topic:"Contracts" found 117 records - Research Collections

A treatise on obligations, considered in a moral and legal view

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Author: Pothier, Robert Joseph,

Date of Publication: 1802.

Call Number: Book 669 1802

Responsibility: Tr. from the French of Pothier.

Author: Pothier, Robert Joseph,

Place of Publication: Newburn, N.C

Publisher: Martin & Ogden,

Date of Publication: 1802.

Physical Description: 2 volumes in 1 21 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library;; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 669 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Contracts.; Civil law - France.; Civil law.; France.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 669 1802

Indenture

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Collection: Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents

Title: Apprenticeship indenture for Peter Stewart

Object ID: MG0721_F002_It02

Date Range: 1784/11/13

and Content Note: The Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents include legal contracts between apprentice, or the parent or guardians, and master; as well as one contract between an indentured servant and master. The contracts identify the parties involved, municipalities, trade to be learned, and terms

2 documents

Collection: Apprenticeship and Indenture Documents

Title: Apprenticeship indenture for Peter Stewart

Description: Peter Stewart, a person of color, of the age sixteen months is indentured until he is 21 years of age as an apprentice to Abraham Johnson by Peter Stewart's mother Mary Parsons.

Date Range: 1784/11/13

Creation Date: 13 November 1784

Creator: Henry, William

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 15

People: Cooper, Robert; Henry, William; Johnson, Abraham; Marshall, Joshua; Parsons, Mary; Stewart, Peter

Other Creators: Parsons, Mary; Johnson, Abraham

Subjects: Apprentices; Contract labor; Contracts; Indentured servants

Search Terms: Apprentices; Contract labor; Contracts; Indentured apprentices; Indentures; Persons of color

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Indenture

Language: English

Object ID: MG0721_F002_It02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Other Numbers: MG-721

Other Number: MG-721, Folder 2, Item 2

Classification: MG0721

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Transferred from Document Collection, June 2014. Cataloged by PH, July 2014. Added to database 5 January 2022.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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Indenture

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Indenture of Fanny

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F009_It01

Date Range: 1811, 1813

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Indenture of Fanny

Description: Indenture of Fanny, a formerly enslaved woman held by Jeremiah Heaton in Harford County, Maryland. She became an indentured servant in exchange for her manumission on the advice of her guardian, Thomas Harrison. 14 September 1811. Transfer of indenture to John Ewing in Allentown, Pennsylvania. 30 September 1813.

Date Range: 1811, 1813

Creation Date: 1811 and 1813

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ewing, John; Fanny; Harrison, Thomas; Heaton, Jeremiah

Subjects: African Americans--History; Contracts; Indentured servants; Slaveholders; Slavery

Search Terms: Allentown, Pennsylvania; Contracts; Enslaved persons; Harford County, Maryland; Indentured servants; Indentures; Persons of color; Slaveholders; Slavery

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Indenture

Language: English

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F009_It01

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136

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Other Numbers: MG-240, Series 2

Other Number: MG-240, Series 2, Folder 9, Item 1

Classification: MG0240

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Transferred from Document Collection, Case 1 and cataloged June 2007. Added to database on 26 January 2022.; The items in Folder 9 are all attached at the corner with sealing wax.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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Collection: Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records

Title: Petition, charter, contract

Object ID: MG0534_F002

Date Range: 1887-1935

, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Subject Headings: Business records Charters Contracts Farmers' markets Minutes (Records) Search Terms: Business records Charters Contacts Farmers' markets Farmers’ Southern Market House Farmers’ Southern Market House Company Finding aids

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Collection: Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records

Title: Petition, charter, contract

Description: Loose papers from the Farmers' Southern Market House Company minute book.; Insert 1 Petition and issue of letters patent for incorporation of Farmers' Southern Market House Company. 1887.; Insert 2 Charter for Farmers' Southern Market House Company. 1887.; Insert 3 Legal document from Farmers' Southern Market House Company presenting the City of Lancaster with the option to purchase the market house. 1926.; Insert 4 Contract between Farmers' Southern Market House Company and the City of Lancaster for the city to lease the market house. 1926.

