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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Object ID: MG0205

Date Range: 1699-1934

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

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: 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.

Date Range: 1699-1934

Year Range From: 1699

Year Range To: 1934

Date of Accumulation: 1699-1934

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Atkinson, Matthew; Bausman, William; Bond, Phineas; Bowman, Valentine; Bradford, W.; Brien, Edward; Burd, Edward; Carson, John; Coates, Samuel; Conyngham, David; Conyngham, Elizabeth Yeates; Conyngham, Redmond; Dallas, George M.; Davis, Jonathan; Davison, Benjamin; Dickey, Robert; Duncannon, Thomas; Edward, Thomas; Erter, Henry; Ewing, John; Ferguson, John; Fohren, Michael; Gibson, John; Gillchrist, John; Godcharles, Frederic A.; Graff, Conrad; Gregg, Andrew; Grubb, Peter; Hamilton, Charles; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, John; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hand, Jasper; Hayes, A. L.; Henry, John; Hess, David; Jago, John; Javin, William; Keeportz, Daniel; Kittera, William; Kremer, Philip; Krug, Jacob; Kurtz, William; Lindsay, William; Loudersmith, Wendel; Lyon, Joseph Barnet; Magaw, David; Marshall, J.; McClellan, John; McKean, Thomas; Millar, John; Miller, Michael; Minich, Henry; Muhlenberg, William Augustus; Nesbitt, John; Nissley, Martin; Ord, John; Philips, David; Postlethwaite, John; Poultney, Thomas; Price, Eli K.; Probst, John; Ramsey, Robert; Rawle, William; Riegart, Adam; Rine, Widow; Ross, George; Ross, J.; Scott, James; Sergeant, Thomas; Shippen, Edward; Shippen, Evans Wallis; Shippen, Robert; Simpson, John; Smith, Charles; Smith, Mary Yeates; Stein, Charles; Steinman, Fredrick; Stevenson, Henry; Stewart, Charles; Sturmii, Johannis Christophorus; Thomas, John; Tilghman, Benjamin C.; Tilghman, E.; Tilghman, Edward; Tilghman, William; Tilghman, William B.; Towson, William; Underwood, John; Wallace, George; Wallace, William; Waln, Nicholas; Warden, J.; White, William; Wickersham, Elijah; Willson, Samuel; Yeates, Catharine; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, Jasper, Jr.; Yeates, John, Jr.; Yeates, John, Sr.; Yeates, Margaret; Yeates, Sarah Burd "Sally"; Zantzinger, Paul

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Family records; Law libraries; Letters; Library catalogs; Wills

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Family records; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Wills

Extent: 6 boxes, 49 folders, 13 books, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0205

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Yeates, Aungst Collection (MG0206); Yeates, Carson Collection (MG0207); George M. Steinman Collection (MG0184); Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library; Objects in the Curatorial Collection

Notes: 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.

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Cases argued and adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, [1680-1719]

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Date of Publication: 1726-1729.

Call Number: Book 704 1726; Book 705 1729

Responsibility: published from the manuscripts of Thomas Vernon ... by order of the High Court of Chancery.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Chancery.

Place of Publication: [London] in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for J. Tonson,

Date of Publication: 1726-1729.

Physical Description: 2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 33 cm

Notes: Preface signed: Wm-Peere Williams. Wm. Melmoth.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 704 and 705 as assigned by Yeates.

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 (Binding)

Additional Author: Vernon, Thomas,; Williams, William Peere,; Melmoth, William,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 704 1726; Book 705 1729

A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant : and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post, with ample and copious instructions on how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same, in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Date of Publication: 1725.

Call Number: Book 885 1725

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Place of Publication: [London], in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer) for D. Browne,

Date of Publication: 1725.

Physical Description: [v], 335, [28], 30 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Notes: English and Latin.; Earlier edition (London, 1678) has title: A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; "The epistle dedicatory" signed: William Brown.; Signatures: A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, a-b4.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 885 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Fines and recoveries - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Fines and recoveries.; Forms (Law); Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 885 1725

The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. publish'd in his life-time : together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England, first publish'd by the present Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1695 : together with the life of the author

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Author: Spelman, Henry,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [i.e. 1723]

Call Number: Book 85 1723

Alternate Title: Reliquiae Spelmannianae

Responsibility: now revised by His Lordship ; to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, one, of the admiral-jurisdiction and the officers thereof, the other of antient deeds and charters ; with a compleat index to the whole.

