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Greathouse of Dauphin County, PA

Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided in Dauphin County, PA? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point.

Greathouse kith and kin records found in the county:

1785 - Dauphin was created from Lancaster County.

1790 - Census: Dauphin County, PA

Footnotes:

1) 1790 - Census: John Greatenhoar Household

1813, Feb 16 - DAUPHIN lost to the creation of LEBANON. (Pa. Laws 1812-1813, ch. 52, sec. 1/p. 67)

1821, Mar 29 - DAUPHIN lost to LEBANON. (Pa. Laws 1820-1821, ch. 83, sec. 1/p. 145)

1829, Mar 23 - Boundary between DAUPHIN and LEBANON clarified [no change]. (Pa. Laws 1828-1829, no. 79, sec. 1/p. 101)

1868, Mar 21 - DAUPHIN lost small area to PERRY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1868_pt. for location]. (History of . . . the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, 2:943, 1072; Pa. Laws 1868, no. 375, sec. 1/pp. 413-414)

Sources:

The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, Chicago, IL. Pennsylvania, Dauphin County Chronology. View @ Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Roll: M637_8. Page 194: John Greatenhoar household.

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