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Records of the COUNTY GOVERNMENTS
There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania including
the consolidated city-county of Philadelphia, and each inhabitant of the state
lives in and comes under the jurisdiction of one of them. The largest population
is Philadelphia with over one and a half million people; the smallest is Forest
with approximately five thousand. The Constitution establishes a basic organization,
but counties can adopt their own form of government. Six counties have adopted
home rule charters: Philadelphia, Delaware, Erie, Lackawanna, Lehigh and Northampton.
To view information relative to county municipalities and incorporation dates,
you can view the publication entitled Incorporation
Dates for Pennsylvania Municipalities by clicking on the link. This was
published by the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs in 1965 and while
somewhat outdated, still provides accurate information on the formation of townships,
boroughs, counties, etc.
County Functions Counties continue
to serve in their traditional role as agents of the state for law enforcement,
judicial administration and the conduct of elections. The county is also responsible
for the property assessment function. Counties become involved in regional planning,
solid waste disposal and public health. They perform welfare functions, including
mental health. Counties also can establish housing and redevelopment authorities
and conduct community development programs. Counties maintain hospitals and homes
for the aged. Counties may support local libraries and community colleges.
Legislation enacted in recent years has strengthened the policymaking role of
boards of county commissioners, granting them greater control of and responsibility
for county government. The geographic size of counties enables them to cope with
functions that can be better performed on an area wide basis, that is, mass transportation
and environmental protection.
County Government
County government,
as provided for in the county codes, may be described as a "no-executive" type.
The chief governing body is the three member board of county commissioners. But
there are also numerous other elected officials to a large extent independent
of the county commissioners. These include the sheriff, district attorney, prothonotary,
clerk of courts, register of wills, clerk of the orphans' court, coroner, recorder
of deeds and two jury commissioners whose duties are mostly concerned with the
work of the county court. Additionally, there are the elective offices of the
controller or three auditors and the treasurer who are county finance officers.
A public defender is appointed as provided by law. The county commissioners, the
elected officers and the county court individually or jointly appoint a number
of other county officials and employes needed to carry out county functions by
law.
Whereas the 11 elected county officials are enumerated in the Pennsylvania
Constitution, their powers and duties are prescribed by statutes which are scattered
throughout the county codes and general state laws. Consolidation of certain elected
offices is provided by state law in the smaller class counties involving the offices
of prothonotary, clerk of courts, register of wills, clerk of the orphans' court,
and recorder of deeds.
The following are records among the holdings
of the State Archives. In addition, the Archives makes available microfilm copies
of county records. See County GovernmentsMicrofilm List.
Clerk of Courts
- Auditors Reports, 1882-1910. (3 volumes)
{#47.276} [Description] [Holdings]
- Birth
and Death Records, 1893-1905. (2 cartons and 1 volume) {#47.431} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Criminal Trial Lists,
1817-1841. (1 carton) {#47.298} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Delayed Birth Certificates,
1941-1970. (4 volumes) {#47.277} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Marriage License Dockets,
1885-1908. (8 volumes) {#47.278} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Oaths of Office, 1800-1821.
(1 volume) {#47.279} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Oyer and Terminer Book,
1873-1936. (1 volume) {#47.280} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Session Blotter,
1883-1884. (1 volume) {#47.281} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Session Dockets,
1800-1911. (16 volumes) {#47.282} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Session Records,
Criminal, 1801-1936. (6 cartons) {#47.297} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Session Records,
Miscellaneous Civil, 1795-1910, 1920, 1930, 1972. (14 cartons) {#47.299}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Record Book, Civil, 1813-1816. (1 volume) {#47.283} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book, Criminal,
1848-1870. (2 volumes) {#47.284} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Register of Births, 1893-1905.
(2 volumes) {#47.285} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Register of Deaths, 1893-1905.
(2 volumes) {#47.286} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration of Births,
1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.287} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration of Births
Index, 1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.288} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration of Deaths,
1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.289} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration of Deaths
Index, 1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.290}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Registration
of Marriages, 1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.291} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Registration of Marriages
Index, 1852-1855. (1 volume) {#47.292} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Road Dockets, 1850-1918.
(2 volumes) {#47.293} [Description]
[Holdings]
Board
of County Commissioners Controller
- Pittsburgh Riot Claims, 1880-1882. (7 cartons) {#47.3} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Analysis Records, 1918-1924.
