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Pennsylvania and Philadelphia court records
Collection includes the following Philadelphia (Pa.) Court Records: miscellaneous legal papers, including grand jury lists, commitments, indictments, summonses, 1697-1821; copies of petitions to quarter sessions at court, 1718-1775; Minute book of commissioners and assessors, 1771-1774; Quarter Sess...
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| Collection: | Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Court Records |
| Collection Number: | 3462 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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3.5 Linear feet 10 boxes, 3 volumes |
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Collection is open for research. |
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Collection includes the following Philadelphia (Pa.) Court Records: miscellaneous legal papers, including grand jury lists, commitments, indictments, summonses, 1697-1821; copies of petitions to quarter sessions at court, 1718-1775; Minute book of commissioners and assessors, 1771-1774; Quarter Session of Peace docket, 1780-1785; Jury lists, 1806-1818; Docket of debt department of prison, 1832-1834; Index to wills and administrations, 1681-1825 (unaccounted for); account book of county tax office, 1770 (unaccounted for).
Court dockets include:
Court record, 1685-1686; Court of Common Pleas, 1706-1766; John Ross dockets, 1738-1754 (place unknown); 1738-1745 (Phila.); 1745-1750 (Phila.); 1743-1749 (Lancaster); unidentified lawyers' docket, 1721-22; Continuance Docquett, 1765; Dockets, Dec. 1758-March 1776 (12 volumes); Docket, 1805-1808; John Edwards docket, 1808-1819. Also (formerly Am .30923) contains Pennsylvania Supreme Court dockets, 1753-1767, along with all of the county court dockets. County court docket entries are brief, sometimes noting only the names of parties and whether it was a capias case (requiring arrest) or a summons case. Many entries note that the dispute was over a debt. Some entries record whether parties appeared, outcome, payment of fees, and other details often given in cryptically abbreviated form. Dockets do not record dates of specific cases, only date of term. (Apparently terms were quarterly.) Some later entries include amount of debt or amount of bail. Philadelphia County Court dockets, 1758-1776; New Castle Court docket, 1760-1764; York County Court docket, 1773-1774; Bucks County Court docket, 1774; and Lancaster County Court docket, February 1775. The last two dockets (1769-72 and 1772-76) are titled "Peter J. Lloyd Phila. Co. Court Docket." |