[Rarebooks] FS: Lancaster County, PA, estate auction, 1861

[Bob Petrilla]

Blight, J.C. Handwritten records of his 1861 Lancaster County estate
auction: detailed below. Caernarvon Township, PA, 1861. Original
manuscript. 30pp ledger sheets (12" x 7.5") with handwritten entries on 17
pages, preceded by a page of legalities (few stains on first page):
"Conditions of the Public Sale, held the 26th day of November A.D. 1861 of
the goods and chattel of the assigned estate of J.C. Blight....The highest
and best bidder shall be the purchaser...." Also covers disputes. Persons
buying goods for less than $5 must pay cash. For goods over $5, the bidder
has 90 days credit; &c. Signed by James McCaa. Good. Removed.
James McCaa, born in Scotland in 1807, was appointed Justice of the Peace
of Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania, in 1842. The 1850 federal census
lists him as a wagonmaker. The Blight sale, recorded in this document,
included many household goods of the day, tools of many sorts, furniture,
grind stone, looking glass, chains, horse covers, harness, whips, Bloom
wagon, iron to forge, carriages, shoeing box, anvil, barrels, baskets, coal
wagon, &c. Surnames of purchasers include: DeHaven, Reigart, Weaver,
Ringwalt, Hornberger, Hertzler, McCormick, Rinzer, Moody, Foreman, Lincoln,
Simpson, Welsh, Moyer, Plank, &c. Caernarvon Township was at the time in
Lancaster County, now in Berks County, PA.   $75.00

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