(3 volumes) {#47.197} [Description] [Holdings]
- Bills,
1916-1921. (1 volume) {#47.198} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Bond Ledger, 1880-1938. (1
volume) {#47.199} [Description] [Holdings]
- Book
of Laws, 1913. (1 volume) {#47.200} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Daybook Journals, 1920-1927.
(4 volumes) {#47.201} [Description] [Holdings]
- Delinquent
Tax Registers, 1896-1902, 1920-1927. (8 volumes) {#47.202} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Discharged
Criminal Case Registers, 1920-1926. (2 volumes) {#47.203}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Ledgers,
1912-1926. (5 volumes) {#47.204} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Letter Press Books, 1903-1927.
(40 volumes) {#47.205} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Road Bond Ledger, 1901-1939.
(1 volume) {#47.206} [Description] [Holdings]
- Thorn
Hill School Records, 1916-1953. (6 volumes) {#47.303} [Description]
[Holdings]
Coroner
District
Attorney
Prothonotary
- Applications for Admission to the Bar and Admission Certificates of the
Allegheny County Bar, 1883-1911, 1932-1980. (5 cartons) {#47.6} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dentist Registers, 1883-1897,
1914-1924, 1931-1964. (3 volumes) {#47.9} [Description]
[Holdings]
- List of Attorneys and Law
Students, 1788-1981. (2 volumes) {#47.7} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Medical Registers, 1881-1889,
1913-1927. (3 volumes) {#47.351} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Midwife Register, 1920-1931.
(1 volume) {#47.352} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometry Register, 1918-1971.
(1 volume) {#47.353} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopathic Register, 1909-1929.
(1 volume) {#47.354} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Register, 1908-1964.
(1 volume) {#47.355} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Veterinary Medical Register,
1889-1922. (1 volume){#47.356} [Description]
[Holdings]
Recorder
of Deeds Treasurer
Board of
County Commissioners Prothonotary
Recorder
of Deeds
Register
of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans'
Court
Prothonotary
- Medical Register, 1904-1973. (1 volume) {#47.228} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometry Register, 1918-1979.
(1 volume) {#47.229} [Description] [Holdings]
*Blair County Charter Books, 1846-1993. (20 volumes) are maintained in Record
Group 26, Department of State, Corporation Bureau as series #26.114.
Board
of County Commissioners
- Tax Duplicates, 1926-1955. (308
volumes) {#47.322} [Description] [Holdings]
Prothonotary
- Adsectum
Indexes, 1813-1870, 1873-1890. (8 volumes) {#47.330} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Appearance Dockets, 1813-1907.
(194 volumes) {#47.328} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Appearance Docket Indexes,
1813-1870, 1873-1890. (5 volumes) {#47.331} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Auditors Report Dockets
and Indexes, 1846-1957. (13 volumes) {#47.332} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Chattel Mortgages Indices,
1950-1954. (2 volumes) {#47.325} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Defendants Index,
1871-1873. (1 volume) {#47.333} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dentist Registers, 1883-1956.
(2 volumes) {#47.12} [Description] [Holdings]
- Divorce Indexes, 1879-1977. (2 volumes) {#47.334} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Ejectment Index, 1856-1891.
(1 volume) {#47.324} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Indices and Dockets,
1822-1961. (53 volumes) {#47.326} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to Assigned Judgments,
1878-1915. (1 volume) {#47.327} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Judgement Dockets,
1827-1886. (20 volumes) {#47.323} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Judgment Indexes, 1881-1923.
(22 volumes) {#47.258} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Locality Indexes, 1903-1980.
(2 volumes) {#47.335} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mechanics Lien Dockets and
Index, 1840-1938. (11 volumes) {#47.336} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometrist Register, 1918-1967.
(1 volume) {#47.13} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopathic Register, 1909-1924.
(1 volume) {#47.14} [Description] [Holdings]
- Oyer and Terminer Dockets and Index, 1851-1956, 1968. (10 volumes) {#47.337}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Partition Dockets, 1878-1912. (2 volumes) {#47.338} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Physician Registers, 1881-1939.
(2 volumes) {#47.15} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Plaintiffs Index, 1871-1873.
