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A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21751
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Physical Description
2 volumes 33 cm
Notes
Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Subtitle of v. 2 varies.
Vol. 2 printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 696 and 697 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - England - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foley, Robert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Bacon, Matthew,
Pooley, Henry.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
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Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer : to which are added some special cases in the Court of Chancery, and before the delegates ; in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, King George the first, and his present majesty

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20976
Author
Comyns, John,
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 139 1744
Alternate Title
Comyns' reports
Responsibility
by the Right Honourable Sir John Comyns, Knt.
Author
Comyns, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for D. Browne ... and C. Bathurst,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
[14], 757, [31] pages : portrait ; 33 cm
Notes
" ... with two tables, one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters."
In manuscript "With additional references by Samuel Ross of Lincoln's Ins. lfd. London, 1792."
Handwritten marginal notes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck Lewis Gordon.
Book number 139 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label.
Additional Author
Gordon, Lewis,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 139 1744
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The practical register of the Common Pleas, containing select cases or determinations in points of practice of that court, in the reigns of Queen Anne and King George the First, and of His present Majesty King George the Second : with three tables : one of the principal matters, one of the general heads therein contained, and the other of the names of the cases

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21004
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Date of Publication
1743.
Call Number
Book 205 1743
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy : for J. Stagg ... [and 5 others]
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer, Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1743.
Physical Description
[38], 451, [63] pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
"Said to be by Sir George Cooke."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeate's signature at top of title page.
Book number 205 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Cooke, George,
Hall, Elihu.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 205 1743
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Reports of cases in equity, argued and decreed in the courts of Chancery and Exchequer, chiefly in the reign of King George I. [1705-1726] By a late learned judge

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21752
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The 2d ed.,
Date of Publication
1742.
Call Number
Book 698 1742
Responsibility
To which are added some select cases in equity, heard and determined in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. By the same hand. With two alphabetical tables; the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters contained in these Reports.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Edition
The 2d ed.,
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne, J. Shuckburgh,
Date of Publication
1742.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 275, [20] pages 35 cm
Notes
Includes (p. 267-275): The reports of a case heard and adjudged in the King's Bench in Ireland, tempore Georgii I. Dominus Rex versus Dwyer.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatuare at top of title page.
Book number 698 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.
Ireland. Court of Exchequer.
Ireland. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 698 1742
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Select cases argued and adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, before the late lords commissioners of the great seal and the late Lord Chancellor King. From the year 1724 to 1733. With two tables, one of the names of the cases, and the other of the principal matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21759
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1740.
Call Number
Bookk 708 1740
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling for H. Lintot, D. Browne, and J. Shuckburgh,
Date of Publication
1740.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 82, [8] pages 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 708 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
King, Peter King,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 708 1740
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The trial in ejectment between Campbell Craig, lessee of James Annesley, Esq., and others, plaintiffs and the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Anglesey, defendant : before the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland : begun on Friday, November 11th, 1743 and continued by several adjournments to Friday, the 25th of the said month : containing, the evidence at large as delivered by the witnesses, with all the speeches and arguments of the judges and of the counsel

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20905
Author
Craig, Campbell.
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 87 1744
  1 website  
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Mr. John Lodge, and corrected and revised by themselves ; published by the permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Bowes, the Hon. Mr. Baron Mountney [sic], and the Hon. Mr. Baron Dawson.
Author
Craig, Campbell.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for John Smith ... and Abraham Bradley ...,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
377, [3] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
" ... the plaintiff's title is brought to a single question, whether the lessor, Mr. James Annesley be the legitimate issue of Arthur, late Lord Altham ... ": p. 359.
Signatures: [A]² B-L² "M[N]"² O-4R² "[4R]"² 4S-5C².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page
Book number 87 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Craig, Campbell
Anglesey, Richard Annesley, - Earl of, - 1694-1761
Annesley, James, - 1715-1760
Craig, Campbell.
Ejectment - Ireland.
Illegitimacy - Ireland.
Ejectment.
Illegitimacy.
Ireland.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Additional Author
Anglesey, Richard Annesley,
Annesley, James,
Lodge, John,
Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
Ireland. Court of Exchequer.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 87 1744
Websites
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21754
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Call Number
Book 700 1741
Book 701 1741a
Book 702 1750
Responsibility
collected by William Peere Williams ...