Author: Spelman, Henry,

Uniform Title: Works.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for D. Browne, Sen. & Jun., W. Mears, F. Clay ... and Fletcher Gyles ...,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII [i.e. 1723]

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : ill., 2 geneal. tables, 1 port. (engraving) ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Vol. 1: [28], xxvj, 39, l-lxv, [1], 67-194, [168] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: [16], 256, [24] p., [1] folded leaf of plates.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeate's signature at top of title page.; Book number 85 as assigned by Yeates.; Ex libris previous owner's name struck out and J. Yeates written in, price 1lb, 7sh, 8pe, 1722.34191000148434; ESTC

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Admiralty - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Deeds - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; England - Antiquities.; Great Britain - Gazetteers - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Gibson, Edmund,; Yeates, Jasper,; Spelman, Henry,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 85 1723

The fifth and last part of Modern reports : being a continuationof several special cases in the court of of King's Bench at Westminster, in the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th years of the reign of the late King William ; and judgments thereupo : together with special pleadings to most of the said cases : none of them ever printed before

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Edition: 2nd ed., carefully rev., with the addition of some thousands of notes.

Date of Publication: 1720.

Call Number: Book 129 1720

Responsibility: collected by the same hand as the former parts.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Edition: 2nd ed., carefully rev., with the addition of some thousands of notes.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer) ... for Tho. Bever,

Date of Publication: 1720.

Physical Description: 464 pages ; 33 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 129 as assigned by Yeates.; Information struck on title page.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 129 1720

A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads

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Author: D'Anvers, Knightley,

Edition: The second edition, corrected.

Date of Publication: 1725.

Call Number: Book 773 1725; Book 774 1725; Book 117 1737

Responsibility: by Knightley d'Anvers, of the Inner Temple, Esq.

Author: D'Anvers, Knightley,

Edition: The second edition, corrected.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer Esq); for J. Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters,

Date of Publication: 1725.

Physical Description: 3 volumes ; 31 cm

Notes: Title page of vol. 2 is dated 1722, title page of vol. 3 is dated 1737.; Unpaginated.; Vol. 1: Actions - Common. Vol. 2: Condition - Error. Vol. 3: Escape - Extinguishment.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 773-775 as assigned by Yeates.; Reference (vol. 3): ESTC; Reference (vols. 1-2): ESTC

Subjects: Common law - England - Early works to 1800.; Law - Early works to 1800.; Law - England - Digests - Early works to 1800.; Law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Common law.; Law.; England.; Great Britain.; Dictionaries.; Digests.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingh)

Additional Author: Gosling, Robert,; Yeates, Jasper; Nutt, Elizabeth,; Nutt, Richard,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 773 1725; Book 774 1725; Book 117 1737

The infants lawyer : or, The law (ancient and modern) relating to infants. Setting forth their priviledges ; their several ages for divers purposes ; guardians and procheim amy, as to suits and defences by them ; actions brought by and against them, with the manner of declarations and pleadings ; fines and recoveries, and other matters of record suffered or acknowledged by them, how reversable ; conveyances and specialties, how bound by them or not ; contracts, promises, &c

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Edition: 3rd ed. :

Date of Publication: 1726.

Call Number: Book 883 1726

Alternate Title: Law (ancient and modern) relating to infants

Responsibility: With an appendix of the forms of declarations and pleadings concerning infants.

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns Edw. Sayer, for James Crokatt,

Date of Publication: 1726.

Physical Description: [24], 380, [28] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 883 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Children - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Children; Forms (Law); Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bingind)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 883 1726

Joannis Seldeni juris consulti Opera omnia, tam edita quam inedita : in tribus voluminibus

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Author: Selden, John,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVI. [1726]

Call Number: Book 720 1726; Book 721 1726; Book 722 1726; Book 723 1726; Book 725 1726; Book 724 1726

Alternate Title: Opera omnia, tam edita quam inedita; Works of John Selden

Responsibility: collegit ac recensuit, vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit, David Wilkins ...