(1 volume) {#47.339} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Of Married Women To
Secure Their Separate Earnings, 1873-1895. (1 volume) {#47.16} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Session Dockets, 1813-1842,
1850-1884, 1887-1968. (62 volumes) {#47.340} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Session Docket Indexes, 1814-1968,
1980-1985. (5 volumes) {#47.341} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Registers, 1893-1950.
(3 volumes) {#47.17} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Surplus Bond Record and
Index, 1898-1976. (2 volumes) {#47.342} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Veterinarian Registers,
1889-1896, 1905-1911. (2 volumes) {#47.18}
[Description] [Holdings]
Board of
County Commissioners Board of Elections and Voter
Registrations - Deceased and Cancelled Foreign Born Voter Registration
Forms, 1937-1974. (12 cartons) {#47.24} [Description]
[Holdings]
Clerk
of the Orphans' Court Prothonotary
- Dental Register, 1898-1940. (1 volume) {#47.266}
[Description] [Holdings]
-
Dental Hygienist Register, 1930-1934. (1 volume) {#47.267} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Midwives Certificates,
1914-1937. (1 volume) {#47.268} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Midwives Register, 1914-1937.
(1 volume) {#47.269} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometry Register, 1918-1962.
(1 volume) {#47.270} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopathic Register, 1909-1928.
(1 volume) {#47.271} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Physicians
Registers, 1881-1936. (2 volumes) {#47.272} [Description]
[Holdings]
-
Stallion Registers, 1894-1904, 1908-1939. (2 volumes) {#47.273} [Description]
[Holdings]
-
Veterinarian Register, 1889-1893. (1 volume) {#47.274} [Description]
[Holdings]
Board
of County Commissioners
Prothonotary Treasurer
Board
of County Commissioners
Prothonotary
Clerk of Courts
Almshouse
and County Home
- Administrative Files, 1937-1955. (1 carton)
{#47.245} [Description] [Holdings]
- Bonds for Maintenance of Bastard Children, 1873-1948. (1 carton) {#47.247}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Comptroller's Reports, 1915-1924, 1926-1927, 1929, 1933-1939. (20 volumes)
{#47.244} [Description] [Holdings]
- Correspondence, 1916-1924. (1 carton) {#47.246} [Description]
[Holdings]
- County Home Admission Records,
1920-1960. (9 cartons and 1 box) {#47.233} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Daily Reports of Inmates, 1920.
(1 volume) {#47.186} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Daily Reports, 1915-1939.
(2 index card boxes) {#47.191} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Directors of the Poor
Minute Books, 1910-1937. (4 volumes and 3 folders) {#47.243} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Emergency Relief Records, 1931-1937.
(38 cartons) {#47.239} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Financial Ledgers, 1912-1956.
(6 volumes) {#47.241} [Description] [Holdings]
- Journal of Boarders, 1916-1920. (2 volumes) {#47.185} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book of Children
and County Home Patients, 1931-1936. (1 volume) {#47.190} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book of Children, Insane
and Feeble-Minded Boarders, 1917-1931. (2 volumes) {#47.187} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book of Insane,
Feeble-Minded and Epileptics, 1931-1936. (1 volume) {#47.188} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Register of Admissions
and Discharges, 1873-1928. (3 volumes) {#47.189} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Relief Ledgers, 1916-1919,
1935-1937. (2 volumes) {#47.242} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Warrant Registers, 1914-1955.
(14 volumes) {#47.240} [Description]
[Holdings]
Board
of County Commissioners Clerk
of Courts - Arbitration Dockets, 1832-1843. (2 volumes) {#47.36}
[Description]
[Holdings]
- Argument List, 1931-1941. (1 volume) {#47.296} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Attorney's Receipt Books
for Papers, 1850-1871, 1877-1888. (5 volumes) {#47.37} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Cash Book, 1929-1938. (1
volume) {#47.38} [Description] [Holdings]
- Common Pleas Argument Lists, 1891-1901, 1909-1919. (2 volumes) {#47.39}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Common Pleas Plea Dockets, 1841-1863, 1874-1912. (7 volumes) {#47.40}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Common Pleas Process Returnable Books, 1797-1800. (1 volume) {#47.41}
[Description]
[Holdings]
- Common Pleas Trial Lists, 1841-1846, 1854-1861, 1887-1892.
