AREA HISTORY:  Old Roads, Codorus Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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OLD ROADS – Page 698

In 1758 a road was run from Daniel Diehl’s mill in Codorus to Nelson’s (now 
McCall’s) Ferry.  The following petition is signed by some of the first settlers 
of the township:

TO THE WORSHIPFUL HIS MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK MET 
AT YORK THE LAST TUESDAY OF JULY, 1760. 

This Petition of the Inhabitants of Codorus Township and parts adjacent humbly 
Sheweth

That a great Road is much wanted from York Town towards Baltimore Town as far as 
the Temporary line.  That a Road has been laid out part of the way but not 
finished.

Your petitioners humbly pray that proper Persons may be appointed to review the 
ground and lay out a Road from George Myer’s Plantation by the Widow Links to 
the Temporary Line (see page 75 in this book) where Tobias Amspoker junr. lately 
dwelt, there being now a good Road in the Maryland Side of the Line from said 
Amspoker’s late dwelling Plantation to Baltimore Town aforesaid.

                       And your Petitioner’s will pray.

Michel Myer                              Michel Miller
Philip Zeigler                           Michel Wunord
Michel Ham                               Nicholas Vogel
Michel Beissel                           George Meyer
Jacob Hover                              Peter Wolf
Ludwig Rieser                            Nicholas Schrom
Ludwig Huber                             Nicholas Loenig
Jacob Soeller                            Jacob Ob (Upp)
Johannes Weller                          David Hamsspacker
George Keller                            Jacob Hoak
Ulrich Huber                             Casper Kinsser
Daniel Cramer                            Daniel Diehl.