Digges Choice 1724-1800
- Author: Jan Bankert. Foreword by Rev. Frederick S. Weiser
- SKU: 1635
- ISBN: 0897252438
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(YORK & ADAMS CO., PA) DIGGES CHOICE 1724-1800; a history of land transactions in York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. By Jan Bankert. Foreword by Rev. Frederick S. Weiser. Appendices of baptismal records 1730s-1740s and of tax lists. Every Name Index. 2000 (1996).
This ground-breaking book sets forth in great detail the origins of almost all parcels of land within a tract of 10,500 acres originally called Digges Choice. Today this land falls within the area of the borough of Hanover, Penn Township and Heidelberg Township in York County, and Conewago, Germany, and Union Townships in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
John Digges, a Roman Catholic from Maryland, was granted 10,000 acres in 1727 by Charles Calvert, fourth Lord Baltimore of Maryland. The land Digges chose for his grant fell within the broader land dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland. As a result of that dispute, land titles and records are very imperfect, and it is difficult if not impossible for genealogists and historians to determine who were the first settlers and when they came.
The area quickly became an unusual and early melting pot of Catholic, Reformed, Mennonite and Lutheran settlers, living side by side in harmony.