(3 volumes) {#47.42} [Description] [Holdings]
- Common Pleas Watch Books, 1803-1807, 1858-1865. (2 volumes) {#47.43}
[Description]
[Holdings]
- Cost Dockets, 1804-1829, 1913-1916. (2 volumes) {#47.44}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Daily Cash Receipt Book, 1930-1932. (1 volume) {#47.45} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Justice of the Peace and
Aldermen's Dockets, 1836-1843, 1900-1931. (3 volumes) {#47.46} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Minute Books of the Court
of Common Pleas, 1822-1843, 1910-1917. (7 volumes) {#47.47} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Miscellaneous Account Book,
1931. (1 volume) {#47.48} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Opinion Book, 1938-1940,
(1 volume) {#47.295} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Sessions and Oyer and
Terminer Papers, 1785-1903. (64 cartons) {#47.49} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Sessions Papers,
1789-1860. (5 folders) {#47.195}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book of Insolvents,
1807-1847. (1 volume) {#47.50} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record Book of Peddler's
Licenses Issued, 1786-1809, 1830-1855. (2 volumes) {#47.51}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Rule Dockets of the Court
of Common Pleas, 1851-1883, 1895-1903. (3 volumes) {#47.52} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sentence Dockets, 1886-1929.
(6 volumes) {#47.53} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Session Return Book, 1887-1888.
(1 volume) {#47.54} [Description] [Holdings]
- Session Dockets, 1898-1899, 1916-1922. (2 volumes) {#47.55} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Session Minute Books of the
Court of Oyer and Terminer and the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1834-1929. (25 volumes)
{#47.56} [Description] [Holdings]
- Sessions Minute Books of Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Quarter Sessions
and Common Pleas, 1809-1815. (2 volumes) {#47.57} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Unidentified Index, [ca.
1838]. (1 volume) {#47.58} [Description]
[Holdings]
Prothonotary
- Accounts of the Olive Encampment No. 56, International Organization of
Odd Fellows, 1863-1868. (1 volume) {#47.59} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Ad-Sectum Indexes, 1792-1935.
(13 volumes) {#47.60} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Appearance Dockets, 1879-1887.
(10 volumes) {#47.61} [Description] [Holdings]
- Appearance Dockets Papers, 1785-1903, 1932. (164 cartons) {#47.367}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Applications of Veterans for Peddler's Licenses, 1867-1905. (1 carton) {#47.62}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Census Report, 1860. (1 volume) {#47.63} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Circuit Court Execution
Docket, 1800-1834. (1 volume) {#47.64} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Commission Book, 1840-1862.
(1 volume) {#47.65} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Common Pleas Minute Books,
1836-1840, 1843-1848, 1853-1860, 1871-1904, 1917-1948. (11 volumes) {#47.66}
[Description] [Holdings]
- County Treasurer's Receipts for Clock Peddlers Licenses, 1830-1845. (1
box) {#47.67} [Description] [Holdings]
- Delinquent Note Books, 1857-1858, 1865-1866. (2 volumes) {#47.68}
[Description]
[Holdings]
- Dentist Registers, 1883-1934. (2 volumes) {#47.69}
[Description] [Holdings]
- District Court Execution Docket, 1823-1828. (1 volume) {#47.70} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Divorce, Lunatic and Drunkard
Indexes, 1880-1930. (2 volumes) {#47.71} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dog Registers, 1879-1921.
(2 volumes) {#47.72} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Ejectment Index, 1856-1924.
(1 volume) {#47.73} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Equity Docket Papers, 1920-1925.
(1 carton and 1 box) {#47.309} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Equity Files, 1873-1922.
(17 cartons) {#47.414} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Docket Defendent
(Ad-sectum) Indexes, 1787-1967. (27 volumes) {#47.74} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Docket Plaintiff
Indexes, 1886-1933. (22 volumes) {#47.75} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Dockets, 1791-1906.
(24 volumes) {#47.76} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Fifth Census of the Inhabitants
of the United States of 1830. (1 volume) {#47.77} [Description]
[Holdings]
- General Index to Bond Books,
1785-1837. (1 volume) {#47.78} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Insurance Certificates,
1880-1887. (1 folder) {#47.411} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Jury List Books, 1895-1933.
(3 volumes) {#47.79} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Liquor License Dockets,
1895-1924. (2 volumes) {#47.80}[Description]
[Holdings]
- List of Freeholders, Tenants
and Single Men, undated. (1 volume) {#47.81}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Locality Indexes, undated,
1901-1929. (5 volumes) {#47.82} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Maps, 1862-1898. (1 folder)
{#47.181} [Description] [Holdings]
- Middletown Car and Manufacturing Company Assignee Account Record, 1874.
