A Guide to the Papers of the Bantz family (and others) of Frederick, Md. and Winchester, Va., 1740-1910 #8884-e

Scope and Content

Collections of the Winchester, Va., and Frederick, Md., family include account books of T. Marion Bantz, Gideon Bantz, John M. Miller, and John Leight, extensive history and genealogy of area families (some relating to German settlements in Maryland and the Crouse family in Adams County, Pa.), correspondence, indentures, and miscellaneous accounts.

Also included are order books, morning reports, and miscellaneous reports of several companies of the First Regiment Michigan Infantry, 1861-1862, and other miscellaneous war papers including material from the U.S Christian Commission.

Of interest is a letter from R. F. Weir, General Hospital, Frederick, Md., 1864 November 21 concerning the lack of Thanksgiving dinner for soldiers.

Other assorted materials include an 1871 War Department weather map, an 1880 recipe book of Julia Ann Derkehart, a loan record book, 1846-1847, of the Frederick-town Branch Bank., clipping scrapbook of the travels of Bishop Thomas Bowman in Europe, 1865 income tax forms, and 1835 astronomical maps. Also included is copy of a 1794 surveyor's plat of Winchester, Va., and various advertisements.

Contents List

Series I: Family Papers

Box 1
Miscellaneous letters, notes, pieces in German 1740-1806

17 items;

Mostly to Philip Hoover (Phillippe Huber, Hoober); also two letters in English
Box 1
Indentures 1777-1840; 1876

14 items
Box 1
Articles of Agreement 1780-1840

24 items
Box 1
Two sections of German newspapers 1796

2 items
Box 1
Letter: A discourse on the Clock; "Dear Friend" from "Gaillard" 1798 Sept. 8

10 p.
Box 1
"A Method for Gilding" n.d.

1 item
Box 1
Miscellaneous accounts, vouchers, of Philip Hoover or Lewis Hartman, Frederick Co., Virginia 1800-1830

ca. 15 items
Box 1
Bills, receipts ca. 1790-1830

ca. 40 items
Box 1
"Mother parden me for not wrighing to you suner..."; Letter, George Bentley to his Mother 1817 Oct. 22

3 p.;

re: money & legal problems & general tales of woe
Box 1
Miscellaneous plats, surveys, titles to lands, Frederick and Winchester Co. ca. 1820-1860

7 items
Box 1
Bills, receipts 1830-1870

ca. 30 items
Box 1
Misc. letters 1840-1866

5 items
Box 1
Bills, receipts, accounts ca. 1840-1860

ca. 50 items
Box 1
Bills, receipts; 15 pamphlets, "Soldiers Series" (homilies), & obviously later date n.d.

22 items
Box 1
Bills, accounts 1870s and after

ca. 50 items
Box 1
Miscellany - photograph, map, and article, "The Use of Soil Surveys," & certificate ca. 1900

4 items
Box 2
Accounts & statements to the Court 1752 July 27, Aug. 7
Box 2
Subpoena for John Armstrong from Frederick Co. 1764 Dec. 4

1 p.
Box 2
Record of the Frederick Co., Md., Court 1767 Aug.

14 p. (torn in half)
Box 2
Account Book n.d.

14 pp.
Box 2
Arithmetic Book n.d.

ca. 33 pp.
Box 2
Workbook for Plane Trigonometry and Surveying by Gideon Bantz 1829

ca. 200 pp.
Box 2
Summonses, bills, & receipts ca. 1840-1850

ca. 200 items
Box 2
Memorandum & Account Book 1894

3 items
Box 2
Acts of Parliament ca. 1661, 18th or 19th century

6 folders;

Bundles of Acts of Parliament, appearing to be later reprints of the originals. They seem to cover the period of Edward IV (& possibly sooner) to George II.
Box 3
Cookbook of Julia Ada Derkehart 1880 Jan.