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
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."
Title varies slightly.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 700-702 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Williams, William Peere,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 700 1741
Book 701 1741a
Book 702 1750
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Reports and cases of practice in the Court of Common Pleas : in the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I. and King George II. [1706-1747]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22118
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Edition
The 2nd ed., with additional references, &c.
Date of Publication
1747.
Call Number
Book 848a 1747
Responsibility
by a late eminent hand ; with two tables ; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Edition
The 2nd ed., with additional references, &c.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot, (Assignee of Edward Sayer ...) for J. Stephens ..., J. Worrall ..., T. Waller ..., and W. Sandby ...,
Date of Publication
1747.
Physical Description
[12], 160 [i.e. 286], [34] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Paging irregular, following the starred paging of earlier edition inset in the margin of the text.
By Sir George Cooke.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁴ B-X⁸.
Includes index.
Publisher's ads [2] p. at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and above that of struck Thomas Jones on back of front cover.
Book numb 848a as assigned by Yeates.
Maxwell, L.F. & W.H. Maxwell Legal Bibl. of Brit Comm.,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title label (Binding)
Additional Author
Cooke, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 848a 1747
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21768
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1748.
Call Number
Book 719 1748
Responsibility
By the Right Honourable John Lord Fortescue.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
1748.
Physical Description
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.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Fortescue-Aland, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 719 1748
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, from the third year of King James the Second, to the twelfth year of King William the Third

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21001
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
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.
Date of Publication
MDCCXLI. [1741]
Call Number
Book 201 1741
Responsibility
by Thomas Carthew, late Serjeant at Law. ; Published by his son Thomas Cathew, of the Inner Temple Esq.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
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.,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLI. [1741]
Physical Description
[22], 520, [24] pages ; 36 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [pi][sup]2 a-e[sup]2 ( -e2) B-Z[sup]4 Aa-Zz[sup]4 Aaa-Uuu[sup]4 Xxx-Zzz[sup]2 Aaaa-Cccc[sup]2.
Title within double-lined border.
With an initial imprimatur leaf.- Black letter.
Printed marginalia.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 201 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC, T97361
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt tile on maroon title label (Binding)
Additional Author
Browne, Daniel,
Worrall, John,
Carthew, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 201 1741
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Reports of cases determined in the High Court of Chancery : from April 25. 1740. to May 9. 1741 ; with two tables ; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21758
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1742.
Call Number
Book 707 1742
Responsibility
by Thomas Barnardiston, Serjeant at Law.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
In the Savoy : And sold by W. Chinnery, in the Inner Temple Lane
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq) ;
Date of Publication
1742.
Physical Description
502, [46] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbr 707 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Barnardiston, Thomas,
Lintot, Henry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 707 1742
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20979
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 143 1744
Book 142 1744
Responsibility
by Thomas Barnardiston.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot (assignee of E. Sayer) and sold by W. Chinnery,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Includes index.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under struck Edward Liddle.
Book numbers 142 and 143 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Booksellers' advertisements - England - London - 18th century.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title page.
Additional Author
Barnardiston, Thomas,
Yeates, Jaasper,
Liddle, Edward,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 143 1744
Book 142 1744
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Cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench. From the second year of King William III. To the end of his reign [1690-1701]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20966
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1741.
Call Number
Yeates Book 134 1741
Responsibility
With two tables: one, of the names of the cases; the other, of the principal matters. By a late barrister of the Middle-Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne,
Date of Publication
1741.
Physical Description
iv, [10], 690, [77] pages 31 cm
Notes
Issued later as v. 12 of Modern reports, and usually so cited.
Lettered: Cases time of Will: 3. .12.
"Books printed for H. Lintot": [1] p. at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 134 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 134 1741
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, during the time of the late Lord Chancellor King. [1726-1730]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21742
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
1744.
Responsibility
Collected by William Mosely. Published with notes, and many thousand references, and two tables; one, of the names of the cases; the other, of the principal matters.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by O. Nelson, for the administratrix of the author,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
3 preliminary leaves, 441, [1] pages 33 cm
Notes
Sometimes cited as "Cases temp. King". cf. Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under signature of Geo Stevenson, 1749.
Book number 678 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
One-half leather on blue boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mosely, William,
King, Peter King,
Yeates, Jasper,
Stevenson, Geroge.