(1 volume) {#47.83} [Description] [Holdings]
- Midwife Register, 1921-1924. (1 volume) {#47.84} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Midwife Registration Receipt
Book, 1921-1924. (1 volume) {#47.85} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometrist Register, 1918-1967.
(1 volume) {#47.86} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopath Register, 1909-1926.
(1 volume) {#47.87} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Petitions for Peddlers'
Licenses, 1796-1881. (7 folders) {#47.88} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Petitions to Execute Deeds and
Articles of Agreements, 1789-1831. (4 folders) {#47.30} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Physician Registers, 1881-1928.
(3 volumes) {#47.89} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Railroad and Canal Damage
Claim Book, 1826-1833. (1 volume) {#47.90} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Septennial Census Enumeration,
1856. (1 volume) {#47.91}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Soldiers' Burial Record Books,
1902-1933. (7 volumes) {#47.92} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Register, 1894-1913.
(1 volume) {#47.93} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Street Index, undated.
(2 volumes) {#47.94} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Subpeonas, 1794-1800. (1
folder) {#47.112} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tavern Licenses, 1785-1803,
(1 box) {#47.294} [Description] [Holdings]
- Veterinary Surgeon Register, 1889-1904. (1 volume) {#47.95} [Description]
[Holdings]
Tax
Assessment Office Board
of County Commissioners Prothonotary
- Ad-sectum Indexes, 1821-1940. (22 volumes) {#47.97}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Appearance
Dockets, 1823-1851. (16 volumes) {#47.98} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Direct Indexes, 1830-1940.
(22 volumes) {#47.99} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Dockets, 1823-1970.
(81 volumes) {#47.100} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Docket Indexes, 1825-1973.
(12 volumes) {#47.101} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to City of Erie Liens
Not Including General Liens, 1879-1899. (3 volumes) {#47.102} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Judgement Dockets, 1827-1830,
1839-1950. (132 volumes) {#47.103} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mechanics' Lien Dockets,
1837-1954, 1956-1969. (50 volumes) {#47.104} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mechanics' Lien Docket
Indexes, 1856-1981. (5 volumes) {#47.105} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Naturalization Papers,
1801, 1819-1820, 1823-1940. (10 cartons, 75 volumes) {#47.106} [Description]
[Holdings]
Recorder
of Deeds - Deed Grantee Indexes, 1920-1958. (58 volumes)
{#47.234} [Description] [Holdings]
- Deed Grantor Indexes, 1920-1958. (68 volumes)
{#47.235} [Description] [Holdings]
- Deed
Mortgagor Indexes, 1920-1958. (60 volumes) {#47.236} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dentist Register and Soldiers'
Discharge Index Book, 1883-1896. (1 volume) {#47.107} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to Power of Attorney
Papers, 1824-1935. (1 volume) {#47.108} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Miscellaneous and
Contract Indexes, 1824-1958. (26 volumes and 2 cubic feet) {#47.109} [Description]
[Holdings]
*Erie County Charter Books,
1865-1974. (21 volumes) are maintained in Record Group 26, Department of State,
Corporation Bureau as series #26.114.
Register
of Wills - Account Books, 1924-1946. (17 volumes) {#47.110}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Administration Bond Books, 1873-1953, 1956-1959. (33 volumes) {#47.111}
[Description]
[Holdings]
- Estate Files, 1823-1959. (500 cartons) {#47.387} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to Wills, 1822-1908.
(1 volume) {#47.113} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Inventory Books, 1929-1954.
(17 volumes) {#47.114} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Letters of Administration
Dockets, 1926-1953. (8 volumes) {#47.115} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Letters Testamentary Petition
Books, 1926-1953. (13 volumes) {#47.116} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Orphans' Court and Quarter
Sessions Argument Lists, 1883-1927. (2 volumes) {#47.117}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Proof of
Death Dockets, 1925-1953. (14 volumes) {#47.118} [Description]
[Holdings]
Prothonotary
- Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos, 1785,
1788-1826, 1830. (1 box) {#47.119} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Court Papers, 1839,
1844-1845, 1875-1890. (3 folders) {#47.209} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Marriage Bonds, 1785-1786,
1815. (1 folder) {#47.210} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Schoolmaster's Contracts,
1810-1812. (1 folder) {#47.211} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tavern Licenses, 1783-1921.
