Record of the Courts of Chester County [Pennsylvania], 1681-1697

$4500


Chester County was one the first three counties in Pennsylvania and was created in 1682. It sits in the southeastern corner of the state boarding Maryland. This book is a copulation of multiple types of courts such as: Court of Common Pleas and Court of Quarter Sessions and Orphans’ Court. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments of county officials, appointed administrators, marked public roads, granting of licenses to “ordinaries”, taxes being levied, civil actions of a wide variety, persons being tried for offenses against the peace & dignity of the State, list of juries, guardian accounts of orphans, Wills, and countless numbers of Deed Acknowledgements.

The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

(1910), 2018, index, 430 pp.

ISBN: 9780893089078

117-PA3