Liens filed by contractors showing names of parties including owner of property; Description of property including location; nature of claim; Description of materials and work done on property; volume and page number of recording in Mechanics' Liens Docket; and date filed.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by date filed.
Date Range
1837, 1840-1869
Year Range From
1837
Year Range To
1869
Date of Accumulation
1837, May 1840 - Apr 1858, 1861 - 1869, incomplete
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Incomplete (inc.) denotes large gaps in the record group.
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Transcribed testimony of witnesses taken at various locations away from the courtroom, including out of state. Show names of parties in the cases, attorneys involved, date and location of deposition, and name of deponent. Handwritten.
System of Arrangement
Arranged by court term and case number, even though deposition could be filed several years after original action.
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A volunteer sorted through this collection in 2013 and matched documents with cases in the NARRS collection.
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These hardbound volumes list records of cases for trial, showing the names of the plaintiff and defendant, the complaint, outcome, and costs. Entered chronologically by term date. Handwritten.
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These volumes contain records of civil proceedings, showing court terms and case numbers, the names of the plaintiffs and defendants, the attorneys presiding, the type and nature of instrument, cause of action, and disposition. Handwritten.
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Record of habeas corpus proceedings, showing dates of issue and return, names of defendant and custodian of prisoner, nature of writ, time and place of delivery, and disposition. Incomplete index in the back of the docket. Handwritten.
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Located on North Queen Street, on the railroad, in the North West Ward.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Myers, John B. Frick, Frederick Dern, John Kuhns, Emanuel VanKanan, Frederick Lutz, John Wittmeyer, Jacob [Gruel], [unknown signature], John [Flick], Robert Moderwell, George H. Metzger, John Sehner.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Jacob Huber Jr., Daniel Harman, George Diller, H. W. Gundaker, Jacob Weaver, Henry M. Miller, [J. Frey], Samuel Lightner, Adam Dellet, William Wilson, John Masterson, H. H. Harman, Charles Boughter, R. F. Rauch, George [Ford].
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Isaac Hubley, E. W. Carpenter, David [Lebkicher], W. Whiteside, A. Steward, John Steigerwalt, Christian Stroble, Robert Powers, Martin Harnish, [signature in German], Jacob Greiner, Thomas Silvius.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: C. Hager, Jacob G. Getz, John C. Hager, E. B. Rose, S. S. Spencer, A. Herr Smith, Henry Gibbs, J. M. Lowe, William Locher, John [Fluent], Jacob H. Gamber, George M. Steinman, Daniel Rhoads, Peter McConomy, George [K. Meeser].
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: Michael Ehrman, George B. Hamilton, Thomas Jefferies, Owen [Hopple], Joseph Brintnall, H. E. Leman, H. Hambright, Eli Overdeer, D. E. Lechler, H. F. Benedict, Frederick Kline, George Beachy, William Hensel, John Erisman, Jonathan Foltz, David Longenecker.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: John H. Pearsol, G. B. Markley, [unknown signature], H. Shubert, Joseph Cross, Daniel Leman, Isaac Dunn, George W. Curry, Adam W. [Amwell], C. M. Clewell, J. Augustus Beck, Daniel Leman, Isaac Dunn, Abraham R. Zell, Nelson Nutt, John [Cross], J. W. Davis, Henry Metzger, John L. Samson, J. M. [Bakil], George W. [Gorrich], F. Smith, E. Kirkpatrick, Samuel J. Jackson.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: William Lowry, Charles T. Gould, John Metzger, Lewis Levering, William Groff, Thomas C. Weiley, E. S. Hubley, William Mathiot, George B. Kerfoot, A. B. Kaufman, Charles E. Wentz, W. Gleim, M. D. Holbrook, [C. G. Youngman], Hiram Kendig, A. F. Hambright, Charles Nauman, William T. [Youart], David E. Lechler, James Wiley, George Boyle, F. [Keenan], H. T. Brooks, Mathew McGrann, Michael McGrann, J. J. Keller, M. Carpenter, W. Frick, J. Albright, M. Goldschmith, George McDonald, Joseph Brintall, B. M. Foltz, W. Carpenter, Walter G. Evans, J. H. Kurtz, J. Gonnley, H. C. Wentz, J. C. VanCamp.
1 item, 1 piece
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Signers of petition: John Hensler, [unknown signature], B. McGonigle, [B. Connor], Samuel Johnson, Michael McGonigle, [signature in German], Frederick Gemperling, William Leonard, Philip Leonard, Frederick Miller, John McGrann.
1 item, 1 piece
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Located on the New Holland turnpike, North East Ward.
April term.
Signers of petition: Michael Malone, [Marthy Malon], John Fondersmith, John Malone, John Jones, Adam Matzer, Daniel Rees, Frederick Hensel, D. E. Lechler, S. G. Musser, Samuel Rupley, Jacob Zecher.
1 item, 1 piece
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Located on the North Queen Street, near the railroad, North East Ward.
April term.
Signers of petition: Peter Gerber, Jacob McCulley, [unknown signature], Michael Kelly, Michael Gross, Owen Hepple, Frederick Kline, Jacob Musketnuss, Henry Nauman, John Donnelly, John Huston, Henry [Fines].
1 item, 1 piece
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