Author: Selden, John,

Uniform Title: Works.

Place of Publication: Londini

Publisher: Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot, J. Tonson, R. Gosling, W. & J. Innys, J. Osborn & T. Longman, R. Robinson, T. Woodward, F. Clay, B. Motte, A. Ward, T. Wotton, & executorum Richardi Sare,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVI. [1726]

Physical Description: 3 v. in 6 pts. : ill., port. ; 40 cm (fol.)

Notes: Each vol. in 2 pts.; Vol. 2 imprint statement begins: Londini : Typis S. Palmer, impensis J. Walthoe ...; Vol. 3 imprint statement begins: London : Printed by T. Wood for J. Walthoe ...; Tail-pieces.; Part of vol. 1 printed in red and black.; Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 720 as assigned by Yeates.; Book plate of Bowater Vernon of Hanbury Hall in the Counder of Worester. on back of title pages of vol. 1.; ESTC,

Contents: Vol. 1. De anno civili veteris ecclesiae, seu Reipublicae Judaicae, dissertatio. De jure naturali & gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum. De synedriis & praefecturis juridicis veterum ebraeorum -- v. 2. De successionibus in bona defunctorum & de successionibus in pontificatum Ebraeorum. De diis Syris. Eutychii ecclesiae suae origines. Uxor Ebraica. Analecta Anglo-Britannica. Janus Anglorum. Dissertatio ad Fletam. Judicium de decem scriptoribus Anglicanis. Mare clausum. Vindiciae de scriptione maris clausi. Marmora Arundelliana. Notae in eadmerum. Epistolae & poemata -- v. 3. England's Epinomis. Original of duels. Titles of honour. History of tythes, with the answers to Sempill, Tilseley, and a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. Of the passage touching the number 666. Of Calvin's judgment on the Revelations. Of the birth-day of our Savior. Of his purpose and end in writing the History of tythes. Of the Jews sometimes living in England. Discourse of the office of Lord Chancellor. Privilege of the baronage of England. Judicature in Parliament. Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments. Letter to Mr. August. Vincent, rouge-croix, concerning his discovery of errors. Arguments concerning the baronies of Grey and Ruthen. Notes upon Drayton's Polyolbion, Fortescue de laudibus, etc. and Hengham's summa, &c. Speeches in the House of Lords and Commons. Table talk.

Subjects: Law - England - Early works to 1800.; Mishpat Ivri - Early works to 1800.; Law.; Mishpat Ivri.; England.; English imprints, 18th century, 1726.; Early works.; History.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Wilkins, David,; Bowyer, William,; Palmer, Samuel,; Wood, Thomas,; Yeates, Jasper,; Vernon, Bowater,

Place: Great Britain England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 720 1726; Book 721 1726; Book 722 1726; Book 723 1726; Book 725 1726; Book 724 1726

A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c

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Author: Cowell, John,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Call Number: Book 793 1727

Alternate Title: Interpreter of words and terms

Author: Cowell, John,

Uniform Title: Interpreter

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe ... [and 10 others],

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Physical Description: [488] p. ; 33 cm. (folio)

Notes: Originally issued with title: The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.; Signatures: Aâ¶ B-Zâ´ 2A-2Zâ´ 3A-3Nâ´ 3O-3QÂ².; The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.; "Books lately printed": p. [488], 3Q2v.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 793 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC (RLIN)

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.; Names, Geographical - Great Britain.; Law.; Names, Geographical.; Great Britain.; Dictionaries.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 793 1727

Officium clerici pacis : a book of indictments, informations, inquisitions and appeals. Also the manner of holding the sessions of peace, with divers other matters relating thereunto, and necessary to be known by justices and clerks of the peace, coroners, attornies and others

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Edition: 3d ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1726.

Call Number: Book 942 1726

Alternate Title: Book of indictments, informations, inquisitions, and appeals

Edition: 3d ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for D. Browne, and J. Walthole,

Date of Publication: 1726.

Physical Description: 453, [17] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Introductions in English or Latin, balance of text chiefly in Latin.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 942 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Criminal law - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Justices of the peace - Great Britain - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Criminal law.; Criminal procedure.; Justices of the peace.; Great Britain.; Handbooks and manuals.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 942 1726

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