Located on the road leading from the Blue Rock Ferry on the Susquehanna to the village of Strasburg.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: Moses Hemor, Andrew Diffenbaugh, Christian Shultz, John Parkman, Thomas Burrows, Peter Lefever, Andrew Roat, John Brackbill, Isaac Burrowes, Daniel Herr, William Russel, Martin Carpenter, Thomas Crawford.
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Signers of Petition: George Nagel, Andrew Tryer, Paul Dewees, Jacob Sherer, Philip Heitshu, James Humes, Samuel Humes, David Brady, Wilhelm, Jacob Dickert, George Miller, William Dickson, David R. Barton, Dan Reigart, Hugh Wilson, John Neff, Jacob Krug, Samuel Slaymaker, Philip Messenkop, Samuel Carpenter, and three others.
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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.
Recognizance, charged with keeping a tippling house; disorderly house.
Deposition of James McIntosh.
Grand Inquest, nuisance.
Additional names: William Key, Patrick McGivern, George Best, James Taggert, William Dean, John Porter, James Flood, Charles Daugherty, Andrew McBroom, Isaac Britzius, Jacob Wolfinden.
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