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Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
NARRS Files (Appearance Files)
Object ID
RG 01-00 2301
Date Range
1747-1873
Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
NARRS Files (Appearance Files)
Description
Civil proceedings papers filed in the Court of Common Pleas, showing court term, case number, names of parties, nature of plea, disposition, and date filed. NARRS files, also called appearance files, are civil court abstracts.
System of Arrangement
Filed chronologically by date, then case number.
Date Range
1747-1873
Year Range From
1747
Year Range To
1873
Date of Accumulation
1747-1873
Creator
Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, Office of the Prothonotary
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
Subjects
Court records
Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Lancaster County)
Search Terms
Court cases
Court of Common Pleas
Court records
Extent
165 boxes
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Object ID
RG 01-00 2301
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
These papers have not been processed or indexed. If requesting these papers, please allow staff extra time to fulfill this request.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please request at Reference Desk or Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Copyright
Copies of historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania government records held by LancasterHistory may be published without special permission. There is no fee for publication. Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation.
Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
RG 01-00 2301
Description Level
Series
Custodial History
Added to database 03 Feb 2024.
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Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
Civil Case Records
Object ID
RG 01-00 2308
Date Range
1743-1884
Collection
Lancaster County Historical Government Records
Title
Civil Case Records
Description
Eight hardbound volumes and a portfolio which contain records of civil suits, mostly among corporations. They list the names of plaintiffs, the attorneys, date and court term, and the instrument. Some contain indexes.
Contents and Object IDs:
Vol. 1 (1743-1869, incomplete) RG 01-00 2308-005
Vol. 2 (1837-1840) RG 01-00 2308-010
Vol. 3 (1853-1854) RG 01-00 2308-015
Vol. 4 (1867-1893) RG 01-00 2308-020
Vol. 5 (1883-1884) RG 01-00 2308-025
Date Range
1743-1884
Year Range From
1743
Year Range To
1884
Date of Accumulation
1743-1884
Creator
Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, Office of the Prothonotary
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives North
Subjects
Court records
Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Lancaster County)
Search Terms
Court cases
Court of Common Pleas
Court records
Indexes
Extent
5 volumes
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Object ID
RG 01-00 2308
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection, Title and Object ID, Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please request at Reference Desk or Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Copyright
Copies of historic Lancaster County, Pennsylvania government records held by LancasterHistory may be published without special permission. There is no fee for publication. Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation.
Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
RG 01-00 2308
Description Level
Series
Custodial History
Added to database 03 Feb 2024.
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303
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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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
FEB 1797 F004 QS
Date Range
1797/02
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1797/02
Year
1797
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Hamilton, James
Shireman, Jacob Sr.
Shireman, Jacob Jr.
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Recognizance
Charge: obstructing the legal process
Constables
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
FEB 1797 F004 QS
Additional Notes
Recognizance, charged with opposing the Constable.
Additional names: Jacob Shireman Sr., Jacob Shireman Jr.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1799 F032 QS
Date Range
1799
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Date Range
1799
Year
1799
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Harkins, John
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Chester County, Pennsylvania
East Nantmill, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Order for removal
Overseers of the Poor of East Nantmill Twp.
Overseers of the Poor of Salisbury Twp.
Quarter Sessions
Salisbury Twp.
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1799 F032 QS
Additional Notes
Order of removal from the Overseers of the Poor of Salisbury Twp. to the Overseers of the Poor of East Nantmill Twp., Chester County.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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The practice of the courts of King's bench and Common pleas. Originally compiled by George Crompton, esq. Revised, corrected, and newly arranged

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22127
Author
Crompton, George,
Edition
2d ed., with the addition of the modern cases to the present time , and a practical treatise on the mode of passing fines and suffering recoveries ...
Date of Publication
1798.
Call Number
Book 981 1798
Book 982 1798
Responsibility
by Baker John Sellon ...
Author
Crompton, George,
Edition
2d ed., with the addition of the modern cases to the present time , and a practical treatise on the mode of passing fines and suffering recoveries ...