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
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Collection
George Steinman Papers
Title
George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2
Object ID
MG0184
Date Range
1738-1955
  2 documents  
Collection
George Steinman Papers
Title
George Steinman Papers, Series 1 and 2
Description
The George Steinman Papers, Series 1 contains an album, compiled by George Steinman, with many photographs of buildings, tombstones, monuments and scenes of Lancaster city and county. Ephemera and newspaper articles are among the photographs. Represented in the album are Postlethwaite's Tavern, hotels and taverns, fire houses, the Conestoga massacre, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, Stehli Silk Mill, and schools. The four boxes contain orginal correspondence, documents, photographs and ephemera or and pertaining to the same subject matter as the album.
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.
System of Arrangement
This collection is divided into two series:
Series 1 The Steinman Album
Series 2 Documents, Photographs, Ephemera
Date Range
1738-1955
Year Range From
1738
Year Range To
1955
Date of Accumulation
ca. 1860-1920
Creator
Steinman, George Michael, 1847-1920
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Altee, John
André, John
Appel, T. Roberts
Armstrong, Elizabeth
Atlee, Samuel John
Atlee, Washington Lemuel
Atlee, William Augustus
Atlee, William Pitt
Baer, John
Baily, Francis
Bair, Daniel
Baker, James G.
Baldwin, Edith L.
Barr, Elias
Barton, Thomas
Bausman, Elizabeth
Bausman, William
Bear, Henry
Beck, Herbert Huebener
Beck, Martin
Beecher, William C.
Beissel, Conrad
Beissel, John Conrad
Bender, Henry
Bethel, Samuel
Bezellon, Martha Coombe
Bezellon, Peter
Boehm, Henry
Boyle, Philip
Breneman, Benjamin Franklin
Breneman, Gideon
Breneman, Franklin Henry
Broll, John
Brown, J. H.
Bryan, George
Buchanan, James
Buchmiller, Dulon Frank
Burkhart, Anna Margarita
Burkhart, George
Burrowes, Francis Smith
Burrowes, Thomas Henry
Burt, Nathaniel
Calder, George, Jr.
Cameron, James
Carpenter, John
Carpenter, William
Cheves, Langdon
Clay, Henry
Clemson, James
Coleman, Elizabeth
Coleman, Robert
Coleman, William
Cope, Caleb
Cope, Thomas P.
Cox, John
Crawford, James
Crowel, Mary R.
Damant, James
Davis, Benjamin Franklin
Dering, Henry
Detwiler, Thomas Craig
Diffenbaugh, Henry
Diffenderfer, Milton Hess
Diffenderffer, Frank Reid
Diller, Graybill
Donnley, Felix
Downing, Samuel
Dufresne, Samuel
Duvel, P. S.
Eberly, Michael
Edge, Walter Warren
Eichholtz, Jacob
Ellicott, Andrew
Elliot, Robert
Ellmaker, Nathaniel
Eshleman, Frank
Fahnestock, Samuel
Ferree, Philip
Fordney, Melchoir
Forney, J. A.
Fox, Cyrus
Frailey, Jacob
Franklin, George F.
Franklin, Walter
Fraser, Susan
Frazer, Reah
Fulton, Robert
Funck, John
Funk, John
Galbreath, John
Geist, M. W.
Germon, W. L.
Gill, William
Gingrich, Amos
Graff, Andreas
Grant, Hamilton
Graybill, Jacob
Groff, John M.
Groff, Sebastian
Grosh, John
Grove, Annie C.
Grubb, Daisy
Grubb, Peter
Hager, Walter C.
Haldeman, Samuel Steman
Hall, Charles
Hamilton, Andrew
Hamilton, James
Hammond, Frederick W.
Hamond, E. R.
Hand, Edward
Hand, John
Hand, Mollie
Harpel, Charlotte
Hayes, Alexander Laws
Hazen, Moses
Heinitsh, August
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter
Heister, Joseph
Henderson, Barton
Henderson, Thomas G.
Henry, John Joseph
Hensel, George Washington, Jr.
Hensel, William Uhler
Herr, Christian
Herr, Hans
Herr, Rudy
Hews, George H.
Hoffnagle, Peter
Hood, Alexander H.
Hostetter, Albert Keller
Hughes, Edward
Hutter, Christian
Jacobs, Cyrus
Jenkins, David
Jenkins, William
Kevinski, John B.
