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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
  1 document  
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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Tables to most of the printed presidents of pleadings, writs, and retorn of writs, at the common law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20879
Author
Townesend, George.
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1667.
Call Number
Book 71 1667
Responsibility
collected by George Townesend, a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
Author
Townesend, George.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edw. Atkyns, Esquires,
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1667.
Physical Description
[8], 554, [2] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: A-3Z⁴ 4A⁶.
Last leaf is blank.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 71 as assigned by Yeates.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Writs - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 71 1667
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Discourses concerning government

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20908
Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Edition
The 3rd ed /
Date of Publication
1751.
Call Number
Yeates Book 88 1751
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Algernon Sidney ; to which are added, memoirs of his life, and an apology for himself, both now first published, and the latter from his original manuscript.
Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Edition
The 3rd ed /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar,
Date of Publication
1751.
Physical Description
[4], lii, [6], [3]-495 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait
Notes
An answer to Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.
"Memoirs of Algernon Sidney, Esq."--Page [i]-xxix gathered from various authors. Cf. p. [i].
"The apology of Algernon Sidney, in the day of his death"--Page [xxx]-lii.
Publisher's advertisement (1 p.) at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page with date 1760.
Book number 88 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature,
Subjects
Filmer, Robert, - Sir, - -1653.
Political science - Early works to 1800.
Monarchy - Early works to 1800.
Republics - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1660-1688.
Additional Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Memoirs of Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 88 1751
Websites
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The statutes at large, from the first year of the reign of King George the First, to the third year of the reign of King George the Second: To which is prefixed, a table of titles of all the publick and private statutes during the time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20910
Corporate Author
Great Britain.
Date of Publication
[1668]
Call Number
Book 95 1668
Corporate Author
Great Britain.
Uniform Title
Public General Acts.
Place of Publication
London : MDCLXVIII
Publisher
Printed for John Baskett, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, and by the, assigns of Robert Baskett ;and by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, law printers to the King's most excellent Majesty
Date of Publication
[1668]
Physical Description
[27, 1], 720 pages ; folio
Notes
With printed marginalia.
Date is incorrect, probably 1768.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 95 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - England - Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Additional Author
Baskett, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Woodfall, Henry
Strahan, William
Additional Corporate Author
Assigns of Robert Baskett
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 95 1668
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The first part (though last publish't) of the Reports of Sr George Croke, Kt. : late one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench and formerly one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench : of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts from the 24th to the 44th/45th of the late Queen Elizabeth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20940
Author
Croke, George
Date of Publication
1669.
Call Number
Book 116 1669
Responsibility
collected and written in French by himself ; revised and published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston, Baronet.
Author
Croke, George
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Roper, T. Collins, F. Tyton, J. Place, J. Starkey and T. Basset,
Date of Publication
1669.
Physical Description
[32], 920, [42] pages ; 31 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page beneath struck previous owner's; previous owner's signature also struck on front of second flyleaf.
Book number 116 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal notes and references of Thomas Leach, 1791.
Wing,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Grimston, Harbottle
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 116 1669
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The second part of the Reports of Sir George Croke Kt., late one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench, and formerly one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench: of such select cases, as were adjudged in the said courts, during the whole reign of the late King James: collected and written in French by himself; revised and published in English, by Sir Harebotle Grimston baronet, one of the benchers of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn. With an exact table of the principall points of law, argued and resolved therein

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20941
Author
Croke, George,
Edition
The second edition, corrected.
Date of Publication
1669.
Call Number
Book 117 1669
Author
Croke, George,
Uniform Title
Reports.
Edition
The second edition, corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed for A. Roper, T. Collins, F. Tyton, J. Place, J. Starkey and T. Bassett, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborn,
Date of Publication
1669.
Physical Description
[32], 620, 617-700, [20] p. : port. ; 8vo.
Notes
Frontis. portrait (pi1v) of the author signed: R: White sculpsit.
Leaf (c)2 is blank.
Text continuous despite pagination.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page above that of struck previous owner; previous owner's signature aslo struck from first and third flyleaves.
Book number 117 assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal notes & reference of Thomas Leach, 1791.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
ESTC (RLIN),
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Grimston, Harbottle,
White, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 117 1669
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Reports of adjudged cases in the courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer : from Trinity Term in the second year of King George I to Trinity Term in the twenty-first year of King George II i.e. 1716-1747

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20949
Author
Strange, John,
Date of Publication
1756.
Call Number
Book 123 1756
Book 122 1751
Responsibility
taken and collected by the Right Honourable Sir John Strange.
Author
Strange, John,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Published by his Son, John Strange : Printed by and for O. Nelson and for S. Cotter and R. Watts,
Date of Publication
1756.
Physical Description
2 volumes (iv, 1272, [100] pages) ; 31 cm
Notes
Spine title: Strange's reports.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 122 and 123 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 123 1756
Book 122 1751
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Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench, in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Second, [1737-1738]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20978
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1754.
Call Number
Book 141 1754
Alternate Title
Andrews reports
Responsibility
by George Andrews ...
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot, for J. Worrdl,
Date of Publication
1754.
Physical Description
[8], 397, [36] pages 33 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 141 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal notes.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Andrews, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 141 1754
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The law of evidence : with all the original references, carefully compared. To which is added, a great number of new references, from the best authorities. And now first publish'd from an exact copy taken from the original manuscript. With a compleat table to the whole

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21005
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Date of Publication
1754.
Call Number
Book 206 1754
Responsibility
by a late learned Judge.
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Sarah Cotter under Dick's Coffie-House in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1754.
Physical Description
1 preliminary leaf, [5], 199, [24] pages ; 20 cm
Notes
List of subscribers follow title page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page over struck former owner.
Book number 206 as assigned by Yeates.
Inscription on first fly leaf..
Subjects
Evidence (Law) - Great Britain.
Evidence (Law)
Great Britain.
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 206 1754
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Notes and observations on the fundamental laws of England; with some account of their origin and present establishment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21016
Author
Horseman, Gilbert.
Date of Publication
1753.
Call Number
Book 221 1753
Responsibility
By Gilbert Horseman, Esq; ...
Author
Horseman, Gilbert.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
in the Savoy: printed by Henry Lintot ... and sold by R. Baldwin, bookseller ...
Date of Publication
1753.
Physical Description
[2], 93, [1] pages ; 8vo
Notes
Full blind-tooled leathr (Binding)
"Abstracted from Sir Matthew Hale's History of the common law"--British Library catalogue.
Jasper Yeates' Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 221as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Law - England.
Law.
England.
Full blind tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Hale, Matthew,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 221 1753
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