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Butterworth,
Date of Publication
1798.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Notes
Originally published , 1780, under title: Practice common-placed; or, The rules and cases of practice in the courts of King's bench and Common pleas.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 781and892 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Fines and recoveries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Fines and recoveries.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Sellon, B. J.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 981 1798
Book 982 1798
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Proceedings in the House of representatives of the United States of America : respecting the contested election for the eastern district of the state of Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21182
Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCII [1792]
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1792
Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Parry Hall, no 149, Chesnut street, between Fourth and Fifth streets,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCII [1792]
Physical Description
71 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
This is the case of the election of Anthony Wayne contested by James Jackson.
Erratum p. 71.
"The reason page 45 follows that of 40, is that Mr. Lewis's defence was not printed in the regular course of the work; and did not make as many pages as were allotted for it."--Page 40.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 459 as assigned byYeates.
Bound with An address, etc. recommendations to the states, by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783; -- An examaination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Evans
Subjects
Wayne, Anthony, - 1745-1796.
Jackson, James, - 1757-1806.
Jackson, James, - 1757-1806
Wayne, Anthony, - 1745-1796
United States. - Congress. - House - Contested elections.
United States. - Congress. - House.
Contested elections - Georgia.
Contested elections.
Politics and government
Georgia - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Georgia.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Hall, Parry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1792
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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19629
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Call Number
220 E48 1796
Responsibility
translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, and the Apocrypha, with marginal references.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Berriman & Co. by Jacob R. Berriman,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description
[752] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 42 cm
Notes
The New Testament (p. [589-735]) has separate title page.
Signatures: pi² B-9C² 9D¹.
Printed in two columns. Plates engraved by Francis Shallus, Alexander Anderson, Cornelius Tiebout, William Rollinson, and Amos Doolittle.
Includes index.
Pasted on the inside cover are obituaries, a will, and a photograph of a child.
Manuscript of marriages and deaths of the Ellmaker family on two front flyleaves.
Obituaries, oath of allegience and genealogy information in back inside cover.
Loose items removed to MG-399, Ellmaker family bible include: Reward of merit presented to Miss Savina Maines June 3, 1842 by Samuel Cowen, instructor, a newspaper clipping "A cure for small-pox" removed from New Testament title page and an envelope addressed to J. Watson Ellmaker, Intercourse, Lancaster Co., Pa.
Viewing bible contingent on staff availibility, an appointment may be required.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Old Testament -- New Testament of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised with marginal references.
Subjects
Bible records - Massachusetts.
Leather bindings.
Gold tooled bindings.
Marbled papers.
Additional Author
Shallus, Francis.
Anderson, Alexander,
Tiebout, Cornelius,
Rollinson, William,
Doolittle, Amos,
Berriman, Jacob R.
Ellmaker family
Buffum family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 E48 1796
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
MAY 1799 F001 QS
Date Range
1799/05
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Date Range
1799/05
Year
1799
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Dollton, James
Downing, David
Irwin, James
London
McGinley, Neil
McNeil, Barney
Odenwalt, George
Ruth, Thomas
Shaeffer, David
Solomon
Zimmerman, Christian
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Persons of color
Prisoners
Prisons
Quarter Sessions
Return of prisoners
Returns
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
MAY 1799 F001 QS
Additional Notes
Return of prisoners.
London, African-American.
Soloman, African-American.
Barney McNeil.
James Irwin.
David Shaeffer.
James Dollton.
George Odenwalt.
Neil McGinley.
Thomas Ruth.
Christian Zimmerman.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1799 F020 QS
Date Range
1799/11
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Date Range
1799/11
Year
1799
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives West
People
Bill
Duglas, Robert
Funck, John
Gallagher, Charles
George
Hastings, Henry
London
McColgin, John
McDonnal, Peirce
Messer, John
Monzeto, George
Nichlas, Conrad
Slough, Mathias
Zanzinger, Paul
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Jails
Persons of color
Prisoners
Prisons
Quarter Sessions
Return of prisoners
Returns
Object Name
Record, Judicial
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1799 F020 QS
Notes
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. As a historical resource, this document reflects the racial prejudices and actions of the era. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
Additional Notes
Return of prisoners or jail calendar.
London, African-American.
Charles Gallagher.
Henry Hastings.
George, African-American.
John McColgin.
Conrad Nicholas.
John Messer.
Peirce McDonnal.
John Funck.
George Monzeto.
Robert Douglas.
Bill, African-American.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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