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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
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, Catherine Yeates, Jasper Yeates, Jasper, Jr. Yeates, John , Sr
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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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The history of England : during the reigns of K. William, Q. Anne, and K. George I

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18944
Author
Ralph, James,
Date of Publication
1744-46.
Call Number
Book 9 1744
Book 8 1744
Responsibility
by a lover of truth and liberty.
Author
Ralph, James,
Place of Publication
London : For F. Cogan, and T. Waller
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Browne ;
Date of Publication
1744-46.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; (fol.)
Notes
"Lover of truth and liberty" = James Ralph.--ESTC.
T.p.s in red and black.
Vol.2 t.p. reads : " ... reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George the first ... London : Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, 1746."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Books numbers 8 and 9 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
ESTC,
Subjects
Great Britain - History - 1689-1714.
Great Britain.
History.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 9 1744
Book 8 1744
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A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21666
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 496 1744
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Alternate Title
Select trials
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Anderson,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
524 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
A re-issue, with a cancel titlepage, of volume 8 of 'State trials and proceedings upon high treason'.
The imprint is probably false.
Originally published as 'A compleat collection of state-tryals'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 596 as assigned by Yeates.
Summary
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion.
Subjects
Trials - Great Britain.
Trials (Divorce) - Great Britain.
Trials (Treason) - Great Britain.
Trials (Perjury) - Great Britain.
Trials (Piracy) - Great Britain.
Trials (Murder) - Great Britain.
Trials.
Trials (Divorce)
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Perjury)
Trials (Piracy)
Trials (Treason)
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Guilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 496 1744
Websites
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of the late Lord Chancellor King. [1726-1730]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21742
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1744.
Responsibility
Collected by William Mosely. Published with notes, and many thousand references, and two tables; one, of the names of the cases; the other, of the principal matters.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by O. Nelson, for the administratrix of the author,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 441, [1] pages 33 cm
Notes
Sometimes cited as "Cases temp. King". cf. Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under signature of Geo Stevenson, 1749.
Book number 678 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
One-half leather on blue boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mosely, William,
King, Peter King,
Yeates, Jasper,
Stevenson, Geroge.
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A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21751
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Physical Description
2 volumes 33 cm
Notes
Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Subtitle of v. 2 varies.
Vol. 2 printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 696 and 697 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - England - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foley, Robert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Bacon, Matthew,
Pooley, Henry.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
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Reports of cases in equity, argued and decreed in the courts of Chancery and Exchequer, chiefly in the reign of King George I. [1705-1726] By a late learned judge

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21752
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The 2d ed.,
Date of Publication
1742.
Call Number
Book 698 1742
Responsibility
To which are added some select cases in equity, heard and determined in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. By the same hand. With two alphabetical tables; the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters contained in these Reports.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The 2d ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne, J. Shuckburgh,
Date of Publication
1742.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 275, [20] pages 35 cm
Notes
Includes (p. 267-275): The reports of a case heard and adjudged in the King's Bench in Ireland, tempore Georgii I. Dominus Rex versus Dwyer.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatuare at top of title page.
Book number 698 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.
Ireland. Court of Exchequer.
Ireland. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 698 1742
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21754
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Call Number
Book 700 1741
Book 701 1741a
Book 702 1750
Responsibility
collected by William Peere Williams ...
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
"Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."
Title varies slightly.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 700-702 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Williams, William Peere,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 700 1741
Book 701 1741a
Book 702 1750
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Reports of cases determined in the High Court of Chancery : from April 25. 1740. to May 9. 1741 ; with two tables ; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21758
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1742.
Call Number
Book 707 1742
Responsibility
by Thomas Barnardiston, Serjeant at Law.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy : And sold by W. Chinnery, in the Inner Temple Lane
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1742.
Physical Description
502, [46] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbr 707 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Barnardiston, Thomas,
Lintot, Henry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 707 1742
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Select cases argued and adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, before the late lords commissioners of the great seal and the late Lord Chancellor King. From the year 1724 to 1733. With two tables, one of the names of the cases, and the other of the principal matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21759
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1740.
Call Number
Bookk 708 1740
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling for H. Lintot, D. Browne, and J. Shuckburgh,
Date of Publication
1740.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 82, [8] pages 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 708 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
King, Peter King,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 708 1740
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The clergy-man's law, or, The complete incumbent : collected from the thirty-nine articles, canons, decrees in Chancery and Exchequer, as also from all the statutes and common-law cases relating to the church and clergy of England : digested under proper heads for the benefit of patrons of churches and the parochial clergy : and will be useful to all students and practitioners of the law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21761
Author
Watson, William,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Call Number
Book 711 1747
Alternate Title
Clergyman's law, or, The complete incumbent
Clergy-man's law
Complete incumbent
Responsibility
by William Watson ... ; with a table of the contents of the chapters and another of the principal matters ; to which are added the names of the present bishops and other chief dignitaries of the Church of England.
Author
Watson, William,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for D. Midwinter, W. Innys, T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, Messrs. Longman and Shewell, J. Shuckburgh, T. Osborne, J. Worrall, C. Hitch, C. Corbett, C. Bathurst, G. Hawkins, T. Waller, A. Nutt,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description
iv, [8], 656, [64] p. ; 36 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-b² B-8U² (8U2 blank).
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 711 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Church of England - Clergy - Early works to 1800.
Church of England - Government - Early works to 1800.
Church of England.
Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Clergy.
Ecclesiastical law.
Political science.
Great Britain.
Early works.
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 711 1747
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