The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
Note on back of picture: This large stone house was typical of the ones built by the more prosperous farmers and millers of early Lancaster County. It was located on the south side of the Columbia turnpike west of Maple Grove. The building was torn down in 1972 to make way for a fast-food restaurant. Close up of "Old Mill" see picture "Abbeville Mill" torn down April 1972.