Signers of Petition: Lewis Frederick Levering, Evan Bricker, Daniel Bentz, Benjamin Mooney, Jacob Lupold, Jacob Miller, John Hornberger, [signature in German], John Zartman, William Fausset, Charles Fausset, Samuel H. Miller.
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Located on the Downingtown, Ephrata and Harrisburg turnpike at the crossing from Lancaster to Scheafferstown.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Miller, C. P. Miller, Samuel H. Miller, George H. Miller, John Steiner, Daniel Bentz, Isaac Bricker, John B. Erb, Evan Bricker, Christian Bentz, Martin Weidman, Hiram [Erb].
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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.
Recognizance, charged with disorderly house; harboring an apprentice servants.
Additional names: George Peters, Daniel Ehler, John Bender, Christian Kurtz, John Guest, Jacob Roth, Henry Pinkerton, John Bomberger, Matthew Zahm, Jacob Shaffer, John Maxwell, George Hoofnagle, John Riddle.
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Recognizance, charged with disorderly house; harboring an apprentice servants.
Additional names: George Peters, Daniel Ehler, Conrad Swartz, John Bender, Christian Kurtz, John Guest, Jacob Roth, Henry Pinkerton, John Bomberger, Andy Sheridan, Matthew Zahm, Jacob Shaffer, George Gwinner, John Maxwell, George Hoofnagel, Isaac Britzius.
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Note on document, "a very noted old offender, who ought to be if possible secured and confined, was committed to jail."
Recognizance, charged with stealing from the poor house by Michael Musser, Jacob Eberman Directors of the Poor House of Employment of Lancaster County.
Additional names: Michael Musser, Jacob Eberman, John Wien, Peter Hoofnagel, Daniel Ehler, Wilder Bevins, John Mays, Nancy Mays, Thomas Flanaghan, Margaret Flanaghan, Christina Booth, Thomas Clark.
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Recognizance, charged with stealing items from Micheal Martin.
Deposition of William Michael.
Additional names: Thomas Clark, Thomas Flanaghan, Margaret Flanaghan, John May, Nancy May, Jacob Eberman, Peter Hoofnagle, Daniel Ehler, Adam Weaver, Christina Booth.
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Located on the Downingtown, Ephrata and Harrisburg turnpike, at the crossroads leading from Lebanon to Lancaster.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of petition: Evan Bricker, Thomas C. Callihan, Daniel Bentz, Elias Eby, Jacob Miller, [J. H.] McCausland, Christian Brubacher, Ludwig Fidler, Charles B. Forney, Jesse Pannabecker, Samuel H. Miller, [ ] Ferguson.
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Widow of John Bricker, second petitioner is son Isaac Bricker.
Located on the road leading from Lebanon via Sheafferstown, Elizabeth Furnace to Lancaster crossing the Downingtown, Ephrata and Harrisburg turnpike.
Petition not granted.
April term.
Signers of petition: Martin Weidman, Jacob Miller, John Hackman, Daniel Bentz, Henry Herchelroth, Peter Martin Jr., Elias Stober, Peter Weidman, John Erb, John Eby, Elias Eby, N. Ferguson, Samuel H. Miller, Thomas Callihar.
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Recognizance, charged in association with stolen linen.
Additional names: Edward Stewart, John Wean, John Riddel, Daniel Ehler, Hughy McGrant, Jane Beavens, wife of Wilder Beavens, Ann Howard, Caty Preison, William Flick, John Wean.
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Recognizance, charged with keeping a tippling house.
Additional names: John Eberman, Henry Pinkerton, Paul Dewees, Daniel Ehler, Samuel Kindig, John Brown, James Clendenin, Benjamin Galloway, James Gibbons, John Murphy.
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