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Laws of the first sitting of the fifth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which met at Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1780]
Call Number
Book 584 1780c
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1780 October)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
[Dunlap],
Date of Publication
[1780]
Physical Description
397-417, [1] pages ; 35 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 584 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
Subjects
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817, - former owner
Philadelphia (Pa.). - Dunlap - (1780)
Three-quarters leather on decorated boards (Binding)
Stamped spine title. (Binding)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 584 1780c
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Laws enacted in the third sitting of the ninth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred eighty and five

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1785]
Call Number
Book 1787a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1785 Aug.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1785]
Physical Description
pages [589]-704, iii, [1] ; 32 cm (fol.)
Notes
Caption title; imprint from colophon.
Continuously paged from session laws beginning in 1781 (Evans 17659).
Error in pagination: p. 659 misnumbered 650.
Signatures: 7M-8R² [8S]² ([8S2] verso blank).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 587as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817, - former owner.
Philadelphia. - General Assembly - Early works to 1800.
Thee-quarters leather over boards (Binding)
Early works.
Imprinted title on spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Bradford, Thomas,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1787a
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Report of the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., on an information filed, ex officio, by the attorney general, for the distribution of a libel : with the subsequent proceedings thereon : containing the arguments of counsel, the opinion of the court, and Mr. Rowan's address to the court, at full

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Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Book 607 1794b
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esquire and sold by P. Byrne, Grafton Street,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[2], 152 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 607 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Subjects
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, - 1751-1834
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, - 1751-1834.
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817, - former owner.
United Irishmen.
Trials (Seditious libel) - Ireland - Early works to 1800.
Trials (Seditious libel)
Ireland.
Early works.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton,
Byrne, Patrick,
Additional Corporate Author
Ireland. Court of King's Bench.
Place
Ireland Dublin.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 607 1794b
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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

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Date of Publication
1792.
Call Number
Book 666 1792
Alternate Title
Conductor generalis
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.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Robert Campbell,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A-2G⁸.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.
Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.
Coroners - Early works to 1800.
Constables - Early works to 1800.
Jury - Early works to 1800.
Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.
Constables.
Coroners.
Fines and recoveries.
Internal revenue law.
Jury.
Justices of the peace.
Militia.
Sheriffs.
United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.
New York (State)
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Parker, James,
Gentleman of the law.
Burn, Richard,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 666 1792
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State of the accounts of William Hay, Esq. collector of excise for Lancaster County : From August 10, 1782, to August 10, 1783. : In which is exhibited, the amount of the monies received and accounted for also, lists shewing the names of the persons from whom excise became due, and was received: likewise, the payments made to the state treasurer

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Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIV [i.e. 1784]
Call Number
352.135 P544 1783
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by F. Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIV [i.e. 1784]
Physical Description
11, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signed on p. 11: John Nicholson. Comptroller General's Office, Philadelphia, Mar. 1, 1784.
Also issued as the eighth title in: Accounts of Pennsylvania. Vol. I. [Philadelphia : Hall and Sellers, 1785] (Evans 18676).
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Subjects
Internal revenue - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 18th century.
Additional Author
Hay, William.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
352.135 P544 1783
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State of the accounts of Samuel Turbett, Esquire, collector of excise for the county of Lancaster; from the time of his appointment until the 24th of February, 1786

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Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Date of Publication
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Call Number
352.135 P544 1783
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head in Market Street.,
Date of Publication
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description
4 p.
Notes
Signed on p. 3: John Nicholson. Comptroller General's Office, March 1st, 1786.
Evans
Subjects
Internal revenue - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.
Additional Author
Turbett, Samuel.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
352.135 P544 1783
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State of the accounts of Samuel Turbett, Esquire, collector of excise, for the county of Lancaster; from 25th February, till 21st Sept. 1786

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Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Date of Publication
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Call Number
353.135 P544 1783
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.). Collector of Excise.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head in Market Street.,
Date of Publication
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description
9, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signed on p. 3: John Nicholson. Comptroller-General's Office, September 28th, 1786.
Signatures: [A]# [B]1 ([B]1 verso blank).
Evans
Subjects
Internal revenue - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.
Additional Author
Turbett, Samuel.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
353.135 P544 1783
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Did Louis XVI of France present a rug to George Washington?

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1927
: "Washington being President of the United States, could not receive a present from any foreign power. Consequently, the rug was sold. Judge Jasper Yeates, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, then living in Lan- caster, Pa., bought it and laid it on the parlor floor of his house (now occupied by The Inquirer
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
12-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1
Subjects
Louis - XVI, - King of France, - 1754-1793.
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.
Washington, George, - 1732-1799.
Rugs - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Gobelin tapestry.
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society.. Volume 31, number 1 (1927), p. 12-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
Documents

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Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, from July A.D. 1789 to June A.D. 1793; with a variety of cases anterior to that period. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court

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Corporate Author
Connecticut. Superior Court.
Date of Publication
1798-1802.
Call Number
Book 401 1802
Book 400 1798
Responsibility
By Jesse Root.
Corporate Author
Connecticut. Superior Court.
Place of Publication
Hartford
Publisher
Printed by Hudson and Goodwin,
Date of Publication
1798-1802.
Physical Description
2 volumes 23 cm
Notes
Title page of v. 2 varies slightly.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 400 and 401 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
V. 1. June 1789-June 1793 -- v. 2. June 1793-June 1798; being four years and a half, or nine circuits.
Summary
"With a variety of cases anterior to that period [1764-1789]. Prefaced with observations upon the government and laws of Connecticut. To which is subjoined, sundry law points adjudged, and rules of practice adopted in the Superior Court."--T.p.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Connecticut.
Court rules - Connecticut.
Law - Connecticut.
Court rules.
Law.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Connecticut.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Root, Jesse,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 401 1802
Book 400 1798
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Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, : from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, inclusive

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Treasury.
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
Book 23a 1797.1
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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Treasury.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-street.,
Date of Publication
1797.
Physical Description
12 p. ; 31 cm.
Notes
Signed on p. [3]: Elizabeth Febiger, executrix of Christian Febiger, deceased. Treasury Office, January 9th, 1797.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Book number 23 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Three-quarters leather with marbled paper over boards and maroon and gilt title on spine.
Subjects
Finance, Public - Pennsylvania.
Internal revenue - Pennsylvania.
Finance, Public.
Internal revenue.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Febiger, Christian,
Febiger, Elizabeth.
Poulson, Zachariah,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 23a 1797.1
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