Our society provides library services
to the general public. This library includes many reference materials
and volumes of historical information dating from the colonial
period.
We have accumulated hundreds of deeds describing properties
from our area as well as many files on other historical structures.
Our deeds are listed by names of grantors and grantees. In
addition, the library includes a surname vertical file. Also,
we have many
wills from the colonial period, indexed alphabetically by name.
Our resources include church records of our region, census
records and many newspaper articles of historical interest.
Stop by to
view our numerous resources.
We have roughly 600 pictures with detailed descriptions, indexed
by surname, location, church records, township, and borough.
CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS
St. Paul's Union Church, Amityville, 1754 - 1911
Births, Marriages, Deaths
St. Paul's Cemetery, Amityville
St. Gabriel's Episcopal 1753 - 1959
St. Gabriel's Cemetery
St. Gabriel's History
Salem Reformed Church, Spangsville, Oley Twp., 1763 - 1856 Salem Reformed Church
Cemetery, Spangsville
Quaker Exeter Monthly Meeting Records Vol. II
Quaker Robeson Monthly Meeting Records beginning 1789 Quaker Robeson Burial
Ground
Plow Union Church, Robeson Twp., 1770 - 1958
Trinity Reformed Pottstown, Montgomery County 1770 - 1865 Emmanuel Lutheran,
Pottstown 1777 - 1872
Emmanuel Lutheran & Zion's Union Church Cemeteries
New Hanover Lutheran, Montgomery Co.
DEEDS
Numerous deeds indexed by grantor & grantee, Amity Twp.
FAMILY HISTORIES
Ball Cousins by Margaret Kinsey
Indexed by surname, random |
MAPS
Amity, Exeter, Robeson
1854
Amity, Exeter, Robeson 1862
Amity, Exeter, Robeson 1876
Amity Township
1850
TAX RECORDS
Amity Township tax records for 1731, 1752, 1754,
1767, 1768, 1772, 1779 1780, 1781, 1784, 1785, 1786
Landholders
in Amity Township 1734
WILLS
Numerous Amity Township
wills prior to 1800
CENSUS
Amity Township 1790 & 1850
HISTORIES
Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Berks County by
Biographical Publishing Co.
Amity Township Bicentennial Souvenir
Book - 1976
Amity Township 250th Anniversary Book 1719 - 1969
Fragments of
the Past (Oley) by Peter Bertolet
The Petitioners ( signatures
of persons petitioning to have townships formed) by James Beidler,
Florence Heydt, Annette Burgert
NEWSPAPERS
Berks & Schuylkill
Journal Death Abstracts 1816 - 1832 |