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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732
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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Pew rent records, 1844-1849

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15141
Corporate Author
English Presbyterian Church (Lancaster, Pa.), Trustees.
Date of Publication
1849 (Transcribed 2002)
Call Number
285.1 F527p
Responsibility
Transcribed by M. Duffield Harsh.
Corporate Author
English Presbyterian Church (Lancaster, Pa.), Trustees.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The Church ,
Date of Publication
1849 (Transcribed 2002)
Physical Description
12 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Now known as First Presbyterian Church on Orange St.
List includes name of pew holder, location of pew, amount paid, when paid.
See also Microfilm #242 for more pew rents.
Subjects
First Presbyterian Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Pews and pew rights.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
285.1 F527p
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Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, : from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20767
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Treasury.
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
Book 23a 1797.1
  1 website  
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
Websites
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21003
Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
Responsibility
by Collinson Read, Esquire.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[4], 63, [1], 33, [1] p. : forms ; 20 cm.
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-E⁴ [F]⁴ G-H⁴ ²A-D⁴ ²E²( -E2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 203 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Forms (Law)
Justices of the peace.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
Blank forms.
Three-quarters leather and marbled paper (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
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The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor, treating of actions: (such as are now most in use;) of prosecuting and defending them: of the pleadings and law. Also of hue and cry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22141
Author
Morgan, John
Date of Publication
1792.
Call Number
Book 1004 1792
Book 1005 1792
Responsibility
The subjects arranged in a clear and perspicuous manner ... By John Morgan.
Author
Morgan, John
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by W. Porter, for G. Burnet,
Date of Publication
1792.
Physical Description
3 volumes in 2. 21 cm
Notes
Vol. 3 has title and imprint: The attorney's vade mecum, and client's instructor ... Consisting of precedents, adapted to the preceding work, and arranged according to its order ... Dublin, Printed by W. Porter, for E. Lynch [etc.].
LHO wants vol 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 1004 and 1005 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Actions and defenses - Great Britain.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Actions and defenses.
Civil procedure.
Criminal procedure.
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1004 1792
Book 1005 1792
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A complete body of conveyancing, in theory and practice

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20998
Author
Wood, Edward.
Edition
A new ed.,
Date of Publication
1790-93.
Call Number
Book 199 1793
ook 198 1791
Book 197 1790
Responsibility
by Edward Wood.
Author
Wood, Edward.
Edition
A new ed.,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, for J. Johnson,
Date of Publication
1790-93.
Physical Description
3 volumes 36 cm
Notes
"In the present edition, the materials contained in the first volume of Wood ... will be selected, and introduced in the form of short elementary treatises at the head of each distinct species of instrument."--To the reader.
Book-plate of James Louis Petigru.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 197-199 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Conveyancing - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Conveyancing.
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Marbled end-papers.
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Powell, John Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 199 1793
ook 198 1791
Book 197 1790
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Parish register of Christ Church, Leacock, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4675
Date of Publication
1828-1879.
Call Number
283 C554Le
Place of Publication
[Leacock, Pa.]
Publisher
Christ Church,
Date of Publication
1828-1879.
Physical Description
2, 279 l. (some blank); 23 x 35 cm.
Notes
Photocopy.
"Original records are located at St. James' Church, Lancaster, Pa."
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 246 #2.
Contents
Baptisms (Dec. 23, 1828 - June 2, 1879), pages 30-69 - Confirmations (June 12,1833 - April 9, 1873, pages 127-132 - Communicants (Dec. 25, 1828 - Alpril 17, 1878, pages 170-185 - Marriages (March 26, 1829 - June 21 1866, pages 194-197 - Marriages (June 10, 1873 - June 10, 1879), pages 198-199 - Burials (April 23, 1837 - April 20, 1872), pages 243-247 - Burials (April 26, 1873 -April 18, 1879), pages 248-249.
Subjects
Christ Episcopal Church (Leacock, Lancaster County, Pa.)
Chuch records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Leacock (Township)
Episcopal Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster Couinty.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
283 C554Le
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A historical account of Christ Church, Philadelphia : from its foundation, A.D. 1695, to A.D. 1841 : and of St. Peter's and St. James's, until the separation of the churches

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5986
Author
Dorr, Benjamin,
Date of Publication
1841.
Call Number
974.811 C554d
Responsibility
by Benjamin Dorr.
Author
Dorr, Benjamin,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Swords, Stanford, and Co.,
Date of Publication
1841.
Physical Description
x, 430 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) - History.
St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) - History.
St. James's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.811 C554d
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Presbyterian Records New Castle: [Minutes, 1716-1731, 1759-1957]

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Corporate Author
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of New Castle.
Date of Publication
1716-1814.
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 1: #843
Alternate Title
Presbytery of New Castle.
Corporate Author
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of New Castle.
Date of Publication
1716-1814.
Physical Description
4 v. ; 17-34 cm.
Notes
Includes early minutes under the Synods of Philadelphia, and New York and Philadelphia.
Affiliation: 1716-1745, The Synod; 1745-1758, "Old Side," Synod of Philadelphia; "New Side," Synod of New York; 1758-1789, Synod of New York & Philadelphia; 1789-1814, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Microfilm. Philadelphia : Presbyterian Historical Society, 1966. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Subjects
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - New Castle.
Presbyterian Church - Records and correspondence
Additional Corporate Author
Synod of New York and Philadelphia (1758-1788). Presbytery of New-Castle.
Synod of Philadelphia (1717-1757). Presbytery of New-Castle.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 1: #843
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
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.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
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