Located on the road leading from the Blue Ball to Lancaster.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Lewis L. Custer, William Sprecher, Daniel Hoover, Joseph Hoover, John Hoover, A. L. Custer, Isaac Smoker, Samuel Bachman, [signature in German], Samuel Stoltzfus, John Petersheim, John Stoltzfus.
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Signers of Petition: Benjamin B. Miller, Peter Miller, David Bender, Martin Groff, John Sheaffer, [Christian Grebill], Ephraim Bear, Henry Myers, Samuel Ressler, Abraham Groff, Joseph Myer, [Jacob Hoober].
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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: Hanson B. Jacobs, James McCaa, B. F. Bunn, Jacob Jameson, Abraham Lincoln, S. F. Jacobs, John S. Hurst, Andrew Robeson, A. W. Martin, E. D. White, J. K. Kurtz, David Styer.
Bond: E. D. White, James McCaa.
Receipt to keep a tavern.
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Located on the Blue Ball and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: Aaron L. Custer, John Sheaffer, Samuel Stoltzfus, Abraham Groff, William Sprecher, John Petersheime, Isaac Sprecher, Henry Rutter, Lewis Custer, John Myers, Samuel Bachman, [signature in German].
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Located on the Lancaster and New Holland turnpike, at the junction of road leading from Hinkletown with the turnpike.
Petition granted.
January term.
Signers of petition: John Graybill, Abraham Groff, Jacob Brubaker, Samuel Clark, John W. Groff, John Good, Levi Good, Christian Good, Michael Good, Ephraim Bare, David Bender, James Vogan.
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Located on the Lancaster and New Holland turnpike near the west end of New Holland.
Petition granted.
April term.
Signers of Petition: A. L. Custer, Samuel Stoltzfus, Lewis Winters, [signature in German], Isaac Brubaker, Samuel Bachman, Lewis Murr, John Singer, Jacob Singer, John Stoltzfoos, Henry Roland, Henry Weidman, Joseph Jones, Jacob Weidman, Gabriel Davis, John R. Brubaker, Isaac Holl, William Holl.
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Signers of Petition: William Child, Frederick Nagle, Stephen St. John, Samuel Heuston, Brice Curran, P. Longenecker, George Deyer, Henry Cover, Christian Hechler, Michael Keller, Peter Frank, D. C. Whitehill, Elijah Russell, John Huss, Henry Haines, Francis Boggs, Andrew Noble, William Maxwell, Jacob Graybill.
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Signers of Petition: Frederick Frank, William Green, Stephen St. John, James Noble, Samuel Haines, Robert B. Clarkson, Henry Liebhart, Samuel McKinney, George Deyer, John Roberts, John Gries, Samuel Oberlin, John Kauffman, David Cassel, Christian Hertsler.
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