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Index to the journal of the first House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1808.
Call Number
Yeates Book 41 1808
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Index for 1790-1
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by J. Bioren, No. 88, Chesnut Street.
Date of Publication
1808.
Physical Description
[26] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 41 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. - General Assembly. - House of Representatives.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 41 1808
Websites
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A treatise upon the law of mortgages

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Author
Powell, John Joseph,
Edition
2nd ed. rev. and corr. by the author.
Date of Publication
1787.
Call Number
Book 287 1787
Alternate Title
Powell's law of mortgages
Responsibility
by John Joseph Powell.
Author
Powell, John Joseph,
Edition
2nd ed. rev. and corr. by the author.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
His Majesty's Law Printers,
Date of Publication
1787.
Physical Description
xx, 571 pages
Notes
Book number 287 as assigned by Yeates.
Spine title: Powell's law of mortgages.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Subjects
Mortgages - England.
Mortgages.
England.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 287 1787
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Reports of cases adjudged in the superior courts of law and equity of the State of North Carolina, from the year 1789, to the year [1806]

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Corporate Author
North Carolina. Superior Courts.
Date of Publication
1799-1806.
Call Number
Book 304 1799
  2 websites  
Responsibility
by John Haywood.
Corporate Author
North Carolina. Superior Courts.
Place of Publication
Halifax
Publisher
Printed by Abraham Hodge,
Date of Publication
1799-1806.
Physical Description
2 volumes 22 cm
Notes
Vol. 1: 1789-1798; v. 2: 1797-1806.
Vol. 2 has title: Reports of cases adjudged in the superior courts of law and equity, Court of Conference, and Federal court. For the State of North Carolina. Raleigh, Printed by William Boylan, 1806.
"Vol. 2 Haywood contains a number of decisions in the United States Circuit Court, delivered chiefly by Judge Marshall, 1802-1805"--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Library lacks volume 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 304 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - North Carolina.
Equity - North Carolina.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
North Carolina.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Haywood, John,
Marshall, John,
Yeates, Jasper
Additional Corporate Author
North Carolina. Court of Conference.
United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
Book 304 1799
Websites
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Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1803.
Call Number
Book 313 1803
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1802-03)
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by George Helmbold, Jun.,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
pages [287]-688, [30] ; 22 cm
Notes
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 313 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index.
vol 5.
Library copy contains a second handwritten index of 60 pages.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislation - Pennsylvania.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Legislation.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 313 1803
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A new abridgement of the law, alphabetically digested under proper titles

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Author
Bacon, Matthew,
Edition
6th ed. rev. and corr.;
Date of Publication
1793-1801.
Call Number
Book 339 1801
Book 338 1801
Author
Bacon, Matthew,
Edition
6th ed. rev. and corr.;
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
L. White,
Date of Publication
1793-1801.
Physical Description
7 volumes
Notes
"An appendix to Bacon's New abridgement of the law ... by Henry Gwillim": v. 6-7.
Library has the appendix, volumes 6 and 7.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Books number 338 and 339 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain.
Law.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gwillim, Henry,
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 339 1801
Book 338 1801
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The Englishman's right : a dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman, plainly setting forth I. The antiquity, II. The excellent designed use, III. The office and just privileges of juries by the law of England

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Author
Hawles, John,
Date of Publication
Printed in the year MDCCLXXI [1771]
Call Number
Book 445 1783
Responsibility
by Sir John Hawles, Knight, Solicitor-General to the late King William.
Author
Hawles, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
Printed in the year MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description
vi, [2], 51, [1] p. ; 16 cm (12mo)
Notes
"This treatise has passed through many editions. It appeared first in the year 1680 ... and is now presented to the public at least for the eighth time. ...": Advertisement to the reader, p. [1], 2nd group of paging.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁶ F².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 445 as assigned by Yeates.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
English Short Title Catalogue,
Subjects
Jury - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Jury.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Half leather linen (Binding)
Additional Author
Pennypacker, Samuel W.
Jefferson, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper
Additional Corporate Author
Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 445 1783
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The acts of the General assembly, of the common-wealth of Pennsylvania, enacted into laws, since the Declaration of independence on the fourth day of July, A.D. 1776

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1779.
Call Number
Book 584 1779
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Dunlap,
Date of Publication
1779.
Physical Description
1 preliminary leaf, [68] pages, 1 leaf 31 cm
Notes
Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, A-M², 3 leaves unsigned, P-S².
Page [1], caption title: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the First General assembly, of Pennsylvania, which began at Philadelphia, November 28, 1776, and was continued by adjournments to March 21, 1777.
Page [51], caption title: Laws enacted in the second sitting of the First General assembly, of the common-wealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, the twelfth day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and continued to the nineteenth day of June in the same year.
"A reprint of the first two sessions on a smaller page than the original editions, unpaged, and with a general title page."--Evans, American bibl. #16427.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 584 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Sabin
Contents
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
Bound with the Laws enacted in the second General Assembly of the Representatives of the Freemen of the Common-weatlh of Pennsylvania, Lancaster: ,John Dunlap, 1778 - Laws enacted in the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which met at Philadelphia,... Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1778 - Laws enacted in the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennshylvania, Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1778 - Laws enacated by the second sitting of the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylania..., 1779; Laws enacted in the third sitting of the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania..., 1779; - Laws enacted in the first sitting of the fourth General Assembly of the Commonweath of Pennsylvania...1779; Laws enacted in the second sitting of the fourth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,...1780 - Laws enacted by the third sitting of the fourth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennylvania...1780.- Hand-written index to the laws enacted by the General Assembly of the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania since the Declaration of Independence.
Subjects
Constitutions - Pennsylvania
Decorated boards with stamped title (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 584 1779
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Debates of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, on the Constitution, proposed for the government of the United States. In two volumes. ... Taken ... in short-hand, by Thomas Lloyd. (Proceedings and Debates of the (Twelfth) General Assembly of Pennsylvania, etc.)

