A record of warrants issued to open streets in the city of Lancaster. Pages are pre-printed forms with spaces to record date, court term, name of street, petitioner, jurors and viewers, court order, condemnation proceeding, costs, and signature of clerk. Arranged chronologically and indexed by street name.
Rights
May not be photocopied.
Notes
Finding aid in the repository: Local government records.
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
See Table of Contents and finding aid for details.
Contents
v. 005. 1729-1741 -- v. 010. 1742-1756 -- v. 015. 1756-1760 -- v. 020. 1760-1765 -- v. 025. 1770-1773 -- v. 030. 1770-1775 -- v. 035. 1776-1782 -- v. 040. 1782-1787 -- v. 045. 1788-1791 -- v. 050. 1797-1803 -- v. 055. 1804-1813 -- v. 060. 1813-1820 -- v. 065. 1827-1835 -- v. 070. 1833-1834 -- v. 075. 1843-1844 -- v. 080. 1849-1850 -- v. 085. 1851-1853 -- v. 090. 1853-1854 -- v. 095. 1854-1855 -- v. 100. 1855-1857 -- v. 105. 1858-1860 -- v. 110. 1860-1861 -- v. 115. 1862-1863 -- v. 120. 1863-1864 -- v. 125. 1865-1866 -- v. 130. 1866 -- v. 135. 1867 -- v. 140. 1868 -- v. 145. 1869 -- v. 150. 1870 -- v. 155. 1871 -- v. 160. 1872 -- v. 165. 1873 -- v. 170. 1874-1875 -- v. 175. 1876-1877 -- v. 180. 1878-1879 -- v. 185. 1880 -- v. 190. 1881 -- v. 195. 1882 -- v. 200. 1883 -- v. 205. 1884 -- v. 210. 1885 -- v. 215. 1886 -- v. 220. 1887 -- v. 225. 1888-1889 -- v. 230. 1890-1891 -- v. 235. 1892-1893 -- v. 240. 1894-1896 -- v. 245. 1896-1897 -- v. 250. 1898-1899 -- v. 255. 1900-1901.
Summary
Record of all proceedings of the Court of Quarter Sessions. Show court term and case number, names of parties, charge, costs, and disposition. Vol. 12 (1813-1820) is only an index for some of the sessions, arranged alphabetically by defendant's surname and chronologically by court session. Sessions for 1792-1796 are found in the Road Docket. Handwritten.
Surviving early records of York County, Pennsylvania : more precisely being an alphabetical listing of all names found in York County Court of Quarter Sessions docket books for 1749-1754 and true copies of 5 known "Quarter Sessions" documents for 1749-1754 not recorded (abstracted) in the docket books, plus a surname index to same
Rules of the Court of Common Pleas, Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County, Pa.; together with the equity rules and the rules of the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania, also rules relating to requisitions and rules of the Board of Pardons
Surviving early records of York County, Pennsylvania : more precisely being abstracts of all known existing documents submit[t]ed to York County Court of Quarter Sessions during 1749-1754, plus an all inclusive surname index
The life and confession of Henry Smith, who was found guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Lancaster, Pa. in January, 1838 : of the murder of Benjamin Peart, and sentenced to be executed within the walls of the Lancaster County Jail, on the 11th of May 1838
The office of the clerk of assize : containing the form and method of the proceedings at the Assizes and General Gaol-Delivery as also on the crown and nisi prius side : together with The office of the clerk of the peace : shewing the true manner and form of the proceedings at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace : wih divers forms of presentments and other precedents at assizes and sessions : with a table of fees thereunto belonging
Philadelphia naturalization records : an index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of allegiance, 1789-1880, in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia
Rev. version of an index originally issued as: Index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of allegiance 1789-1880 in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia (Section 2 of Alphabetical index of naturalization records, 1794-1880, of maritime records, Port of Philadelphia [1940])
The original manuscript of which this index formed a part was compiled by Work Projects Administration Project no. 20837 and was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
