The complete parish-officer : containing I. The authority and duty of high constables ... II. Of church-wardens, how chosen, their business in repairing of churches ... III. Of overseers of the poor, and their office ... IV. Of surveyors of the highways, and scavengers ... V. Of watchmen, their original and power : together with the statutes relating to hackney coaches and chairs, watermen, & c
Account book of Slater Brown, Little Britain Township, Fulton Township
Description
Account book of Slater Brown, Little Britain Township, Fulton Township.
Contains 197 paginated pages with verticle column lines, plus a 22 page front index and a 22 page up-side-down back index (blank), the tabs of both indexes were cut from the book pages. Also, 3 unpaginated leaves in front of the back index have account information from 1818, 1819 and 1821, plus 9 blank unpaginated in front of the back index.
Front Cover - Inside: "EARLY 19TH CENTURY; GRIST MILL LEDGER OF; SLAYTER BROWN, SON OF;THE QUAKER LEADER; JEREMIAH BROWN OF; PEACH BOTTOM" is written on bottom half.
Front Leaves: Are a 21 tabbed page index. The back sides of each tab are blank.
End Leaves: Are a 20 page tabbed index, The tabs are upside down and the pages are blank.
Back Cover - "Ledger A" is written on the outside of the back cover, back contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on.
Book references an itemized list of client profits and expenses, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling and grinding corn, wheat, clover seed, and rye as well as sawing boards. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages, transportation costs, and rent. The last page of the account book lists the work done at the schoolhouse in 1818 by helpers Peter and James. Three pressed ferns were also found within the account book (Pages. 1, 19, & 130).
Insert 1 - Blue donor card and 2 page Biographical sheets.
Son of Jeremiah Brown and brother of Judge Jeremiah Brown, Slater Brown was born in 1787 and inherited his father's mill in 1820. After continuing to grow the family mill and business, Slater died in 1855, leaving the mill to his son, Jeremiah Brown Jr.
Binding is damaged, top of back cover is not attached and top of spine has worn to the pages, cover has red rot; the last 33 pages are not attached at the top half of the pages.
Page in front of the back index is missing the bottom ~1".
Object ID
MG0963_F012
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Habeas Corpus paper of Letitia Kenady (Habeas 1814 F025)
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Slater Brown has a writ of habeas corpus against him from Letitia Kennedy.
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Credit
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Account Book of Slater Brown form Little Britain Township and Fulton Township
Description
Account Book of Slater Brown’s gristmill book D, from Little Britain Township and Fulton Township.
Contains 219 paginated ruled leaves with vertical column lines, plus 1 end leaf that is not paginated, and an 20 page index of clients, the last page of which has account information only.
Front Cover: "D." written in black on outside at top; inside has "ISAAC P. COOK" sold by book stamp. Inside cover is marbleized.
Back Cover - Inside cover is marbleized
Spine - "LEDGER" is stamped on the spine and the letter D was written at 3 places.
Front leaves - 2 leaves. The first leaf is marbleized on one side and has x'ed out 2 lines at the top.; second leaf has "Slater Brown Bern?" written on one side.
Back leaf - Only one that is marbleized on one side.
The letter "D" in written in black on the front cover and three times on the spine.
Book references an itemized list of customers profits and expenses, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for. The profits list ranges from selling and grinding corn, wheat, clover seed, and rye as well as sawing boards. The recorded expenses for the mill include employee wages, transportation costs, and rent.
Insert 1 - Blue donor card.
Insert 2 - 8 loose sheets, 3 are small pieces of paper.
Admin/Biographical History
From Donor Card:
Son of Jeremiah Brown and brother of Judge Jeremiah Brown, Slater Brown was born in 1787 and inherited his father's mill in 1820. After continuing to grow the family mill and business, Slater died in 1855, leaving the mill to his son, Jeremiah Brown Jr.
Book cover is damaged but intact. Red rot of cover and spine is present and the leather has worn to the base at places on the edges. Spine has separated at the top rear seam. Spine had "LEDGER" printed on it and what appears to be a vertical 1/2" burn mark at the top.
The following stamp in on the inside cover.
SOLD BY
ISAAC P. COOK,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
No. 37 Market street,, Baltimore,
Where a general assortment of
Books and Stationary may be
obtained at low prices.
Orders thankfully received.
The front and back page have separated from the spine. Pages are in good condition, except pages 212 through 218, that have a 6 inch section of lower edges roughly worn. This is minor damage.
Object ID
MG0963_F014
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Slater Brown has a writ of habeas corpus against him from Letitia Kennedy.
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
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A treatise on the construction of the statues, 13 Eliz. c. 5, and 27 Eliz. c. 4 : relating to voluntary and fraudulent conveyances, and on the nature and force of different considerations of support deeds and other legal instruments, in the courts of law and equity
A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason
The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self : haec ego grandaevus posui tibi candide lector
The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].
First part of the institutes of the laws of England
Edition
The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street and J. Walthoe in Vine-Court, Middle-Temple, adjoyning to the Cloysters,
Date of Publication
1703.
Physical Description
[5] leaves, 88 p., 394, [32] leaves, [1] folded leaf, [2] leaves of plates ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
A reprint of Littleton's Tenures, with a translation in English from Anglo-Norman (Law French), and commentary. Printed in parallel columns.
"Le Reading del mon Seignior Coke, 34 Eliz. anno 1592, sur lestatute de 27 E.I. appelle lestatute de finibus levatis" and "A treatise of bail & mainprize, written by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 1-27 of the 88 p. sequence; "The compleat copy-holder, being a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, with all things thereunto incident by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 29-88 of the 88 p. sequence.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
John Yeate's signature at top of title page under that of former owner J. Hartleys
Book number 755 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references, and index: "A table to the first part of the institutes of the laws of England."
The practical register: or, A general abridgment of the law, relating to the practice of the several courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer : digested by way of common-place, under alphabetical heads; with great variety of cases extracted from the reports and statutes; together with all the rules of the said courts
In the Savoy, printed by H. Lintot and sold by J. Shuckburgh,
Date of Publication
1745.
Physical Description
2 volumes 32 cm
Notes
Two issues of the 2d edition appeared in 1745, the 2d issue containing later rules and orders of the several courts and acts of Parliament. Paging of this issue v. 1, [18], 882 (i.e. 874), [6], 58 p. v. 2, 880, [6], 58 p.
Vol. 1: p. 145-154 omitted in numbering; p. 233-234 repeated in numbering.
"Some books lately printed for Messieurs Ward and Wicksteed in the Inner-Temple lane": v. 1, [1] page preceding text.
"Law books printed for and sold by Messieurs Ward and Wicksteed, in Inner-temple lane": v. 2, [1] page preceding supplement.
The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index
