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Poor school children record Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1810-1836

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1606
Date of Publication
1992
Call Number
974.813 P823
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Responsibility
compiled by Lucy Simler and Chester County Archives.
Place of Publication
West Chester, Pa
Publisher
Chester County Historical Society
Date of Publication
1992
Physical Description
iii, 239 p. 29 cm.
Subjects
Poor - Chester County.
Taxation - Chester County.
School children
Chester County - Poor.
Additional Author
Simler, Lucy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 P823
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/45b39700-c22a-4391-9868-729445210124
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1770 F001 QS
Date Range
1770/02
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1770/02
Year
1770
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Bickham, James
Boyd, Robert
McKillip, Charles
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Overseers of the Poor
Orders
Drumore Twp.
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1770 F001 QS
Additional Notes
Also: Robert Boyd.
Order to Overseers of the Poor in Drumore Twp. to receive Charles McKillip.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/a9cbd177-e718-4e5c-ac76-899602234790
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1770 F010 QS
Date Range
1770/02
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1770/02
Year
1770
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Cairns, John
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Orders
Overseers of the Poor
Lancaster
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1770 F010 QS
Additional Notes
Order to Overseers of the Poor in the Borough of Lancaster, regarding John Cairns.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2ec13a12-cbc6-496f-9065-531507868684
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1772 F001 QS
Date Range
1772/02
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1772/02
Year
1772
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Singer, Casper
Zank, Henry
Lighty, Henry
Hanley, Jane
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Overseers of the Poor
Lancaster
Lancaster Twp.
Drumore Twp.
Orders
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1772 F001 QS
Additional Notes
Also: Henry Zank, Henry Lighty.
Overseers of Poor of Lancaster Borough and Twp.
Order to Overseers of Poor of Donegal Twp. quashed to remove Jane Hanley.
1 item, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Record, Judicial