(20 cartons) {#47.208} [Description]
[Holdings]
Prothonotary
- Appearance Dockets, 1792-1919. (24 volumes) {#47.120} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Arbitration Dockets, 1850-1885.
(4 volumes) {#47.121} [Description] [Holdings]
- Board of Relief Book, 1856-1866. (1 volume) {#47.212}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Chattel
Mortgage Dockets, 1943-1973. (3 volumes) {#47.122} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Common Pleas Minute Books,
1821-1872, 1890-1905. (14 volumes) {#47.123} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Conditional Sales Dockets,
1925-1954. (2 volumes) {#47.124} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Continuance Dockets, 1789-1850.
(20 volumes) {#47.125} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Debt Case Docket, 1844.
(1 volume) {#47.213} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Deed Polls, 1813, 1845-1846,
1857, 1859-1860, 1862-1864. (1 box) {#47.214} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Equity Dockets, 1849-1897, 1912-1954.
(2 volumes) {#47.126}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Execution Dockets, 1788-1859.
(11 volumes) {#47.127}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Judgement Docket Indexes, 1827-1958.
(27 volumes) {#47.128} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Judicial Sale Bonds, 1870,
1872. (1 folder) {#47.215} [Description]
[Holdings]
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(7 volumes) {#47.129} [Description] [Holdings]
- Physician Register, 1881-1946. (1 volume) {#47.130} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Plea Docket, 1840-1875. (1
volume) {#47.216} [Description] [Holdings]
- Record of Registration of Motor Vehicles, 1903. (1 volume) {#47.131} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Roll Book of Junior Order
of United American Mechanics, 1865-1866. (1 volume) {#47.217} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Secured Transaction Dockets,
1954-1961. (2 volumes) {#47.132} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Registers, 1894-1934.
(2 volumes) {#47.133} [Description] [Holdings]
- Tax Lien Dockets, 1901-1953. (3 volumes) {#47.134}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Veterinarian Register, 1890-1897.
(1 volume) {#47.135} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Civil Dockets, 1823-1906. (44 cartons) {#47.390}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Equity Papers, 1856-1910. (6 cartons) {#47.391} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Executive Dockets, 1831-1909.
(22 cartons) {#47.392 } [Description]
[Holdings]
- Fictitious Name Papers,
1917-1973. (2 cartons) {#47.29} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Insolvency Petitions,
1831-1921. (1 carton) {#47.393 } [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mechanics Lien Dockets,
1843-1932. (2 cartons) {#47.394 } [Description]
[Holdings]
- Naturalization Papers,
1831-1910 (5 cartons) {#47.28} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Partitions,
1857-1917. (.5 carton) {#47.395 } [Description]
[Holdings]
- Quarter Session Papers,
1831-1979. (3 cartons) {#47.396 } [Description]
[Holdings]
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(12 cartons) {#47.389} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Surplus Bonds, 1898-1974. (1
box) {#47.398} [Description] [Holdings]
- Testatums, 1861-1950. (.5 carton) {#47.397 } [Description]
[Holdings]
Clerk of Judicial
Records Clerk of Courts
Prothonotary
Tax
Assessment Office
- Acceptances, 1877-1979. (16 folders)
{#47.220} [Description] [Holdings]
- Americanization Schools Reports, 1921-1948. (10 folders) {#47.343}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Appointments of Election Officials, 1916-1921. (2 folders) {#47.227}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Assignment Bonds, 1853-1912. (1 carton) {#47.401} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Assignment Dockets, 1839-1928.
(4 volumes) {#47.312} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Assignments for the Benefit
of Creditors, 1833-1928. (14 cartons) {#47.400} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Auditors Reports on Personal
Estates, 1906-1908. (1 box) {#47.404} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Bonds of Elected Officials,
1946-1973. (1 folder) {#47.221} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Certifications of Elected
Officials, 1970-1981. (1 folder) {#47.222} [Description]
[Holdings]
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Returns, 1902-1979. (1 folder) {#47.223} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Charters, 1838, 1855-1856,
1860-1861, 1864-1877, 1879-1883, 1887-1901, 1903-1909, 1927, 1938, 1940-1966.
(8 cartons) {#47.218} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Circuit Court Records, 1826-1843,
1921. (10 folders) {#47.344} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Controllers' Reports, 1947-1954.
