1820 JOHN WORKMAN. 60pp Pennsylvania Manuscript - Orphan Court, Hymns, Legal Documents

A very fine 60pp manuscript fragment dating to the 1820’s. Belonging to and in the hand of John Workman, signed, “John Workman his Manuscript.1826” and similar elsewhere. There is a further note that says that “John Workman came to John Storremkeltz for to learn the wagoner trade, July 25, 1825.” It seems he was perhaps an immigrant and working as a Clerk, and working on his handwriting, etc,.   The manuscript contains, in part, holographs of legal documents, including mortgages, leases of farms and lands, indenture for a young apprentice in Pittsburg as a shoemaker, a proxy vote for the bank board of directors of Montgomery County a public auction of goods and chattel, agreement for construction of a home, etc., for Berks County, Shepherd County, Lancaster County, Pittsburg, Allegheny County, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, etc. Also includes: *A very interesting deed “By Administrators by order of Orphans Court to Satisfy Debt,” regarding the seizure of lands from an orphan heir to s