Bonds posted by constables, showing names of constable and surety; date and amount of bond; conditions of obligation; signatures of constable, surety, and witnesses; and date filed. Arr. chron. by date filed. No index. Hdw. and typed on ptd. fm.
Admin/Biographical History
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System of Arrangement
Arranged by year; alphabetical by surname with in year.
Signers of Petition: G. Longenecker, John Senor, Andrew Tryer, George Hartley, Jonas Dorwart, David Brady, George Dorwart, Samuel Slaymaker, David R. Barton, Martin Shreiner, Jacob Dickert, Samuel Carpenter, George Hambright, William Dickson, George Matter, Jacob Sherer, Martin Miller, Jacob Leman, John Gundacker, Philip Messenkop, and one other.
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Signers of Petition: Joseph Blaneford, Andrew Tryer, John Kleiss, George Ross, George Hartley, David Brady, George Matter, George Musser, William Dickson, John Whiteside, George Weaver, John Hoff, John Gundacker, Phillip Messenkop, Sam Carpenter and one other.
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Signers of Petition: Philip Messenkop, Michael Diedrick, Jacob Shever, David Longenecker, John Kleiss, Jonas Dorwart, Samuel Humes, William Dickson, George Matter, Samuel Carpenter, John Light, Leonard Eichholtz, Samuel Reigart, John Whiteside, Christopher Bremmer, John Gundacker, John Hoff, John Burg, and one other.
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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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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.
