LancasterHistory Research Collections

The acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered, or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city, and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1775.
Call Number
Book 586 1775
  1 website  
Responsibility
Published by order of Assembly.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers,
Date of Publication
1775.
Physical Description
xxi, 536, 22, [12], 3 pages 36 cm
Notes
Edited by J. Galloway. Cf. Evans 14364.
"Appendix" (22 p. (3d group)) has special t.p., with same imprint.
LCHS copy imperfect: "Addendum" (3 p. at end) wanting.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonnial Law Library.
On front flyleaf: Joseph Pennock his Book; Joseph Pennock; Jesse Pennocks Book and presented to Thomas Pennock.
Book number 586 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Ownership.
Pennsylvania.
Legislation.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Covers loose (Binding)
Additional Author
Galloway, Joseph,
Pennock, Joseph,
Pennock, Jesse,
Pennock, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 586 1775
Websites
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Proceedings and debates of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Date of Publication
1787-1788.
Call Number
Book 592 1787-1788
Alternate Title
Debates of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Thomas Lloyd ...
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Humphreys ...,
Date of Publication
1787-1788.
Physical Description
4 v. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Publisher statement varies: v. 2: Printed by Joseph James; v. 3-4: Printed for the editor.
Vols. 1-2 published in 1787; v. 3-4 in 1788.
Vol. 1: 143, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 189, [3] p.; v. 3: [2], 234 [i.e. 238] [2] p. ; v. 4: 348 p.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 592 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHO copy imperfect volume 4 wanting.
Book plate of William Bingham with handwritten note: bought of his Executers, Dec 6, 1863.
Evans
Subjects
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Sources.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Bingham, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 592 1787-1788
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Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original

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Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Date of Publication
1814.
Call Number
Book 264 1814
Responsibility
by Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
P. Byrne,
Date of Publication
1814.
Physical Description
579 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 264 as assigned by Yeates.
Memorandum as to errata of this publication on back of page 579.
Subjects
Blackstone, William, - 1723-1780.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law - Great Britain.
Law.
Great Britain.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Smith, Charles,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 264 1814
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Harrisburg the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-eighth. : Volume XXIV

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1813.
Call Number
Book 36 1813
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Christian Gleim,
Date of Publication
1813.
Physical Description
560, 42 [i.e. 24] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 7, 1813 and concluded Mar. 28, 1814.
Error in paging: p. 24, 2nd count, misnumbered 42.
"Index to the Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, session 1813-14"--24 p., 2nd count. Recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 32469.
"Members of Senate, whose seats will be vacated."--Page 560.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 36 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Full leather (Binding)
Blind tooling with maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gleim, Christian,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, session 1813-14.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Harrisburg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 36 1813
Websites
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Journal of the twenty sixth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Commenced at Harrisburg, Tuesday the fifth of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the commonwealth the fortieth

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1815 [i.e. 1816].
Call Number
Book 37 1815
  2 websites  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by James Peacock.,
Date of Publication
1815 [i.e. 1816].
Physical Description
715, [1], 84, lvii [i.e. lix], [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 5, 1815 and concluded Mar. 19, 1816.
Errors in paging: p. 329 misnumbered 229; numbers lv-lvi repeated.
Last page blank.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at tope of title page.
Book number 37 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker records the Appendix (84 p., 2nd count) separately as entry 38577.
"Appendix to the Journal of the twenty sixth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1815-16"--Page [1]-84, 2nd count.
"Index to the Journal of the twenty sixth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1815-16"--Page [i]-lvii, 3rd count.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Full leather (Binding)
Blind tooling with maroon title (Binding)
Additional Author
Peacock, James,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Appendix to the Journal of the twenty sixth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 1815-16.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Harrisburg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 37 1815
Websites
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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, being a complete digest of all such acts of Assembly, as concern the commonwealth at large. To which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of precedents (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace, sheriffs, attornies and conveyancers

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Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
MDCCCI-04.
Call Number
Book 326 1801
Book 327 1804
Responsibility
By Collinson Read.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for the author.
Date of Publication
MDCCCI-04.
Physical Description
2 volumes 22 cm
Notes
Vol. 2 has imprint: Philadelphia: Printed and published by H. Maxwell, no. 25, North Second street. 1804.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 326 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten title page for volume one.
Handwritten index, [24 p.]
Handritten letter from Read to Yeates answering Yeates's objections against his digest affixed to front fly leaf.
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania.
Forms (Law)
Law.
Pennsylvania.
Digests.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 326 1801
Book 327 1804
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-fourth. : Volume XX

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810].
Call Number
Book 32a 1809
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
William Greer, printer--Lancaster.,
Date of Publication
1809 [i.e. 1810].
Physical Description
569, [3], 27, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 5, 1809 and concluded Mar. 20, 1810.
Last page blank.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 32 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania. Session 1809-10. William Greer, printer. 1810"--27 p., 2nd count.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Full leather binding with gold lettering on maroon leather on spine.
Additional Author
Greer, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Index to the Journal of the Senate of Pennsylvania, session 1809-10.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 32a 1809
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Precedents in the office of a justice of peace : to which is added a short system of conveyancing, in a method entirely new : with an appendix, containing a variety of the most useful forms

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Author
Read, Collinson,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
Responsibility
by Collinson Read, Esquire.
Author
Read, Collinson,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[4], 63, [1], 33, [1] p. : forms ; 20 cm.
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-E⁴ [F]⁴ G-H⁴ ²A-D⁴ ²E²( -E2).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 203 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Subjects
Justices of the peace - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Forms (Law)
Justices of the peace.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
Blank forms.
Three-quarters leather and marbled paper (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 203 1794
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Laws enacted in the third sitting of the seventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty and three

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1783]
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws (1783 Aug.-Sept.)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1783]
Physical Description
P. [1], 186-254, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication supplied by Hildeburn and Evans.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the sixth General Assembly of the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the sitting which commenced at Philadelphia on Monday, the twenty-second day of October, and continued by adjournment to Friday, the twenty-eighth day of December, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, Philadelphia, 1782 (Evans 17659).
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXXI-CII signed and enacted in the months of August and September, 1783 by Frederick Muhlenburg, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Z. Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Signatures: 3A-3S².
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
History.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Pod, Alexander.
Sharwood, Geo.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
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Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty-third

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1808 [i.e. 1809].
Call Number
Book 30 1808
Alternate Title
Journal of the House of Representatives.
Index to the Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Benjamin Grimler.,
Date of Publication
1808 [i.e. 1809].
Physical Description
946, 8, [2], 9-40 p. ; 22 cm
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 6, 1808 and concluded April 4, 1809.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 30 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--8, [2], 40 p., has separate t.p. with imprint: Lancaster Printed by Benjamin Grimler, 1809.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Legislative proceedings - Pennsylvania - 1808-1809.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 30 1808
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