Date Range: 1887-1935

Creation Date: 1887-1935

Year Range From: 1887

Year Range To: 1935

Creator: Farmers' Southern Market House Company (Lancaster, Pa.)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 11

Subjects: Business records; Charters; Contracts; Farmers' markets; Petitions

Search Terms: Business records; Charters; Contracts; Farmers' markets; Farmers' Southern Market House; Farmers' Southern Market House Company; Minutes; Petitions

Extent: 4 items

Object Name: Documents

Language: English

Object ID: MG0534_F002

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Farmers' Southern Market House Company Records (MG0534), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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. There is no fee for publication.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-534

Other Number: MG-534, Folder 2

Classification: MG0534

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: These items was transferred from MG0266, Daybook and Ledger Collection, Series 5 Municipal Records on 18 March 2009. Added to database 12 March 2022.

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Indenture

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Collection: William B. Arnold Collection

Title: Indenture for Elizabeth Smith to be apprenticed to Anna Withers

Object ID: MG0114_F011

Date Range: 1814/06/06

L. Muller, Hiram K. Pinchot, Gifford Shaub, Christian Shaub, Henry Shaub, Martin Smith, Elizabeth Smith, John Withers, Anna Withers, George Subject Headings: Account books Apprentices Broadsides Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Contracts Deeds Search Terms: Apprentices Broadsides Clippings (Books

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Collection: William B. Arnold Collection

Title: Indenture for Elizabeth Smith to be apprenticed to Anna Withers

Description: Indenture of John Smith, a person of color, to place his four-year old daughter, Elizabeth, as an apprentice to Anna Withers in Strasburg Township. Official manuscript copy of the original indenture.

Date Range: 1814/06/06

Creation Date: 6 June 1814

Creator: Carpenter, Martin

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Carpenter, Martin; Smith, Elizabeth; Smith, John; Withers, Anna

Subjects: Apprentices; Contracts

Search Terms: Apprentices; Contracts; Indentured apprentices; Indentures; Persons of color

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Indenture

Language: English

Object ID: MG0114_F011

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Other Numbers: MG-114

Other Number: MG-114, Folder 11

Classification: MG0114

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 24 March 2022.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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Letter

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: Letter from James Buchanan to David Lawson

Object ID: JBFP 1.1.1.173

Date Range: 1865/04/29

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan

Title: Letter from James Buchanan to David Lawson

Description: Copy of letter from James Buchanan to David Lawson, Esq. acknowledging receipt of several letters concerning a contract on “the Lucinda property” in Clarion and questioning Mr. Lawson increasing his commission from 5 percent to 7 ½ percent unless Mr. Reynolds had approved it. Wheatland.

Date Range: 1865/04/29

Creator: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 1, Box 2

People: Buchanan, James; Lawson, David; Reynolds, Samuel H.

Subjects: Letters; Contracts

Search Terms: Letters; Correspondence; Contracts; Financial matters; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 6.5 x 8 in.

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 1 Series 1

Object ID: JBFP 1.1.1.173

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

Notes: May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1996.170

Other Number: JBFP Part 1, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 173

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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A treatise of the law relative to contracts and agreements not under seal. With cases and decisions thereon in the action of assumpsit. In four parts

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Author: Comyn, Samuel.

Date of Publication: 1809.

Call Number: Book 905 1809; Book 906 1809

Responsibility: By Samuel Comyn.

Author: Comyn, Samuel.

Place of Publication: Flatbush. (N.Y.)

Publisher: Printed and published by Isaac Riley,

Date of Publication: 1809.

Physical Description: 2 volumes 25 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 905 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Contracts - Great Britain.; Contracts.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindinh)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 905 1809; Book 906 1809

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A treatise on obligations, considered in a moral and legal view

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Archive

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A treatise of the law relative to contracts and agreements not under seal. With cases and decisions thereon in the action of assumpsit. In four parts

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