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Payment Received/Receipt: Three Dates: 17th March 1827, 19th March 1827, 30th March 1827 Signed off by George Boyer, Thomas Harrison, and Samual Smith on payments received by George Douglass for; Mr. Sheepshank and himself. "Received 17th March 1827 of George Douglass Thirty Dollars for 500 Bined Straw for Mr Sheepshank --------- 30 D
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Receipt / Payment received Mr. George Douglass bot of Mr M Denekle Location: Phildelphia Date: 3 June 1807 Philad[elphia] June 5 1807 Mr. George Douglass Bot (bought) of Mr. M Denekle 1 (symbol means "paid"?) trunk? mirror (paid symbol) ___67 3. ( paid symbol?)
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A six-page type-written history of George Douglass and his business influence in the area of current day Douglassville, PA, as well as a description of his political and business success. Text also contains various descriptions of elements of the George Douglass House, including the full-perimeter [“encircling”] plastered cove cornice, a refinement emanating
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A two-page handwritten genealogy of George Douglass, beginning with George's father, Andrew and including four generations in total. A paragraph following the information on fourth generation includes brief deed information for White Horse Tavern, George Douglass House, and Mouns Jones House. See additional image for full text.
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Series of two images showing the title page and inscription pages from a law book titled ”The Charters and Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania....” printed by Peter Miller and Company, Philadelphia, 1762. Title page indicates that this book is Volume I of a two-volume set. However, the book’s owner indicates that this particular book has Volu
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Series of 35 pages that describes the location, ownership, history, architecture, etc. of the George Douglass House. This is the main application sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National Register Status for the Douglass House. Photos included with this
View recordIn a Sept 15, 1997 manuscript note to Dr. Donald A. Shelley, then a Trust Board member, Theresa Beard--a Trust founder, former President, and long-time Board member--reported that she “spoke to a man who said he did not think there was a butcher shop in the Douglass Mansion but when he was very young…about 10 years old…he remembered the Slaughter House and s
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Photocopies of sixteen handwritten pages outlining: 1) the genealogy of Douglass family--starting with George Douglass Senior's father, Andrew, and the 4 generations after George Sr. 2) properties owned by George Sr. 3) a 1799 inventory inventory of the George Sr. estate 4) a partial transcription of George Junior's 1832 will 5) and a chain of tittle
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Eight page newsletter published by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Feb. 1997 (Volume IV, Number 3). Topics discussed include: 32nd annual Mouns Jones Country Fair, educations programs, George Douglass House update, George Douglass history, colonial Military Muster, Christmas Tea, annual membership meeting, calendar of events, and voluntee
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Photocopy of a one-page Architectural Data Form prepared by Barry K. Stover for Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Form was prepared in order to update existing HABS information for George Douglass House privy. This information was never filed with HABS. See GDHFN1---1002.01.016 for measured field notes drawings created by Barry Stover to accompan
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