A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
"The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.
Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Evans
Summary
This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]
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.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Commencing on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-first. : Volume VII
Laws of the fourteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
Journal of the first session of the seventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of the Commonwealth the twenty first
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the 1st of January to the 31st December, 1796 inclusive, Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Sellers, 1797.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1796. Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Sellers, 1797.
Journal of the first session of the second House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one
Appendix: State of the finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as reported to the Governor, by the Comptroller-General, the Register-General, and Treasurer of the said Commonwealth. --Appendix containing the schedules referred to in the preceding statement. [Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Bailey & Thomas Lang, 1791] --State of the finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from November 1st to December 31st, 1791. [Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Bailey & Thomas Lang, 1792].
Journal of the first session of the fourth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania ... Philadelphia :Francis Bailey, 1794.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1793 ... Philadelphia : Francis Bailey, 1794.
Journal of the proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : when sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment. : Commencing on Wednesday, the eighth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four
Journal of the proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : when sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment. : Commencing on Wednesday, the eighth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four
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
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.
Journal of the fifth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, inclusive. Philadelphia : Hall & Sellers, 1795.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1794. Philadelphia : Hall & Sellers, 1795.
Journal of the second session of the seventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven
Printed by Hall & Sellers, no. 58, Market-Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCVII. [1797]
Physical Description
398,[1]62,19, [1], 19, [1], 19,[1] pages ; 31 cm.
Notes
Last session 5 April 1798.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the 1st of January to the 31st December, 1797 inclusive, Philadelphia : Printed by F & R. Bailey, 1798.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1797. Philadelphia : Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey. --Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania for the year 1707: Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1798.-- General statement of the contracts for opening and improving roads and rivers...Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1797.
Journal of the first session of the sixth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and of the Commonwealth the twentieth
Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, No. 116, High-Street.,
Date of Publication
M, DCCC, XCV [1795].
Physical Description
487, [1],19,[1], 12 p. ; 32 cm.
Notes
The session ended April 4, 1796.
Title vignette: state seal.
Appendix: Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvnia, for the year M,DCC,XCV. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey,at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street; Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty=first of December, inclusive. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey,at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street
Jasper Yeates Colonial Library.
Book number 17b as assigned by Yeates.
At top of title page: signature of Matthias Barton.
Journal of the second session of the fourth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia), on Monday, the first day of September . one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four
Precedents in the office of a justice of peace : to which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new : with an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Commencing on Tuesday, the second day of December, the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States of America the nineteenth. : Volume V
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : Commencing on Tuesday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and of the independence of the United States of America the twentieth
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-street,
Date of Publication
[1796].
Physical Description
249, [1, [4] 5-19 [1], [4] 5-12] p ; (fol.)
Series
Early American imprints // ed. by Clifford Kenyon Shipton and the American Antiquarian Society ; Ser. 1 ; 30980 [Dig. Serial]
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Book number 22 as arranged by Yeates.
Report of the Register-General of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1795,[indivdual title page]; Accounts of the Treasuyr of Pennsylvania, from the fist of January to the thirty-first of December, inclusive [individual title page]
