[Bond] 1764, Feb. 6 binding George Moore to John Miller for the purchase of a five acre lot [in Millerstown, now Millersville]. n.d.

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[Bond] 1764, Feb. 6 binding George Moore to John Miller for the purchase of a five acre lot [in Millerstown, now Millersville]. n.d.

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Printed with names and dates written in. At bottom is a handwritten note in George Moore's hand agreeing to pay £ 50 over and above the £ 10 for the lot if he should draw the lot "whereon stands the Big Brick House."

1 leaf ; 30 cm.

Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Millersville University Library, McNairy Library

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Moore, George, of Lancaster, Pa.

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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...