Papers filed for construction and repair of bridges. The types of petitions presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions include: petitions for bridge construction and repair, petitions for inspections, and petitions for bridge funds. Other types of items include: specifications, proposals, and contracts for bridge construction and repair; bridge blueprints and plans; correspondence; bills for materials; and bridge condition reports. Many papers show date; court term and case number; names of petitioners, viewers, inspectors, and contractors; costs and fees; location of bridge; and name or number of bridge. The order and report of viewers documents are of particular interest as they usually include a copy of the original petition; the order and names of viewers to inspect the site; the public announcement for the viewers meeting; the report and recommendation of viewers, often with a drawing of the site and surrounding area; and the court decision.
System of Arrangement
Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Signers of a petition to an eating house:William Chandler, John S. Morrison, Samuel S. Kirkwood, J. A. Potts, Edwin B. Gorsch, William Miller, Mark Showalter, John J. Long, Samuel Martin, George F. Long, E. F. Penrose, Albert Myers, Joseph A. Boyd, Henry Earnhart Lewis, [ ] Housekeeper, William J. Hess, Thomas R. Neel, William Ritchie, Isaac Rogers, H. H. Long, William Long, R. S. Maxwell, David Brown, Samuel M. Long, William Rodgers, Thomas M. Bradley, Charles Reed, Solomon Gregg.
Approved.
April term.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of a petition for an eating house: Jacob E. Rush, E. D. Waters, George Brown, J. B. Shank, George W. Shade, Jacob B. Markley, Nicholas Eagan, Felix W. Sweigert, William Miller, Thomas B. [Acheson], William Webb, Samuel F. Morrison.
Signers of remonstrance: [ ] Housekeeper, William W. Watson, Samuel P. Maxwell, Thomas J. Redman, William H. Potts, Charles Reed, Joseph Hackett, Samuel J. Trimble, William Chandler, William [Skithway], Andrew Barkley, John Welch, Sanders McCullough, William Ritchie, Edward Crawford, Robert Clark, Erastus Reynolds, Benjamin F. Scott, Isaac Rogers, Benjamin Cutler, J. M. Rawlins, William Ailes, Valentine Gardner, John McSparran, Thomas A. Clark, A. S. Clark, Joseph Kyle, James A. McPherson, Hugh H. McPherson, A. J. Ankrim, George Prall, Lindley C. Rutter, Samuel M. Ankrim, William Showalter, Abraham Cramer.
Signers of remonstrance: [ ] Housekeeper, Wiliam W. Watson, William H. Potts, William Chandler, Joseph Hackett, Abraham Cramer, A. S. Clark, Thomas A. Clark, Robert Clark, Lindley C. Rutter, R. J. Clark, J. Morgan Rawlins, J. A. Parker, Hugh H. McPherson, J. A. Potts.
January term.
4 items, 4 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Signers of a petition for an eating house: E. D. Waters, William Webb, [ ] Rush, Patrick Glackin, Alexander McCleary, G. W. Fagan, George H. Miller, Henry Eckman, William Hilton, Sylvester Linton, Cunningham Acheson, S. B. Moore, Samuel Harbison, Jacob B. Markley.
Signers of support-also a remonstrance agains Thomas McGuigan: Clarkson Jefferies, William J. Hess, W. A. McPherson, Samuel S. Kirkwood, J. E. Rush, John Stanley, John Cummins, Alexander McCleary, Thomas S. [Wilson], George H. Miller, Samuel Johnson, David Powel, James Shenk, John O. Bryan, Jacob [ ], David [ ] Joseph Groff, John Groff, Henry Phillip, Tobias Herr, Henry Eckman, George Stiver, Simon Lyne, John M. King, James Burnett, [ ] Deaver, Baltzer D. Eckman, Thomas M. Barret, Joseph B. Shank, [James Wicks], John Hawk, Joseph K. Ferguson, George H. Hughs, [ ] Moore, David L. Glackin, William McComb, John McKim, John Hoffman, Martin Fagan, Robert Blackburn, Walter Bunting, G. W. Sweigart, Charles W. Pusey, William S. Hastings, Lewis K. Todd, George Trimble, J. B. Markley, George Kiskaden, Tobias Sweinheart, John R. McCrabb, [Israel] Rhoads, T. R. Acheson, Mark Showalter, Charles [McManace], Adam Mowrer, James Johnson, Thomas Weldon, Edward Clark, Jeremiah Hess, George W. Burgeon, S. C. Martin, J. S. Morrison, William W. Steel, Thomas C. Kirkwood, Francis McCrabb, Isaac William Holland, Vincent S. Cooper, [ ] Cummings, John W. Guiles, John [Ducree], William Cambell, John M. Bishop, B. F. Sides, Cunningham Acheson, John Kisiner.
Signers of remonstrance: William Penny, James B. Long, Hugh M. Penny, David Brown, Samuel M. Long, Charles T. Todd.
April term.
4 items, 4 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
