Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Description
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-205
Classification
MG0205
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.
The Frank R. Diffenderffer Collection contains documents collected by Mr. Diffenderffer. These documents are primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and include letters, legal and court papers, indentures, receipts, property and probate records, and financial and military papers. The people and businesses represented include George Ross, Jasper Yeates, A. Herr Smith, Timothy Matlack, Mount Hope Furnace, and the Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Road Company.
George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, Ephemera
Description
The George Steinman Papers, Series 2 is a collection of original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera primarily compiled by George Steinman. The contents of Series 2 represent Lancaster city and county events, prominent citizens, buildings, monuments, churches, cemeteries, schools, and businesses. Most of what Steinman collected relates to 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania, highlighting Lancaster and Philadelphia. One of the key events highlighted is the Revolutionary war; with documents and images related to Philadelphia, George Washington, the Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Riot and to various buildings in early Lancaster; including but not limited to the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite's Tavern. Also included in the collection is currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1764, and Confederate States currency and bonds.
4 boxes, 112 folders, 1029 items, 3125 pages to scan, 2 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0184_S02
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Copies
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
George Steinman Papers, Series 1 (MG0184_S01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/786b3ffc-7908-40de-9362-817467455650
Please see the Photograph Collection for photographs referenced in this finding aid.
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), George Steinman Papers (MG0184), Series 2, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restricted access. Patrons wishing to view the Steinman Album or the contents of the boxes must make an appointment with the Archives Staff at least two weeks prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-184, Series 2
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Finding aid for Boxes 1-4 prepared by JE, 2018. Many of the documents, photographs, and ephemera from this collection were separated and placed in other collections in the mid to late twentieth century. In 2018, an intern was able to find most of those items and returned them to the folders within this collection.
Added to database 26 March 2022.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
"Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."
Reports of select cases in all the court of Westminster-hall, also the opinion of all the judges of England relating to the grandest prerogative of the royal family, and some observations relating to the prerogative of a queen consort
1 preliminary leaf, xxxvi, [8], 440, [24] pages 33 cm
Notes
Chiefly cases in the Court of King's Bench, 1695-1738, with the preface that appeared in Lord Fortescue's new edition of Sir John Fortescue's work "The difference between an absolute and limited monarchy", 1714; and followed by articles entitled: Precedence, etc. of the judges: p. 382-397; Aurum reginæ: p. 398-400; The grand opinion for the prerogative concerning the royal family: p. 401-440.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page among those of four previous owners.
Book number 719 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Precedence, etc. of the judges -- Aurum reginæ -- The grand opinion for the prerogative concerning the royal family.
"Freeman's Law and Chancery reports (now in separate volumes) were first published together in one volume, folio, in 1742. They were often cited 1 and 2 Freeman, respectively." cf. Soule, Lawyers' reference manual, 1884, p. 96.
Each part has special t.p. and separate paging.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 140 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, from 1670 to 1683. -- Cases argued and decreed in the High Court of Chancery, from 1676 to 1706.
Reports of cases determined in the Court of King's Bench : together with some other cases : from Trin. 12 Geo. I. to Trin. 7 Geo. II. [1726-1734] with tables of the names of the cases and of the principal matters
The second edition corrected, with many thousand additional references to the ancient and modern books of authority ; and three tables. The first, of the names of the cases. The second, of alphabetical heads to which the cases relate. The third, of the principal matters.
The second edition corrected, with many thousand additional references to the ancient and modern books of authority ; and three tables. The first, of the names of the cases. The second, of alphabetical heads to which the cases relate. The third, of the principal matters.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
In the Savoy : Printed by R. and B. Nutt, and F. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq); and sold by T. Osborne in Gray's Inn, D. Browne without Temple Bar, J. Worrall, in Bell Yard, and F. Gosling in Fleet-Street.,
The Yeates, Carson Collection covers several generations and a variety of topics and gives insight into family and local social history from 1700-1874. The items in the collection include business and legal papers, receipts, estate accounts, correspondence, a biographical sketch of Jasper Yeates' grandfather, land surveys, indentures, financial records, and land agreements. The collection also contains a list of books sent to Phineas Bond for binding, certificates with seals, copies of poems, eviction notices, and requests for items to be delivered to Simon Girty and others in 1776.
MG0205 Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/cd817511-4306-430b-9f8f-242553026746
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org for permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-207
Classification
MG0207
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to database 6 August 2022.