This collection contains papers and local government records related to Black history in Lancaster County, including an index to Lancaster County's register of enslaved persons, Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons or Negro Entry Book, and a biographical account of Rev. James William Charles Pennington. There are official records for enslaved persons and their children in Lancaster County, as well as freemen within Lancaster City. The collection also contains a manumission paper from the state of Virginia, a certificate for free persons of color, and letters from anit-slavery societies.
System of Arrangement
Series 1 consists of the "Slave Registers," official county records registering enslaved women and their children after 1780.
Series 2 contains the "Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons," a manumission paper, correspondence, and other records.
1 box, 33 folders, 128 items, 1,178 pages to scan, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0240
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Black History Collection (MG0240), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this collection 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 In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org prior to visit. Restricted access for the Mayor's Register of Coloured Persons found in Series 2, Folder 2: Use transcript in Folder 3 or microfilm.
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-240
Classification
MG0240
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
The collection was formerly called "The Slave Records of Lancaster County Collection." Name changed to "African American Records Collection" and arrangement changed on 13 June 2007. Name changed again in 2022 to "Black History Collection."
Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.
Modern entries, in English: being a select collection of pleadings in the courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer ... and also all kinds of writs, original and judicial. Translated from the most authentick books, but chiefly from Lutwich's, Saunders's, Ventris's, Salkeld's, and the Modern reports; and from other cases lately tried and adjudged, and wherein writs of error have been brought, and judgments affirmed: together with readings and observations on the several cases in the reports ... To which are added references to all the other entries in the books. With three distinct tables, one of the precedents, the second of the cases abridg'd, and the third of the names of the cases
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (asigns of E. Sayer) for R. Gosling,
Date of Publication
1734-35.
Physical Description
2 volumes 32 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: By a barrister of the Inner Temple.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 64 and 65 as assigned by Yeates.
Summary
"Translated from the most authentick books, but chiefly from Lutwich's, Saunder's, Ventris's, Salked's, and the Modern reports; and from other cases lately tried and adjudged, and wherein writs of error have been brought, and judgments affirmed: together with readings and observations on the several cases in the reports ... To which are added references to all the other entries in the books. With three distinct tables, one of the precedents, the second of the cases abridg'd, and the third of the names of the cases. By a gentleman of the Inner Temple."
Errors in paging, first sequence: p. 33-42 repeated in the numbering; second sequence: p. 145-148 repeated in the numbering.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 66 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Contents
(from t. p.) Part I. Containing an abridgment of the law concerning the patronages of churches, the titles of ecclesiastical persons to their estates, the manner of conveying, granting and leasing them, the several acts of Parliament made concerning them, and other matters necessary to be treated of, in order to the better understanding of the matters above-mention'd, as also shewing the relief given by law to persons injur'd in their rights of presentation, by writs of right, assize of darrein presentment, and this action of quare impedit, and also of the resolutions in the law books concerning the proceedings (viz.) the mesne process, declarations, pleadings, trial, evidence, verdict, judgment, damages, costs, execution and writs of error &c., with a complete table thereto -- Part II. Containing precedents of pleadings, (viz.) declarations, pleas, replications, rejoinders, demurrers, issues, judgments, judicial process, and proceedings in error, as also references to all other precedents, in the several law books of entries relating to this action, with a complete table thereto.
[London] In the Savoy : For John Worrall at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn ; And Thomas Worrall at Judge Coke's Head against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1734.
Physical Description
x, [10], 341, [28] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
"Now carefuly translated, with the addition of many thousand references: particularly to such statutes as have altered or amended the law to this time ... by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple.
"There are actually very few Exchequer cases among them, and they would come more appropriately, perhaps, under the head of King's bench reports. The book is more like an abridgement than like an ordinary volume of reports, most of the cases being taken from other reporters. The word centuries is not used here in its chronological meaning, but indicates that the cases are grouped by hundreds." cf. Soule. Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Translated by Theodore Barlow?
Signatures: [a]²-f², B²-4X².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page to the left of William Whitestraw struck.
Book number 99 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate of William Whitstraw with name partially struck on back of front cover.
At top of inside front cover: One pound 18-0.
Handwritten at top of first flyleaf: This Book is quoted as an Authority in 3 Pure? Wm. 475.
Reports of cases argued, debated, and adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, in the reign of Queen Ann: more particularly, during the time the late Lord Chief Justice Holt presided in that court [1702-1709]
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers, for E. Brooke,
Date of Publication
1781.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 396, [28] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Star-paged.
Issued also as v. 11 of the "Modern reports," and usually so cited.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 133 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Modern reports: or cases in law and equite, chiefly during the time the late Earl of Macclesfield presided in the cournts of King's Bench and Chancery... vol x 2nd ed, London: Printede by His Majesty's Law-Printers, 1769.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first years of the reign of George III. [1778-1781]
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers for T. Cadell and E. Brooke,
Date of Publication
1783.
Physical Description
xiv, [32], 766, [54] pages ; 33 cm
Notes
"Additions to Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first years of the reign of George III, by Sylvester Douglas" (36 p.; published: London, Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for T. Cadell and E. Brooke, 1786) inserted.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench : from Michaelmas term, 26th George III, to Easter term ... George III, both inclusive
Printed by His Majesty's law-printers, for T. Whieldon,
Date of Publication
1787-1800.
Physical Description
8 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
Reports cover the period 1785-1800.
Issued at the end of each term, and usually cited as "Term reports", with later editions appearing under that title.
Vol. 3 printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall for T. Whieldon; v. 4, by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall for Whieldon and Butterworth; v. 5, by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall for J. Butterworth; v. 6-8, by A. Strahan for J. Butterworth.
Vol. 7 and 8 to "Trinity Term."
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 145, 146, 147,148, and 149 assigned by Yeates.
