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William Grotehouse of Mifflin, PA Collection Are you a descendant of William Grotehouse? Please join us in our efforts to better document this family by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point. We are currently rebuilding our database on this family along with all the others. We hope to have them back online soon. In the mean time we have provided the following biographical sketches on what we currently know about the first few generations of this family.
These original documents are hosted at Footnote.com, where you can use their document viewers to print out the documents for your own records. In order to print any documents at Footnote.com, you will need to register for one of their free accounts. Notes: The first assessment book for Mifflin County, covering 1789-1794, appears to be missing from the vault in the assessor's office. Fortunately, Dr. Charles Eater made an exact transcription of this book many years ago, so the assessments shared above rely on his manuscript. The second assesment book, covering 1795-1799, has been missing for over 130 years and there is no known transcription of it. The original assessement books, therefore begin with the third book in 1799. The assessment book from 1828-1831 is also missing, and in 1831, Greenwood Township, was part of the territory that was taken out of Mifflin County and placed into the newly formed Juniata County. Records from 1831 forward, therefore, are to be found at the county seat in Mifflintown, Juniata County. (Unfortunately - as a historical note - the town of Mifflintown suffered a devastating fire around New Years Eve, 1869 - a fire so great that the glow could be seen in the sky from Centre Hall, some 50 miles away and across two mountain ranges. The Juniata County courthouse was destroyed in this fire. Many Juniata County records seem to have survived the fire, however, as there are estate books there back into the 1840's, and assessment books dating as far back as 1847 in a courthouse annex.) Source: Letter from Justin Houser to Rick Greathouse, 13 May 2008. Summary of William Grotehouse Research Findings in Mifflin County, PA.
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