ca. 200 pp.
Box 3
Notebook originally of a Baltimore Fire Company, now filled with genealogy, mechanics, etc. n.d.

ca. 100 pp.
Box 3
Notebook including genealogy, history, mechanics, etc. 1872-1895

ca. 100 pp.
Box 3
Cookbook by Julian Hartman ca. 1830-1831

ca. 150 pp.
Box 3
Scrap-album: Newspaper clippings from religious publications ca. 1878

ca. 30 pp.
Box 4
Account Book of Gideon Bantz's estate 1854-1893

ca. 200 pp.
Box 4
U.S. Christian Commission - Delegate's Notebook belonging to Gideon Bantz 1864-1865

111 p.
Box 4
Notes on the History of New Jersey, Delaware & Virginia n.d.

2p. ANS
Box 4
Notes on the Estate of Gideon Bantz by John E.R. Wood, auditor 1887-1892

2 p. ADS
Box 4
Marion Bantz to his Mother 1865 Feb. 2

2 p. ALS
Box 4
Account book of G. Bantz Jr., for estate of G. Bantz 1854-1864

ca. 200 p.
Box 4
Land sale agreement 1816 Dec. 2

4p. ADS
Box 4
Account book of T. Marion Bantz 1868-1873

ca. 75 p.
Box 4
Account Book of G. Bantz as guardian to Ne Doll heirs 1855-1865

ca. 100 p.
Box 4
Misc. notes on the Bantz family 1858-1863

ca. 150 p.
Box 4
Account Book of Gideon Bantz 1849-1857

ca. 300 p.
Box 4
Account Book of Gideon Bantz 1862-1901

ca. 200 p.
Box 4
Printed vol.: Loan Record book of the Frederick Town Bank 1846 June 17, 1847 Sept. 29

ca. 200 p.
Box 5
Account Book of T. Marion Bantz, Winchester, Va. 1898 Jan. 1-1905 July 15

ca. 200 pp.
Box 5
Account Book of John M. Miller, Middletown Mills 1852-1859

ca. 250 pp.
Box 5
Report of Through Ticket Sales at (05) Office, Richmond 1875 Dec.-1876 Apr.

296 p., only p.1 used
Box 5
Account Book of John Leight 1837 Sept.-Nov.

ca. 300 p.
Box 6
Crouse family history & genealogy, Adams Co., Pennsylvania ca. 1750-ca. 1850

37 pp.
Box 6
Genalogical information concerning many (German immigrants), families, seeming primarily in Maryland (Frederick) area ca. 1700-1900

3 items, ca. 250 pp.
Box 6
Lutheran Church Records; Family history, genealogy ca. 1700-1900

ca. 150 pp.
Box 6
Family Records ca. 1750-1870

5 items;

Item headings as follows: John Ives Hartman; "Old Defender's War 1814"; Eagle, Keller, & Smith families; "Genealogy of Brunners"; "Genealogy of the Sinns"
Box 6
Family history & Genealogy ca. 1740-1860

10 items, ca. 150 pp.;

Item headings: "Merche nov Markell"; "Black Horse Hotel (Jacob Schmidt)"; "Cigar-maker - green grocer (Kline)"; "Paper-maker - Farmer (John William Birely)"; "Farmer - (Wm Smith)"; "John Lachlan Harding"; "Bantz Family"; "Balthazar Fo[ret]"; "Sinn Family"; "Hugh Fisher, Engineer"; seems to be information relating to German settlements in Maryland.
List or indexes [to genealogical records?] ca. 1850s
Physical Location: Oversize
2 items, ca. 25 pp.;

booklets in cardboard binding containing lists of names followed by numbers

Series II: Correspondence

Box 7
Letter, R.F. of the General Hospital in Frederick, Md. to Mrs. G. Bantz 1864 Nov. 21

1 p. and lettercover;

re inability to provide soldiers with a Thanksgiving meal, due to hospital debts
Box 7
Letter, Gideon Bantz to Messeurs Fisher & Co., St. Louis 1879 Jan. 30

