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Guide to records of the Court of Common Pleas, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1900 : records of the prothonotary, civil records of the sheriff, select civil records of the Circuit Court of Chester County, and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4492

Author: Catanese, Lynn Ann,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 974.813 C357

Responsibility: researched and compiled by Lynn Ann Catanese.

Author: Catanese, Lynn Ann,

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: Chester County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: iv, 139 p., 1 leaf of plates : 1 facsim ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 122-126.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Court of Common Pleas (Chester County) - Archives.; Court records - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 C357

Records of the courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania [1697-1710]: v.2

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Corporate Author: Chester County (Pa.). Courts.

Date of Publication: 1972.

Call Number: 974.813 L316

Responsibility: Transcribed by Miss Dorothy Lapp under the auspices of the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Corporate Author: Chester County (Pa.). Courts.

Place of Publication: Danboro, Pa

Publisher: Richard T. & Mildred C. Williams,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: 211, 43 p. 29 cm.

Notes: "Volume 1 was published in 1910 by The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania."; Includes records of the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions and General Court.

Subjects: Court Records - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Chester County (Pa.) - History - Sources.; Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Lapp, Dorothy B.

Additional Corporate Author: Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 L316

Guide to records of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1969 : records of the clerk of courts, records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, criminal records of the sheriff

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Author: Catanese, Lynn Ann,

Date of Publication: 1989, c 1988.

Call Number: 974.813 C357q

Responsibility: researched and compiled by Lynn Ann Catanese.

ISBN: 0929706048 :

Author: Catanese, Lynn Ann,

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: Chester County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1989, c 1988.

Physical Description: ii, 80 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 62-67.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Court of Quarter Sessions (Chester County) - Archives - Catalogs.; Court records - Pennsylvania - Chester County; Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy - Bibliography - Catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: Chester County Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 C357q

Extracts from the early court records of Chester County, Pa

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Author: Wilson, H.

Date of Publication: 1931

EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to

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Responsibility: by H. Wilson.

Author: Wilson, H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1931

Physical Description: 247-252 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 10

Subjects: Court records - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 10 (1931), p. 247-252Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35

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An index to the will books and intestate records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850 : with an historical sketch and classified bibliography

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Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 346.054 F974; 346.3054 F974

Alternate Title: Will index, Lancaster County, PA 1729-1850.

Responsibility: prepared by Eleanore Jane Fulton and Barbara Kendig Mylin.

Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: ix, 136 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1936 ed.; Spine title: Will books & intestate records, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Bibliography: p. 111-136.

Subjects: Probate records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Indexes.; Wills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Mylin, Barbara Kendig.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference; Lancaster History Archive - Government Record

Call Number: 346.054 F974; 346.3054 F974

Lancaster County miscellaneous papers, 1724-1816

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15187

Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.

Notes: Shares reel with Lancaster county docket of cases, 1743-1749 and the Hamilton family letterbook, 1782-1790.; Labeled on box # 245 Part 1.; 500 items.; Miscellaneous papers relating to local government and economic affairs of Lancaster County: letters, 1733-1740, of Samuel Blunston to the proprietors, deal with the disputes between the Maryland and Pennsylvania authorities, land transactions, Indians on the Susquehanna, politics, legal matters, etc; letters of Thomas Cookson, George Craig, William Parsons, Richard Peters, George Smith, and others, 1739-1764; material on Conrad Weiser, 1756; accounts of Indian massacres, 1755; petitions, court records, surveys, indentures, land warrants, tax returns; petitions and lists of names of tavern keepers, 1766, 1769; account of the plan of the town of York, 1749; list of books added to the Lancaster library, ca. 1770; list of subscribers for the relief of inhabitants of Boston, Mass., 1774; military accounts and muster rolls, 1776; wills, estate papers, broadsides, and other items.; Original manuscript in collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.; For a photocopied index to this collection see LC 016 I38 Oversize.