King, George H.
Kirkpatrick, William
Konigmacher, Joseph
Kroome, Hiram
Krug, George
Kuhn, Simon
Kuhn, Simon Adam
Landis, David Bachman
Landis, David H.
Landis, Harry
Landis, Jacob
Light, John B.
Lightner, Michael
Lincoln, Abraham
Lippold, John W.
Loeb, Jacob
Long, Henry Grimler
Long, Isaac
Lowery, Alexander
Lowery, Lazarus
Ludlow, Robert Fulton
Magee, David Francis
Marshall, Christopher
Marshall, John
Martin, C. H.
Mason, S.
Mathiot, John
Matlack, Timothy
Mayer, Christian B.
McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
McClain, Francis Bernard
McClellan, George Brinton
McCormick, D. R.
McFarquahr, Colin
McGrann, Bernard John
Melsheimmer, Frederick Valentine
Metzger, Samuel H.
Mifflin, Thomas
Miller, Dave "Devil"
Miller, John
Miller, Susanna
Mishler, Benjamin
Montgomery, John R.
Montgomery, William
Morton, William Augustus
Mulhatten, Barney
Musser, Yost
Myers, Albert
Mylin, Martin
Neff, John
Nevin, John D.
North, Hugh McAlister
Old, James
Parks, Jake
Pastor, John
Peiper, William L.
Penn, William
Pitt, William
Porter, Andrew
Porter, George B.
Pyle, Howard
Ramsey, David
Raub, Galen John Peoples
Reigart, Adam
Reigart, Emanuel C.
Reilly, Mary Gertrude Costigan
Reinmansnyder, Helen
Reynolds, George Nelson
Reynolds, John Fulton
Reynolds, William
Rogers, Milton C.
Rose, Frederick
Ross, George
Ross, Patton
Sauber, Charles Alvin
Sener, Samuel Miller
Seyfert, Augustus G.
Shober, Emanuel
Shreiner, Philip
Slaymaker, Henry
Slaymaker, Henry Edwin
Slaymaker, L.
Slaymaker, William
Sloane, S.
Slough, Elizabeth
Smith, Charles
Snavely, Harry H.
Stahr, John Summers
Stambauch, Samuel
Stauffer, David McNeely
Stedman, Alexander
Steinman, George Michael
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stiegel, Henry William
Strong Wolf, Chief
Summy, Levi
Sutter, John Augustus
Tener, John C.
Thornburg, Robert
Todd, Charles
Tomlinson, George
Urban, John
Vogan, John
Washington, George
Webb, James
West, Benjamin
Wharton, Thomas
Whiteside, John
Wiley, William
Williamson, Henry Stackhouse
Willson, George Bolivar
Willson, John
Winover, Peter
Wise, Charles
Wise, John
Witmer, Abraham
Witmer, David
Witmer, Esther Elizabeth
Worner, William Frederic
Wright, James
Wright, John
Yeates, Catharine
Yeates, Jasper
Zahm, Godfried
Zahm, Mathias
Zahm, Samuel H.
