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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction, respecting, the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general states, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix

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Author: Proud, Robert,

Date of Publication: 1797-1798.

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1797

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Responsibility: written principally between the years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud.

Author: Proud, Robert,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,

Date of Publication: 1797-1798.

Physical Description: 2 v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Library has: vol. 1.; Full leather binding with red spine label stamped in gold.; Bookplate of Redmond Conygnham, No. 2435.; Evans

Contents: I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709.--II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Society of Friends.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Sweden - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1797

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The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers, with the first rise of the neighbouring Colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is added a brief description of the said province, and the general state in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760-1770 ... With an appendix. Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780

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Author: Proud, Robert,

Date of Publication: 1798.

Call Number: 974.802 P968

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Author: Proud, Robert,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by Z. Poulson,

Date of Publication: 1798.

Physical Description: 2 v. map (on lining papers), port. 22 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania heritage series

Notes: Photoreproduction. Spartanburg, S.C., Reprint Co., 1967.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718; Society of Friends.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Sweden - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 P968

Websites

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000027692288&view=1up&seq=11

Reports of cases relative to the duty and office of a Justice of the Peace, from Michaelmas term 1776, inclusive, to Michaelmas term 1785, inclusive

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Author: Caldecott, Thomas.

Date of Publication: 1790.

Call Number: Book 812 1790

Responsibility: by Thomas Caldecott.

Author: Caldecott, Thomas.

Place of Publication: Dublin

Publisher: Printed for John Millikin,

Date of Publication: 1790.

Physical Description: [8], 388 [i.e. 392] pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Four pages containing "A table of the names of the cases" are inserted before the last two pages of text.; Reprint of the London edition, 1790.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 912 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Justices of the peace - Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Justices of the peace.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 812 1790

Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court

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Corporate Author: Connecticut. Superior Court.

Date of Publication: 1798-1802.

Call Number: Book 401 1802; Book 400 1798

Responsibility: By Jesse Root.

Corporate Author: Connecticut. Superior Court.

Place of Publication: Hartford

Publisher: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin,

Date of Publication: 1798-1802.

Physical Description: 2 volumes 23 cm

Notes: Title page of v. 2 varies slightly.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 400 and 401 as assigned by Yeates.

Contents: V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.

Summary: "With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - Connecticut.; Court rules - Connecticut.; Law - Connecticut.; Court rules.; Law.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Connecticut.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)

Additional Author: Root, Jesse,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 401 1802; Book 400 1798

The Pennsylvania state trials: : containing the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, and John Nicholson, Esquires. The former being judge of the Court of Admiralty, and the latter, the comptroller-general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Vol. I. : [One line in Latin from Virgil]

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Author: Hopkinson, Francis,

Date of Publication: M, DCC, XCIV [i.e. 1795].

Call Number: Book 599 1795

Author: Hopkinson, Francis,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, for Edmund Hogan.,

Date of Publication: M, DCC, XCIV [i.e. 1795].

Physical Description: xii, 776 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Dedication signed: Edmund Hogan. Philadelphia, January, 1795.; No more published.; Signatures: piâ¶ [A]â´ B-5Eâ´.; Errors in paging: p. viii, 559 misnumbered iii, 549.; "The names of the subscribers."--Page [ix]-xii.; "An account of the impeachment and trial of the late Francis Hopkinson ..."--Page [1]-62, with separate title page.; "An account of the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of John Nicholson ..."--Page [65]-772, with separate title page.; "An alphabetical list of the letters, official documents, witnesses ... published in this volume, from page 5 to page 772, inclusively."--Page [733]-776.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 599 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans

Subjects: Trials (Impeachment) - Pennsylvania.; Impeachments - Pennsylvania.; Impeachments.; Trials (Impeachment); Pennsylvania.; Subscribers' lists.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Nicholson, John,; Hogan, Edmund,; Bailey, Francis,; Yeates, Jasper

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 599 1795

The Independent gazetteer, or, The chronicle of freedom

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Date of Publication: 1782-1790.

Call Number: Newspaper 9 1782-1783; Newspaper 10 1783-1785; Newspaper 14 1785-1786; Newspaper 15 1786-1787; Newspaper 16 1787-1788; Newspaper 17 1788-1789; Newspaper 18 1789-1890

Alternate Title: Independent gazetteer; Chronicle of freedom

ISSN: 2575-0801

Place of Publication: Philadelphia [Pa.]

Publisher: E. Oswald,

Date of Publication: 1782-1790.

Physical Description: volumes ; 29 cm

Publication Frequency: Daily (except Sunday), Oct. 7, 1786-Jan. 9, 1790

Dates of Publication: No. 1 (Apr. 13, 1782)-no. 199 (Aug. 20, 1785) ; vol. 4, no. 200 (Aug. 27, 1785)-v. 9, no. 1270 (Jan. 9, 1790).

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; No signature.; Newspaper 9-10 as assigned by LHO.; Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers

Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.) - Newspapers.; Philadelphia County (Pa.) - Newspapers.; Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Pennsylvania - Philadelphia County.; Newspapers.; Periodicals.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding); Typed label affixed to spine (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Newspaper 9 1782-1783; Newspaper 10 1783-1785; Newspaper 14 1785-1786; Newspaper 15 1786-1787; Newspaper 16 1787-1788; Newspaper 17 1788-1789; Newspaper 18 1789-1890

Archive

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

life. 21 October 1827. Letter to Stephen Slaymaker from Adam Reigart commenting on the goodness of God and the whereabouts of many people. 27 September 1828. Letter from Stephen Slaymaker in Lancaster to his wife, Susan at Margaretta Furnace, York County. Regarding the death of Adam and news of family

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732

Date of Publication: 1792.

Call Number: Book 666 1792

Alternate Title: Conductor generalis; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace

Responsibility: compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed for Robert Campbell,

Date of Publication: 1792.

Physical Description: xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: A-2Gâ¸.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,

Subjects: Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.; Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.; Coroners - Early works to 1800.; Constables - Early works to 1800.; Jury - Early works to 1800.; Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.; Constables.; Coroners.; Fines and recoveries.; Internal revenue law.; Jury.; Justices of the peace.; Militia.; Sheriffs.; United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.; New York (State); Pennsylvania.; United States.; Early works.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Parker, James,; Gentleman of the law.; Burn, Richard,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 666 1792

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

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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

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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16384

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3553

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Reports of cases relative to the duty and office of a Justice of the Peace, from Michaelmas term 1776, inclusive, to Michaelmas term 1785, inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22089

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21124

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21669

The Independent gazetteer, or, The chronicle of freedom

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22179

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/8b950e59-596d-4ffd-bc86-444331137484

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Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732

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]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21066

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