Recognizance, selling spirituous liquors and keeping a disorderly house.
Additional names: Miles Reily, Hanah Galloway, Caty Reed, Peggy Bartram, Benjamin Galloway, Christian McClosky, Jacob Goshow, John Read, Daniel Haines.
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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.
Signers of Petition: John Lechler, George Ackarman, Adam Dellet, Jacob Lindy, Frederick Steigerwald, Jacob Lubley, Robert Wilson, A. Brenneman, David Fitzgerald, J. Metzger, Gottlieb Siebert, John Fransiscius, Henry Phillips, Gotlieb Kleeman, James Loughin, John Bosmett, Christian Trissler, and several others.
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