Collection includes waste books and an account book from the Salisbury Store, Justice of the Peace dockets, child's school exercise books, receipts, summons, letters, and other papers.
This collection contains papers and local government records related to Black history in Lancaster County, including an index to Lancaster County's register of enslaved persons, Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons or Negro Entry Book, and a biographical account of Rev. James William Charles Pennington. There are official records for enslaved persons and their children in Lancaster County, as well as freemen within Lancaster City. The collection also contains a manumission paper from the state of Virginia, a certificate for free persons of color, and letters from anit-slavery societies.
System of Arrangement
Series 1 consists of the "Slave Registers," official county records registering enslaved women and their children after 1780.
Series 2 contains the "Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons," a manumission paper, correspondence, and other records.
1 box, 33 folders, 128 items, 1,178 pages to scan, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0240
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Black History Collection (MG0240), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this collection reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org prior to visit. Restricted access for the Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons found in Series 2, Folder 2: Use transcript in Folder 3 or microfilm.
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-240
Classification
MG0240
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
The collection was formerly called "The Slave Records of Lancaster County Collection." Name changed to "African American Records Collection" and arrangement changed on 13 June 2007. Name changed again in 2022 to "Black History Collection."
Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery : beginning in the sittings after Hilary term 29 Geo. III. A.D. 1789, and ending [in the sittings after Trinity term 35 Geo. III. A.D. 1795]
Vol. 20: A digested index to the nineteen volumes of Mr. Vesey's reports of cases in the High court of chancery ... by a barrister. Philadelphia, Carey, 1822.
v. 1. The cases from the beginning of Easter term, 1802 to the end of Easter term, 1804 -- v. 2. The cases from the beginning of Trinity term, 1804 to the period of Lord Redesdale's resignation of the Great Seal [i.e. 1807].
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
A practical treatise on the law of nations, relative to the legal effect of war on the commerce of belligerents and neutrals : and on orders in council and licenses
by Joseph Chitty, Esquire. Of the Middle Temple. To which are added, extracts from Grotius, Bynkershoek, and Vattel: also, the letter of Sir William Scott, and of the Duke of Newcastle, &c. containing matters applicable to the law of prize.
Reports of cases determined at nisi prius, in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and on the home circuit : from the sittings after Michaelmas term 48 Geo. III. 1807, to the sittings after [Hilary term, 56 Geo. III. 1816] both inclusive
Vol. 2 has title: Reports of cases determined at nisi prius, in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and on the circuits ...
Vols. 3-4 have title: Reports of cases determined at nisi prius, in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and on the circuit ... to which are added notes referring to the American authorities: by Samuel Howe ... New York, S. Gould; 1821.
Book plate of James Louis Petigrul, v. 1-3.
"May be regarded as a continuation of Espinasse's reports."--Marvin's Legal bibliography.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 817-and 918 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
V. 1. From the sittings after Michmaelmas [sic] term, 48 Geo. III. 1807, to the sittings after Michaelmas term, 49 Geo. III. 1808 -- v. 2. From the sittings after Hilary term, 49 Geo. III. 1809, to the sittings before Easter term, 51 Geo. III. 1811.