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/d5445e01-d4df-4636-96e1-606841356245
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
MAY 1770 F003 QS
Date Range
1770/05
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Date Range
1770/05
Year
1770
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Charity
Will
Work, James
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Adjudications
Children
Indentured servants
Orders
Persons of color
Quarter Sessions
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
MAY 1770 F003 QS
Notes
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document 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.
Additional Notes
Order, adjudgment of service.
Mulatto children Will and Charity.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/28a8c389-4e24-4157-8061-272548030010
Collection
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Title
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Object ID
MG0277
Date Range
1798-1993
between the Directors of the Poor and House of Employment and Matthias Slough. Ninety acres south of the turnpike road leading from the borough of Lancaster to Abraham Witmer’s bridge. 27 November 1798. Transferred from a drawer of assorted county documents, 2005. RG 08-12. Folder 32 Blueprints for
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Collection
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Title
Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection
Description
The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection is comprised of accounts, registers, minutes, and other records kept by this county department. There are birth and death records, lists of inmates, supply and payroll books, and auditors' reports, and a scrapbook of Conestoga View.
Date Range
1798-1993
Year Range From
1798
Year Range To
1993
Date of Accumulation
1798-1993
Creator
Lancaster County (Pa.). Board of County Commissioners
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 08
People
Ash, Phineas
Bachman, J. M.
Bachman, John
Bair, Ivan
Baney, William
Bard, R. W.
Bare, Adam
Bausman, John
Bubach, Gerhart
Carpenter, Sam
Centini, Jane E.
Clark, Thomas
Coleman, Thomas
Colwell, James
Dale, Samuel
Dorwart, Jonas
Dunlap, Stephan
Eaby, George W.
Esler, P. O.
Gibbons, William
Good, William
Graybill, N. W.
Graybill, H.
Gryder, Christian
Haines, Timothy
Halbach, W. A.
Harnish, Jacob
Harnish, Samuel
Heck, Lewis
Herr, Christian
Hershey, W. E. H.
Hildebrant, W.
Hollinger, George
Humes, Samuel
Jackson, James J.
Kean, Thomas M.
Kready, David C.
Lane, P. C.
Lenegan, Archibald M.
Light, John
Livingston, J. B.
Long, Jacob
Metzger, John W.
Meyers, Samuel M.
Murray, William
Musser, George
Nauman, J. W.
Nicholson, John
Overholzer, H. D.
Patterson, D. W.
Reed, John K.
Schwartz, Conrad
Slaymaker, Henry
Snyder, Simon
Stone, Abraham
Strine, Jacob S.
Summy, A.
Sweigart, E.
Weaver, B. F.
Webb, Will
Wein, John
Wentz, Thomas
Witmer, Abraham
Witters, Jacob W.
Young, Mathias
Zantzinger, Paul
Other Creators
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Subjects
Almshouses
Almshouses--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History
Auditors' reports
Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History
Scrapbooks
Search Terms
Almshouses
Auditors' reports
Conestoga View
Finding aids
Manuscript groups
Scrapbooks
Extent
3 boxes, 33 books and folders, 3.5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0277
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital Collection (MG0277), Folder or Book #, 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.
Classification
MG0277
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Most of the items in this collection are part of the Lancaster County Government Records, RG 08-12. They were transferred into MG-277 in 1999 during the planning of the Almshouse and Hospital exhibition. Other items are on loan from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation or were collected by LancasterHistory.
Added to database 21 July 2017.
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Virtue, industry, and independence : almshouses and labor in the Philadelphia region, 1791-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11218
Author
Bourque, Monique C.-E.
Date of Publication
1995.
Call Number
362.5 B749v
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Responsibility
by Monique C.-E. Bourque.
Author
Bourque, Monique C.-E.
Date of Publication
1995.
Physical Description
xv, 372 leaves : ill., map, plan ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Almshouses - Pennsylvania.
Almshouses - New Jersey.
Almshouses - Delaware.
Poor - Pennsylvania.
Poor - New Jersey.
Poor - Delaware.
Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor - Pennsylvania
Poor - New Jersey
Poor - Delaware
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
362.5 B749v
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A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21730
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
[1770?]
Call Number
Book 663 1770
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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London : For P. Uriel in Inner Temple-Lane, and W. Griffin in Catherine-Street in the Strand
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty ;
Date of Publication
[1770?]
Physical Description
[38], LXXIII, 291 [i.e. 292, 3] pages)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page; original owner's signature removed.
Book number 663 as assigned by Yeates.
English Short Title Catalog,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Poor laws - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Poor laws.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Bott, Edmund.
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 663 1770
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Laws relating to the poor : from the forty-third of Queen Elizabeth to the third of King George II : with cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, upon the several clauses of them. In a method entirely new

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22077
Date of Publication
M DCC XXXIX [1739].
Call Number
Book 888 1739
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Responsibility
by Robert Foley.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer) for T. Woodward,
Date of Publication
M DCC XXXIX [1739].
Physical Description
[32], 284, [20] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Notes
"Books lately printed and sold by T. Woodward"; leaf preceding t.p.
Covers laws from 1601-1730.
Signatures: A⁴ a⁸ b⁴ B-U⁸.
Errata: p. [20] at end.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 888 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
NUC pre-1956
Subjects
Poor laws - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Poor laws.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)
Additional Author
Foley, Robert
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 888 1739
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The infants lawyer : or, The law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges ; their several ages for divers purposes ; guardians and procheim amy, as to suits and defences by them ; actions brought by and against them, with the manner of declarations and pleadings ; fines and recoveries, and other matters of record suffered or acknowledged by them, how reversable ; conveyances and specialties, how bound by them or not ; contracts, promises, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22071
Edition
3rd ed. :
Date of Publication
1726.
Call Number
Book 883 1726
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Alternate Title
Law (ancient and modern) relating to infants
Responsibility
With an appendix of the forms of declarations and pleadings concerning infants.
Edition
3rd ed. :
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assigns Edw. Sayer, for James Crokatt,
Date of Publication
1726.
Physical Description
[24], 380, [28] pages ; 20 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 883 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Children - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Children
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bingind)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 883 1726
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