Details
Creator Gest, John, 1783-1865.
Title A profiled Friends grave yard at Sadsbury in Lancaster County together with an index book of many names of our silent lead designating the several places in which they repose made and presented by John Gest to the preparative meeting of men and women Friends who hold their religious meetings in the house of where our fathers, mothers, relations and Friends congregated in worship [cartographic material].
Publisher [Sadsbury]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1815
Date [ca. 1815]
Physical Description 1 map: pencil and watercolor; sheet 64 x 76 cm (25 x 30 in.)
Description Plan of the cemetery established in 1725 near the Sadsbury Meeting House established the same year in Sadsbury Township, later Gap, PA. Shows the plots arranged in a grid bordered on three sides by "Samuel Sellers land" and the land of the Sadsbury Friends Meeting. Lands delineated with hand coloring. Also includes a pathway and a border delineated in hand coloring.
Notes Title transcribed from manuscript note on item.
Includes plot numbers and dimensions.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Biographical / historical note John Gest, was son of Joseph Gest (d. 1815), the carpenter of the second Sadsbury meeting house built in 1760.
Subject Sellers, Samuel, 1784-1851 -- Homes and haunts.
Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) -- History.
Sadsbury Friends Burial Ground (Gap, Pa.) -- Maps.
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Gap.
Genre Manuscript maps -- Hand-colored -- 1810-1820.
Pencil works -- Hand-colored -- 1810-1820.
Watercolors -- Hand-colored -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.15.21]
Accession number P.2017.15.21