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Dondore, Jacob.

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Miller, John, founder of Millersville, Pa.

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John Miller was a land developer, general store owner, and blacksmith in Lancaster County, Pa., during the middle and latter part of the 18th century. He is considered to be the founder of Millersville. He laid out the town site, which he called Millersburg, in 1761 and soon afterwards began selling and renting five acre plots. Financial mismanagement and a local recession led to his arrest as a debtor in 1767. He never quite rebounded from his untimely investments and returned to being a blacks...