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.
Signers of Petition: Roland Diller, F. Seeger, Gabriel David, Samuel Zieber, Samuel Ringwalt, Henry Roland, Jacob Diffenderfer, Michael Diffenderfer, Aaron L. Custer, Solomon Diller, George Harkey, David Stone, [signature in German], Christian Brimmer, Isaac Winters, Lewis L. Custer, John Winters, Benjamin Diffenderfer.
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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.
Located on the road from Columbia to Christian Huber's mill.
Petition allowed.
Signers of Petition: John Swar, Henry Bear, John Bachman, Christian Huber, George Hambright, John Huber, J. Long, J. Long Jr., Henry Lichty, Dan Reigart, Samuel Carpenter, George Miller, James Humes, Thomas R. Jordan, Peter Steman, William Dickson.
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Signers of Petition: Peter Haldeman, James Long, Richard Derrick, John Harnes, Michael Strein, Henry Sourbeer, B. Haldeman, Jacob Luttman, Samuel Harmes, Isaac Vaughen, Henry D. Eagle, George C. Lloyd.
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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.
Signers of petition: Peter Haldeman, J. W. Cottrell, Robert Spear, John E. Collins, Joseph J. Strickler, J. C. Pfahler, Jonas Rumple, Conrad Swartz, Joshua Vaughen, George C. Lloyd, Isaac Vaughen, Henry Pfahler, Francis Bradley, John Vaughen.
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