Zantzinger, Paul
Zehmer, Anthony
Zinzendorf, Nicholaus
Subjects
Ephemera
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Search Terms
Abbeville (Historic estate)
Abbeville Mill
Advent Lutheran Church
Albright's Transportation Depot
All Saints Episcopal Church
American Hose Company
Balloons
Bangor Episcopal Church
Berks County Historical Society
Binkley's Bridge
Bird-In-Hand Friends Meetinghouse
Boehm's Chapel
Buch Tavern
Buchanan Park
Caledonia Furnace
Carpenter's Union Church
Cat Tavern
Cemeteries
Central Cigar Store
Chalices
Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church
Christ Lutheran Church
Christian Herr House
Christiana Resistance
Churches
Clare Point Stock Farm
Columbia - Wrightsville Bridge
Columbia Friends Meetinghouse
Conestoga Furnace
Conestoga Glue Factory
Conestoga Navigation Company
Conestoga wagon
Cosgrove's Tavern
County House
Courthouses
Covered bridges
Disasters
Donegal Presbyterian Church
Downing's Mill
Eagle Hotel
Eden Iron Works
Edge Tool Forge
Elizabeth Furnace
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
Ephemera
Ephrata Cloister
Ephrata Mountain Springs Hotel
Exchange Hotel
Feagleyville
Federal Hall
Finding aids
Fire departments
Fires
First National Store
First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster
First Reformed Church, Lancaster
Fites Eddy Hotel
Fountain Inn
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin College
Franklin House
Fulton Cotton Mill
General Sutter Inn
Golden Swan Hotel
Grace Lutheran Church
Graeff's Landing
Grape Tavern
Gravestones
Graveyards
Green Cottage
Grubb Mansion
Halfway House
Hans Herr House
Hardwicke
Harmony Hall
Heinitsh Drug Store
Historical markers
Hope Episcopal Church
Hopewell Forge
Hotels
Humane Fire Company
Humes Woolen Mill
Hutter's Folly
Indian Queen Tavern
Indigenous peoples
J. B. Distillery
Keener's Mill
Kepler Lodge
Krug House
Lafayette Hill
Lamb Tavern
Lamparter's Row
Lancaster Academy
Lancaster County Courthouse
Lancaster County Historical Society
Lancaster County National Bank
Lancaster County Prison
Lancaster Curling Club
Lancaster Fencibles
Lancaster Moravian Church
Landisville Mennonite Meetinghouse
Leacock Presbyterian Church
Linden Hall
Lititz Moravian Church
Manuscript groups
Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company
Markets
Martic Forge, Martic Twp.
Martin Meylin's Gunshop
Masonic halls
Masonic lodges
Massasoit Hall
Mechanics Library
Mellinger Mennonite Church
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church
Millersville Academy
Millersville State Normal School
Millersville University
Mills
Mischler's Exchange
Mishler's Beer Garden
Montgomery House
Monuments
Moss Cigar Factory
Mount Bethel Mansion
Mount Hope Furnace
Native Americans
Odd Fellows Hall
Old City Hall
Old Welsh Graveyard
Paper mills
Parish houses
Paxton Boys
Penn Square
Pennsbury Manor
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pequea Presbyterian Church
Petroglyphs
Photographs
Plough Tavern
Poole Forge
Postlethwaite's Tavern
Powder houses
Practical Farmer Hotel
Ranck's Mill
Reigart's Landing
Reigart's Old Wine Store
Relay Hotel
Revolutionary War
Rock Ford
Ruth's Fine Groceries
Sadsbury Friends Meetinghouse
Safe Harbor Rolling Mill
Schools
Scrapbooks
Shiffler Fire Company
Ship Tavern
Shippen School
Sign of the Bull Tavern
Sign of the Hat Tavern
Sorrel Horse Hotel
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church
St. James Episcopal Church
St. John's Episcopal Church
St. John's Lutheran Church
St. John's United Church of Christ
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Michael's Lutheran Church
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Stamps
Stehli Silk Mill
Stock certificates
Strasburg Academy
Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery
Strasburg Methodist Episcopal Church
Sunflower Inn
Swamp Church
Swan Hotel
Tavern signs
Taverns
Ten Hour House
Three Crowns Tavern
Trinity Lutheran Church
Union Bethel Church
Union Fire Company
Union Hotel
Valley Forge, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Vermont Historical Society
Voganville Hotel
Wabank House
Washington Hotel
Washington Memorial Chapel
Waterloo Tavern
Waterworks
Watt and Shand
Weaverland Mennonite Church
Wheatland
White Horse Hotel
White Swan Hotel
William Pitt Tavern
Windsor Forge
Witmer's Bridge
Witness Tree
Woodward Hill Cemetery
F. W. Woolworth Co.
York Furnace
Young Men's Christian Association
Zion Lutheran Church
Extent
1 scrapbook, 4 boxes, 112 folders, 3.5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0184
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Copies
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
"Mr. Geo. Steinman who started this collection of pictures. This book was presented to the Lanc. Co. Historical Society after his death by Mr. Geo. S. Franklin."
John M. Gibson is recorded as the donor, 1968, in LancasterHistory's accession records.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-184
Classification
MG0184
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Series 1 processed and finding aid prepared PK and MSH, 2008. Series 2 finding aid prepared by JE, 2018. Added to database 20 July 2021.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # C980002119, 2021-2024.
Documents
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The law of inheritances in fee, laid down in a new method : with a kalendar of the persons inheritable, curiously engraved: to which is added, a supplement, containing a review of the said discourse

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22159
Author
Robinson, Robert,
Edition
The second edition.
