A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
"The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.
Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Evans
Summary
This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]
Journal of the first session of the tenth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-fourth
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1799, both days inclusive."--Page 59, [1] p. at end, with separate title page.
"Report of the register-general of the state of Pennsylvania for the year 1799"--18 p. at end, with separate title page.
The Pennsylvania state trials: : containing the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, and John Nicholson, Esquires. The former being judge of the Court of Admiralty, and the latter, the comptroller-general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Vol. I. : [One line in Latin from Virgil]
Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, for Edmund Hogan.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCIV [i.e. 1795].
Physical Description
xii, 776 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Dedication signed: Edmund Hogan. Philadelphia, January, 1795.
No more published.
Signatures: piⶠ[A]â´ B-5Eâ´.
Errors in paging: p. viii, 559 misnumbered iii, 549.
"The names of the subscribers."--Page [ix]-xii.
"An account of the impeachment and trial of the late Francis Hopkinson ..."--Page [1]-62, with separate title page.
"An account of the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of John Nicholson ..."--Page [65]-772, with separate title page.
"An alphabetical list of the letters, official documents, witnesses ... published in this volume, from page 5 to page 772, inclusively."--Page [733]-776.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of August, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States of America, the sixteenth. : Published by authority
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States of America, the sixteenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the seventeenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of August, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, for the purpose of reviewing, and if they see occasion, altering and amending, the constitution of this state
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Jun. in Fourth-Street, between Market-Street and Arch-Street,
Date of Publication
1789 [1790]
Physical Description
222 pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 585 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, Henry Miller, 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...Philadelpha: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennshvania...Philadelphia: Zacharia Poulson, 1789 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,..Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1790 - Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present constitution...Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1808.
Journal of the first session of the seventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and of the Commonwealth the twenty first
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the 1st of January to the 31st December, 1796 inclusive, Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Sellers, 1797.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1796. Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Sellers, 1797.