1 p., draft;

informing them that they have mistaken him for another Bantz in St. Louis and that he owes no debts. On verso: a blank patent form for "improved horse power."
Box 7
Letter, Duttera and Buckley, Tanners and Dealers in leather, hides, etc. of Gettysburg to Ernest Bantz of Frederick 1887 Aug. 1

2 p. and lettercover
Box 7
Lettter, [T] Marion [Bantz], Winchester, to Ernest Bantz, Frederick City 1887 Aug. 15

1 p. and lettercover
Box 7
Draft of letter, unfinished and unsigned to Marion [Bantz] n.d., 18__

re inventory of property and plans for public sale, an advertisement for a tanner and the health of Ann [?]; composed on a section of an official Morning Attendance Report which bears the signature of J.B. Kennedy and J.E. Songley
Box 7
Court statement of land sale to David Mainhart with note at bottom to "My dear friend" n.d.

2 p.;

On verso draft of letter, unsigned, to "My very kind friend" re burial of Mrs. Towers

Series III: Miscellaneous Papers

Box 7
Miscellaneous accounts, bills, receipts, vouchers, etc. 1792-1859

13 items
Box 7
Miscellaneous accounts, bills, receipts, vouchers, etc. 1860-1890

12 items
Box 7
Miscellaneous papers 1861-1864

1 p. ANS; ANS

re government military hospitals including 2 passes admitting Gideon Bantz into hospitals in Alexandria and Frederick; Moses Gunn certifying that E. Griffith Carn is unable to attend fort due to illness; noting the hospitalization of John B. Payne and one card permit explaining rules and regulations in Frederick City, Md.
Box 7
Delegate's reports and printed matter re the U.S. Christian Commission ca. 1861-1864

9 items
Box 7
Clothing and supply lists and a list of men participating in a raffle of the watch of a wounded comrade 1862 July 18, n.d.

3 items
Box 7
Descriptive list and account of pay and clothing of Private William E. Hyslop, Company "G," First Regiment, Michigan Infantry 1862 Aug. 14

2 p.
Box 7
Miscellaneous attendance records and list of soldiers ca. 1862-1865

including notes on number killed and wounded; also reporting forms, leave passes and Treasury Department rules for discharge and bounty
Box 7
Miscellaneous accounts, bills, receipts and notes re tanning trade 1864-1887

5 items
Box 7
Advertisements, Continental Fire Company, New York, and Perry and Boley's anti-friction pump ca. 1866-1910

4 items
Box 7
Trial record, Gideon Bantz: Exhibit "A" 1869 Feb. 2

13 p.;

complaint by Bantz against David H. and Henry W. Taylor re invention and patent of a "new and useful improvement in furnaces for heating steam boilers, etc."
Box 7
Way-Bill, Winchester to Hamilton and return, and one conductor's Way-Bill Eastward bearing note "Henry Bantz married Catharine Smith" 186_ and 1871, Oct. 1-Nov. 22

4 items
Box 7
Items re death and estate of Elizabeth Ritt, including last will and testament 1876 Apr.-May

7 items
Box 7
Autograph deed 1878 Dec. 31

2 p.;

re estate of Ann Maria Bantz signed by J.G. Bantz, executor of last will and testament
Box 7
Pages from The Baltimore Sun News and miscellaneous clippings 1889 Oct. 6, n.d.

4 p.;

re weather, inventions, religious matters, etc., origins unknown
Box 7
Blank checks and insurance notes and membership to Masons 18__

7 items
Box 7
Notification of Bankruptcy of Arthur P. Baer and Charles E. Savage with list of creditors and amounts owed n.d.

1 item
Box 7
Miscellaneous items n.d.

8 items

including wrappers for stationary, sketches, a card photograph and drawing of George Washington
Box 7
Miscellaneous scraps of paper, mostly blank, some bearing penmanship exercises n.d.