Subjects: Cookson, Thomas, - 1709-1753. . . .; Craig, George.; Parsons, William, - 1701-1757.; Peters, Richard, - 1704-1776.; Smith, George.; Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760.; Blunston, Samuel, 1689-1745.; Paxton Boys.; Cresap's War; Court records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Indexes.; Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Lists.; Taverns (Inns) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Bibliography; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Susquehana Indians.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Militia.; York (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245

Index to Chester County, Pennsylvania wills and intestate records, 1713-1850

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo699

Author: Anderson, Bart.

Date of Publication: 1970.

Call Number: 974.813 A545

Responsibility: Compiled by Bart Anderson, Dorothy B. Lapp [and] Marwood Darlington.

Author: Anderson, Bart.

Place of Publication: Danboro, Pa

Publisher: R. T. and M. C. Williams,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Physical Description: 224 p. 29 cm.

Notes: "[Published] in conjunction with the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania."

Subjects: Probate records - Pennsylvania - Chester County

Additional Author: Lapp, Dorothy B.; Darlington, Marwood,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 A545

Millers of Chester and Lancaster Counties from Witmer's maps of Chester County, 1873 and Atlas of Lancaster County 1864

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Call Number: 905.748 OASH v.5, no.2

Notes: In: Octorara Area Historical Society ,v.5, no.2.

Subjects: Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Sadsbury (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.; East Fallowfield (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.; West Fallowfield (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Highland (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 OASH v.5, no.2

Chester county collections

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17796

Date of Publication: [1936-

Call Number: 974.813 C525

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: Anderson & Darlington

Date of Publication: [1936-

Physical Description: v. illus. (incl. maps, facsims.) 29 cm.

Publication Frequency: Bimonthly (irregular)

Dates of Publication: no. 1- Oct. 1936-

Notes: Mimeographed.; Nos. 1-6 include installments of "Chester county newspapers", by Ethel M. Sauer, and no. 7, "Chester county periodicals", by the same author.; LCHS has vol. 1-16.

Subjects: American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Bibliography.; American periodicals - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Bibliography.; Chester County (Pa.) - History - Periodicals.; Chester County (Pa.) - History - Sources.; Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy - Periodicals.

Additional Author: Sauer, Ethel Marion.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 C525

Chester County, Pennsylvania inventories, 1684-1850

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Author: Schiffer, Margaret Berwind.

Date of Publication: 1974.

Call Number: 974.813 S333i

Responsibility: by Margaret B. Schiffer.

Author: Schiffer, Margaret Berwind.

Place of Publication: Exton, Pa

Publisher: Schiffer Pub.,

Date of Publication: 1974.

Physical Description: 402 p. ; 29 cm.

Summary: Over 10,000 estate inventories, dating from 1682 to 1850, were examined to produce this record of possessions in an early rural county. The author provides lists of possessions broken down by type and by decade. For instance, the section on CLOTHING is broken down into 71 separate items, e.g. Pantalets, Pantaloons, Pants, Pelisse, Petticoat, Pocket, Pocket-book, Purse, Robe, Safe guard, Scarf, Shawl, Shift, etc. Within the tables for each item, the author may break down the item by color or type. For instance, in the CLOTHING>Apron table, there is a breakdown which includes the following: green, flowered muslin, green grazet silk, blue, blue holland, checked, white, leather, etc. The breakdown of possessions by decades can provide a general idea of when certain possessions were popular in Chester County. For instance, in the section TEXTILES> Velvet, velvet doesn't begin to appear until 1740 and becomes more popular from 1780-1810; but it becomes less popular in the period from 1820-1849. Each section begins with a dictionary with definitions of the separate items; for example a "safe guard" is "a sort of Dust-Gown, or Riding Garment, worn by Women; also a coloured Stuff Apron; also a swathing Bond for Children". Overall, this book is a unique compilation of local government records being used to understand patterns of ownership of household items.

Subjects: Inventories of decedents' estates - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Chester County (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 S333i

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