Date of Publication
[1740?]
Call Number
Book 1032 1740?
Responsibility
by a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Author
Robinson, Robert,
Edition
The second edition.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for and sold by Ward and Chandler at the Ship without Temple-Bar, and at their shops in Coney-street, York, and at Scarborough Spaw,
Date of Publication
[1740?]
Physical Description
[2], xiv, 104, 24 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Publication date suggested by ESTC.
"A catalogue of books printed for, and sold by Caesar Ward and Richard Chandler, booksellers at the Ship just without Temple-Bar, London, at at their shops in Coney-street, York, and the Corner of the Long-Room-street, at Scarborough-Spaw ..." 24 pages, final sequenece. With special title page.
Folded engraved plate signed: G. Child, Sculp.
Signatures: A-F⁸( -F6-F8) ²A⁴( -A1) ²B-²D⁴ ³A-C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and on front fly learf under that of struck former owner.
Book number 1032 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Inheritance and succession - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Inheritance and succession.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Early works.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Child, G.,
Additional Corporate Author
Caesar Ward and Richard Chandler (London, England),
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1032 1740?
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Reports of cases in law and equity: from 1670 to 1706

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20977
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Date of Publication
1742.
Call Number
Book 140 1742
Responsibility
With tables of the names of the cases and the principal matters. By the Honourable Richard Freeman ... Revised and published by Thomas Dixon.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot (assignee of E. Sayer)
Date of Publication
1742.
Physical Description
2 volumes 31 cm
Notes
"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.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label.
Additional Author
Freeman, Richard,
Dixon, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 140 1742
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The clergy-man's law, or, The complete incumbent : collected from the thirty-nine articles, canons, decrees in Chancery and Exchequer, as also from all the statutes and common-law cases relating to the church and clergy of England : digested under proper heads for the benefit of patrons of churches and the parochial clergy : and will be useful to all students and practitioners of the law

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21761
Author
Watson, William,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Call Number
Book 711 1747
Alternate Title
Clergyman's law, or, The complete incumbent
Clergy-man's law
Complete incumbent
Responsibility
by William Watson ... ; with a table of the contents of the chapters and another of the principal matters ; to which are added the names of the present bishops and other chief dignitaries of the Church of England.
Author
Watson, William,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot (assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for D. Midwinter, W. Innys, T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, Messrs. Longman and Shewell, J. Shuckburgh, T. Osborne, J. Worrall, C. Hitch, C. Corbett, C. Bathurst, G. Hawkins, T. Waller, A. Nutt,
Date of Publication
MDCCXLVII [1747]
Physical Description
iv, [8], 656, [64] p. ; 36 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-b² B-8U² (8U2 blank).
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 711 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Subjects
Church of England - Clergy - Early works to 1800.
Church of England - Government - Early works to 1800.
Church of England.
Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Clergy.
Ecclesiastical law.
Political science.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 711 1747
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Presbyterian Records Donegal: [Minutes of Donegal Presbytery1732-1750, 1759-1765, 1766- 1786]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18782
Corporate Author
Synod of New York and Philadelphia (1758-1788). Presbytery of Donegal.
Date of Publication
1732-1786.
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 1: #837
Corporate Author
Synod of New York and Philadelphia (1758-1788). Presbytery of Donegal.
Date of Publication
1732-1786.
Physical Description
4 v. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Organized 1732 by the Synod [of Philadelphia]; divided and dissolved 1765; continued in part by Presbytery of Carlisle. Reconstituted as Donegal in 1766 by the Synod of New York and Philadelphia; dissolved 1786.
Affiliation: 1732-1745, the Synod; 1745-1758, Synod of Philadelphia; 1758-1786, Synod of New York and Philadelphia.
Vol. 3 includes minutes of Carlisle Presbytery, May 23, 1765-Apr. 25, 1766.
Labeled as #837.
Microfilm. Philadelphia : Presbyterian Historical Society, 1966. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Subjects
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Presbytery of Donegal - History.
Presbyterian Church - Records and correspondence
Donegal (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
History.
Additional Corporate Author
Synod of Philadelphia (1717-1757). Presbytery of Donegal.
Synod of New York and Philadelphia (1758-1788). Presbytery of Carlisle.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 1: #837
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