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 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.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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.
1 item, 1 piece
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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.
1 item, 1 piece
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.
