Signers of petition: Thomas Johnston, Jacob Roth Jr., Jacob Hunsicker, Alexander Lindsay, Jacob Graybill, James Steele, Samuel Bailie, Francis Flury, Samuel D. Miller, John Park, Reuben Welshans, Jacob Rigler.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Also: John Smith; William Mentzer; Jacob Weller; William Weller; Martin Bitzer; William Bitzer; Andrew Miller; John Miller; Bear Weaver; William Hinkle; Solomon Steffy; Emanuel Groff.
Riot.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.