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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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Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery ... [1660-1697]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21747
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
3rd ed., carefully corr. from the errors of former impressions,
Date of Publication
1735.
Call Number
Book 693 1735
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
3rd ed., carefully corr. from the errors of former impressions,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by C. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1735.
Physical Description
3 volumes in 1 ; 33 cm
Notes
Pt. 2, 2nd edition; pt. 3, 4th edition.
Title of pt. 3: Select cases in the High Court of Chancery, solemnly argued and decreed by the late Lord Chancellor, with the assistance of the judges, with an exact table to the whole ...
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 693 as assigned by Yeates.
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
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 693 1735
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Maxims of equity, collected from and proved by cases, out of the books of the best authority in the High Court of Chancery. To which is added, the case of the Earl of Coventry, concerning the defective execution of powers. Lately adjudged in the High Court of Chancery

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21748
Author
Francis, Richard,
Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1739.
Call Number
Book 694 1739
Responsibility
By Richard Francis.
Author
Francis, Richard,
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
1739.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 72, [14], 20 pages 32 cm
Notes
"The arguments of the Lord Chancellor Macclesfield, the master of the rolls, Mr. Baron Price, and Mr. Baron Gilbert, in the case of the Earl of Coventry, concerning the defective execution of powers. Die sabbati 16 ÌŠmaii 1724, Countess Dowager of Coventry, against the Earl of Coventry & al.'": [2], 20 p. at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 694 assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - Great Britain.
Legal maxims - Great Britain.
Powers (Law)
Equity.
Legal maxims.
Great Britain.
One-half leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Coventry, Anne (Master) Coventry,
Coventry, William Coventry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 694 1739
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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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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1733.
Call Number
Book 703 1733
Responsibility
being a collection of cases, argued and adjudged in the High Court of Chancery; from the year 1689, to 1722.
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 Arthur Bettesworth,
Date of Publication
1733.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 598 (i. e. 588), [40] pages 31 cm
Notes
Paging irregular; p. 357-366 omitted in numbering.
Issued anonymously; notes of cases to 1708 ascribed by Lord Hardwicke to Mr. Pooley, and from that period to Mr. Robins; in 1786 the work was edited by Thomas Finch. cf. Marvin, Legal bibl.; Wallace, The reporters; Bridgman, Legal bibl.; Viner, Abridgment.
Includes index.
Hand-written marginalia.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 703 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate of William Whitebread pasted on inside front cover.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Finch, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Whitebread, William,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 703 1733
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A new institute of the imperial or civil law With notes, shewing in some principal cases amongst other observation, how the canon law, the laws of England, and the laws and customs of other nations differ from it. In four books

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21760
Author
Wood, Thomas,
Edition
4th ed. cor.
Date of Publication
MDCCXXX [1730].
Call Number
Book 710 1730
Author
Wood, Thomas,
Edition
4th ed. cor.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. and J. Knapton
Date of Publication
MDCCXXX [1730].
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 342, [6] pages)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 710 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Roman law.
Civil law.
Canon law.
Law - Great Britain.
Comparative law.
Jurisprudence.
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 710 1730
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An institute of the laws of England, or, The laws of England in their natural order, according to common use : published for the direction of young beginners or students in the law, and of others that desire to have a general knowledge in our common and statute laws : in four books

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21763
Author
Wood, Thomas,
Edition
The sixth edition.
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Call Number
Book 713 1738
Alternate Title
Institute of the laws of England
Laws of England in their natural order, according to common use
Responsibility
by Thomas Wood ...
Author
Wood, Thomas,
Edition
The sixth edition.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer Esq.) for Henry Lintot ... and for Thomas Osborne ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description
[2], xi, [1], 663, [35] p. 37 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [a]² b-c² d1 B-4P⁴ 4Q-4Z² 5A1.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 713 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Law - England - Early works to 1800.
Law.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 713 1738
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The civil law in its natural order, together with the publick law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21764
Author
Domat, Jean,
Edition
The second edition, with additions.
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Call Number
Book 714 1737
Book 715 1737
Responsibility
written in French by Monsieur Domat, the late French King's Advocate in the Presidial Court of Clermont in France, and translated into English by William Strahan, LL. D. Advocate in Doctors Commons ; with additional remarks on some material differences between the civil law and the law of England.
Author
Domat, Jean,
Uniform Title
Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel.
Edition
The second edition, with additions.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Ware, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley and J. Wood, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, and R. Hett,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 36 cm (fol.)
Notes
In this second edition, vol. 1 ends on p.670 and the last numbered page in vol. 2 is p.676 [i.e. 706], pp. 700-706 being misnumbered pp. 670-676; after p. 676 comes the unpaginated index.
In double columns with marginalia.
Includes index and errata at end of vol. 2.
Engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 714 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Bibliothecae ecclesiae Cicestrensis librorum catalogus (1871),
Subjects
Civil law - Early works to 1800.
Civil law.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Bindingh)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Strahan, William
Freeland, James Bennett,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Chichester Cathedral,
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 714 1737
Book 715 1737
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A report of all the cases determined by Sir John Holt, knt. from 1688 to 1710, during which time he was Lord Chief Justice of England : containing many cases never before printed, taken from an original manuscript of Thomas Farresley ... also several cases in Chancery and the Exchequer-Chamber

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21766
Author
Holt, John,
Date of Publication
1738.
Call Number
Book 717 1738
Alternate Title
Holt's reports
Author
Holt, John,
Place of Publication
Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for J. Hazard, T. Osborne, J. Wortall, C. Corbett, C. Ward, and R. Chandler, J. Wood, C. Waller, and G. Hawkins,
Date of Publication
1738.
Physical Description
[2], iii, [16], [90] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
"Cases determined by Sir John Holt. K.B., Ch., Ex. Mainly collected from the printed Reports, with additional cases from the manuscript of Thomas Farresley. "The whole alphabetically digested under proper heads," like an Abridgment. Said to have been edited by Giles Jacob."--The lawyer's reference manual of law books and citations, by Charles C. Soule, 1953.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page over that of E. Biddle.
Book number 717 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten note at bottom of title page concerning Giles Jacob, author of the Law Dictionary "is reputed to be the collector or at least the Publisher of these Reports. (Vide Preface to Chief Justice's Holt's Life, vol IV)
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
Farresley, Thomas.
Giles, Jacob,
Yeates, Jasper,
E. Biddle,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 717 1738
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The reports of Sir Henry Yelverton, knight and baronet ... of divers special cases in the Court of King's Bench, as well in the latter end of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, as in the first ten years of K. James. [1602-1613]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21778
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
The 3d ed., cor.
Date of Publication
1735.
Call Number
Book 733 1735
Responsibility
With two tables; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters. Publish'd originally in French by Sir William Wylde, knight and baronet ... Now carefully translated, with the addition of many thousand references.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
The 3d ed., cor.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for W. Feales,
Date of Publication
1735.
Physical Description
7 preliminary leaves, 228, [23] pages 32 cm
Notes
"Law books lately published, sold by W. Feales, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, C. Corbett and R. Wellington" : [1] p. at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 733 as assigned by Yeates.
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
Yeates, Jasper,
Yelverton, Henry,
Wilde, William,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 733 1735
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