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 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.
3 items, 3 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Recognizance, charged with not building a slope for his mill dam on the Conestoga River.
Recognizance.
Recognizance to testify.
Additional names: Martin Lighty, George Lenhart, Michael Reinhart, Stophel Franciscus, Daniel Ehler, John Light, John Wean, Peter Reed, Samuel Light, Jacob Light, John Fordney, John Trisler.
3 items, 3 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
