The collection contains fire insurance applications, promissory notes, court documents (summons, subpoenas), and a supplement to an act incorporating a railroad. Includes four applications to the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Middle Pennsylvania to cover the houses, furniture, barns, grain, and livestock of John Showalter (Harris Township), William Lohre, John F. Downing (Half Moon Township), and Margaret Gregg (Potter Township), 1874; promissory notes from William Welsh to William Robeson, 1829, Thomas Harrison and Henry James payments received, 1831 and 1832, Nicholas Fry to William Robeson, 1828; list of sundry notes left by T. Hastings, Jr. for collection, 1831, and three promissory notes to him from James Armor, Samuel Whisson, and Sam Hildebrant, 1831. Also, list of settled accounts, 1822-1830, for James Smith, deceased, 1838; Daniel Snyder's assumption of rent for Samuel Hickes from Matlock Benner, 1836; list of sundry notes left by William Welch for collection, 1830; Girard Fire Insurance Co., Philadelphia, Pa. policy envelope; envelope addressed to W.W. Hale, Philipsburg, with pencilled account columns and notation, "sundry accounts, Morgan Hale;" a handwritten copy, 7 May 1838, of a supplement to the act entitled "an Act to incorporate the Middleport and Pine Creek Rail Road Company and for other purposes" adding sections 8-14, passed 16 April 1838. Also, court papers: subpoena, to appear 15 August 1827, Berks County Court of Common Pleas, case of Sebastian Mills, plaintiff, and John Hery, defendant, 28 July 1827; summons, Centre County Court of Common Pleas, re: Ann Lucas, widow of Baptist Lucas, concerning 100 acres of land in Snow Shoe Township, 1856; notice, Centre County Court of Common Pleas, to heirs of Baptist Lucas (David Lucas, defendant), that deposition of Samuel Askey will be taken in Bellefonte on 10 June 1856, 19 May 1856; ruling, Centre County Clerk of the Orphans' Court, on valuation of land owned by Baptist Lucas, deceased, 1856; notice, to the Centre County Sheriff and David Lucas, concerning Baptist Lucas's land, 1856. Also, attorney William P. Wilson's papers: annotated printed complaint, District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, August term 1849, no. 51, John Harris vs. John A. Wright, indebtedness for money lent; two sheets of definitions of contracts; notes about an unidentified court case.
