Leonard Hartzell Sr. ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

# Birth: 6 SEP 1776 in Hecktown, Northampton Co, Pennsylvania
# Death: 17 FEB 1824 in Menallen Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Note: Leonard was 47 years 5 months 11 days of age at the time of his death.
# Christening: 15 SEP 1776 Dryland Lutheran Church, Hecktown, Northampton Co, Pennsylvania
# Burial: Bender's Church Cemetery, Butler twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Note: According to the records at the Adams County Historical Society, Leonard Hartzell is buried in the same plot as his brother, George Hartzel, who died December 12, 1838 at age 66-11-12. Bender's Church was established in 1781 near Biglersville, Butler township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It was later abandoned.
# Census: Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Census: 1800 Menallen Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Note:

1800 Census, Menallen twp, Adams Co, PA
Leonard Hartzel
1 Male under 10
1 Male 26-44
1 Female 16-25

# Census: 1820 Menallen Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Ancestral File #: Leonard HARTZEL (AFN: 8XR1-V6)
# Reference Number: Leas GB p261
# Event: Inventory of Estate of Leonard Hartzel Estate APR 1824 Menallen Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Note:

Inventory of the Property of Leonart Hartzell
One stove and pipe ....... $7.00
One winmill ........................2.00
Sundries old iron.................. .25
Three old sadles................ .12.5
Three old pots....................... .50
Three hogsheds................. .75
Three rarles (barrels?) ...... .25
One keag (keg) and a door to a still ... .30
A lot of sawd posts ................ .44
Lot of laths......................... .75
Lot of post rails................... .25
Two tables........................... .25
One hosed.......................... .25
Two woll (wool) spinning wheels... .12.5
Three hosed............................. .75
One Cheer (chair)................. .12
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Total $ 14.11

Adams County
Personally appeared before me, William McGrew, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, Daniel Reese and Mathias Walter who being duly sworn, did depose and say that the Goods and Chattels of Leonard Hartzel, late of Menallen Township, Adams County, deceased were by them well and truly appraised to the best of their Judgment adn above list thereof...

Signed by Daniel Reese and Mathias Walter

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That we John Leas, Henry Kosser, Jacob Ziegler and Christian Chritzman all of Adams County, State of Pennsylvania are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, to be paid to the said Commonwealth. To which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves jointly and severally, for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors adn Administrators, firmly by these Presents, Sealed with our Seals, dated the twenty third day of Feby AD eighteen hundred and twenty four.

THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH THAT if the above bounden John Leis and Henry Kosser, Administrators of all and singular the goods, chattels adn credits of Leonard Hartzel late of Menallen township, Adams County, deceased, do make or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels adn credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of them the said John Leas and Henry Kosser or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for them and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Register's Office in the county of Adams, at or before the werd day of March next ensuing; and the same goods, chattels adn credits and all other the goods, chattels adn credits of the said deceased, at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said John Leas and Henry Kosser.

Or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for them do well and truly administer according to law. And further do make or cause to be made, a true and just account of their said administration at or before the twenty third day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and all the rest and residue of teh said goods, chattels and credits, which shall be found remaining upon the siad administrators account, (the same being first examined and allowed of by the Orphan's Court of the county of Adams) shall deliver and pay unto such person or persons respectively, as the said Orphan's Court, by their decree or sentence, pursuant to the true intent adn meaning of the law now in force in this Commonwealth, shall limit adn appoint. And if it shall hereafter appear, that any last Will and Testament was made by the said deceased, and the Executor or Executors, therein named do exhibit the same into the Register's Office, making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly; if the said John Leas and Henry Kosser above bounden being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of Administration, approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the Register's Office, then this Obligation to be void and of none effect ... or else to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Isaiah Dill
John Leas
Henry Kosser
Jacob Ziegler
Chris Chreitzman

# Event: Tax List 1799 Menallen Twp, Adams Co, Pennsylvania
# Note: Leonard Hartzel was a single man in Menallen twp, Adams Co, PA, assessed $1.00 tax in 1799. ⁴

Leonard married Salome "Sarah" Leas, daughter of John Leas and Sophia Ziegler, about 1799 in Heidelberg Township, York County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Salome "Sarah" Leas was born on 28 Dec 1782 in Reading Towship, York County, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 24 Nov 1872 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA ².)