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Date of Publication
1788.
Call Number
Book 593 1788
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Joseph James,
Date of Publication
1788.
Physical Description
1 volume 8vo
Notes
Vol. 1. only. No more published.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 593 as assigned by Yeates.
Other titles bound between pages 320 and 321 of the Debates of the convention of Pennsyvania vol 1.
Bound with Debates of the general assembly of Pennsylvania. ...Philadelphia: Printed for the editor, MDCCLXXXIII [1788]; - Debates and other proceedings of the convention of Virginia...to which is prefixed the Federal Constation, Petersbjurg: Hunter and Prentiss, MDCC:XXXVIII (1788)
Subjects
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
LLOYD, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 593 1788
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A treatise of captures in war

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Author
Lee, Richard
Edition
Second edition, corrected, with additional notes.
Date of Publication
1803.
Call Number
Book 707 1803
Responsibility
by Richard Lee, Esq.
Author
Lee, Richard
Edition
Second edition, corrected, with additional notes.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, Portugal-street, Lincoln's inn,
Date of Publication
1803.
Physical Description
viii, 240 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Printer's colophon, p. 240: W. Flint, printer, Old Bailey, London.
"An enlarged translation of the principal part of Bynkershoek's 'Questiones juris publici'"--"Advertisement to the second edition", p. [iii]. The 1st ed. was published in 1759.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Q⁸.
Advertisements on p. iv.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 797 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Capture at sea.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding0
Additional Author
Bijnkershoek, Cornelis van,
Flint, W.
Yeates, Jasper
Additional Corporate Author
W. Clarke and Sons.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 707 1803
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Collection
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Title
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Object ID
MG0205
Date Range
1699-1934
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Collection
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Title
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Description
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.
Date Range
1699-1934
Year Range From
1699
Year Range To
1934
Date of Accumulation
1699-1934
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 05
People
Atkinson, Matthew
Bausman, William
Bond, Phineas
Bowman, Valentine
Bradford, W.
Brien, Edward
Burd, Edward
Carson, John
Coates, Samuel
Conyngham, David
Conyngham, Elizabeth Yeates
Conyngham, Redmond
Dallas, George M.
Davis, Jonathan
Davison, Benjamin
Dickey, Robert
Duncannon, Thomas
Edward, Thomas
Erter, Henry
Ewing, John
Ferguson, John
Fohren, Michael
Gibson, John
Gillchrist, John
Godcharles, Frederic A.
Graff, Conrad
Gregg, Andrew
Grubb, Peter
Hamilton, Charles
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, John
Hamilton, William
Hand, Edward
Hand, Jasper
Hayes, A. L.
Henry, John
Hess, David
Jago, John
Javin, William
Keeportz, Daniel
Kittera, William
Kremer, Philip
Krug, Jacob
Kurtz, William
Lindsay, William
Loudersmith, Wendel
Lyon, Joseph Barnet
Magaw, David
Marshall, J.
McClellan, John
McKean, Thomas
Millar, John
Miller, Michael
Minich, Henry
Muhlenberg, William Augustus
Nesbitt, John
Nissley, Martin
Ord, John
Philips, David
Postlethwaite, John
Poultney, Thomas
Price, Eli K.
Probst, John
Ramsey, Robert
Rawle, William
Riegart, Adam
Rine, Widow
Ross, George
Ross, J.
Scott, James
Sergeant, Thomas
Shippen, Edward
Shippen, Evans Wallis
Shippen, Robert
Simpson, John
Smith, Charles
Smith, Mary Yeates
Stein, Charles
Steinman, Fredrick
Stevenson, Henry
Stewart, Charles
Sturmii, Johannis Christophorus
Thomas, John
Tilghman, Benjamin C.
Tilghman, E.
Tilghman, Edward
Tilghman, William
Tilghman, William B.
Towson, William
Underwood, John
Wallace, George
Wallace, William
Waln, Nicholas
Warden, J.
White, William
Wickersham, Elijah
Willson, Samuel
Yeates, Catharine
Yeates, Jasper
Yeates, Jasper, Jr.
Yeates, John, Jr.
Yeates, John, Sr.
Yeates, Margaret
Yeates, Sarah Burd "Sally"
Zantzinger, Paul
Subjects
Business records
Deeds
Family records
Law libraries
Letters
Library catalogs
Wills
Search Terms
Business records
Correspondence
Deeds
Family records
Finding aids
Letters
Manuscript groups
Wills
Extent
6 boxes, 49 folders, 13 books, 6 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0205
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Copies
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Yeates, Aungst Collection (MG0206)
Yeates, Carson Collection (MG0207)
George M. Steinman Collection (MG0184)
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library
Objects in the Curatorial Collection
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-205
Classification
MG0205
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.
Documents
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