(8 volumes) {#47.345} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Deed Polls, Land Liens, Mortgages,
1870-1927. (1 carton) {#47.310} [Description]
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- Election Returns, 1915-1936.
(15 folders) {#47.224} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to Condemnations, 1856-1943.
(1 volume) {#47.410} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Index to Judgment Against Lunatics,
1880-1929. (1 volume) {#47.407} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Indexes to Sheriff's Return
for Sale of Real Estate, 1814-1904. (2 volumes) {#47.408} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Inquest Dockets, 1928-1941.
(2 volumes) {#47.311} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Justice of the Peace Dockets,
1869-1874, 1877-1891. (2 volumes) {#47.263} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Medical Registers, 1881-1934.
(2 volumes) {#47.313} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Naturalization Records, 1790-1991.
(22 cartons and 26 boxes) {#47.232} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometry Register, 1918-1975.
(1 volume) {#47.314} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Partition Dockets, 1863-1954.
(2 volumes) {#47.405} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Partnership Docket, 1851-1937.
(1 volume) {#47.315} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Petitions of Married Women
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[Holdings]
- Physicians' Statements, 1881-1905.
(17 folders) {#47.346} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Probation Office Annual Reports,
1961-1966, 1969-1974. (12 volumes) {#47.350} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Reapplications for Registration
of Automobiles, 1903-1905. (3 folders) {#47.347} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Returns of Elections of
School Directors, 1933, 1935, 1971-1981. (2 volumes and 1 folder) {#47.225}
[Description] [Holdings]
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(3 folders) {#47.226} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Deed Dockets, 1877-1905.
(6 volumes) {#47.403} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Docket, 1905-1908.
(1 volume) {#47.409} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Execution Dockets,
1815-1958. (73 volumes) {#47.402} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Soldiers' Peddlers Licenses,
1875-1970. (9 folders) {#47.348} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Student at Law Papers,
1826-1883. (1 folder) {#47.349} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Treasurer's Deed Docket, 1933-1934.
(1 volume) {#47.406} [Description] [Holdings]
- Veterinary Medical Register, 1898-1912. (1 volume) {#47.316} [Description]
[Holdings]
Board
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- Tax Records, 1809-1965. (1,658 volumes) {#47.139} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Annual Reports of Central Poor District, 1902, 1904, 1906-1908, 1910-1911,
1913, 1916-1917, 1921-1922, 1926, 1928-1936. (27 volumes) {#47.506}
[Description] [Holdings]
Clerk of Courts Prothonotary
Register
of Wills
Prothonotary
- Automobile Register, 1903-1905. (1 volume) {#47.145} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dentist Register, 1883-1941.
(3 volumes) {#47.146} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dog Register, 1881-1907.
(1 volume) {#47.147} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Optometrist Register,
1918-1954. (1 volume) {#47.148} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopath Certificate
and Stub Book, 1909-1926. (1 volume) {#47.149} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Osteopath Register, 1909-1960.
(1 volume) {#47.150} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Physician Registers,
1881-1920. (2 volumes) {#47.151}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Register of Certificates of
Medical Practitioners, 1880. (1 volume) {#47.152} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Registers, 1894-1940.
(2 volumes) {#47.153}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Veterinarian Register, 1889-1906.
(1 volume) {#47.154} [Description]
[Holdings]
Prothonotary
and Clerk of Courts
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Board of
County Commissioners Recorder of Deeds
Board of
County Commissioners Board of
County Commissioners Court Administrator
Clerk
of Courts
- Appropriation Files, 1891-1892, 1898-1942. (1 carton)
{#47.362} [Description] [Holdings]
- Cash Ledger, 1886-1888. (1 volume) {#47.368} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Controller's Annual Reports,
1923-1936, 1940-1941. (16 volumes) {#47.369} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Court Appointment Dockets,
1933-1976. (5 volumes) {#47.158} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Court Minute Books, 1857-1976.
(9 volumes) {#47.370} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Criminal Case Files, 1870-1920.
(84 cartons) {#47.361} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Dog Register, 1854-1912.
(1 volume) {#47.159} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Juvenile Dockets, 1920-1974.
(9 volumes) {#47.416} [Description] [Holdings]
- List of Applications for Retail, Wholesale, Bottling and Brewing Licenses,
1921-1932. (2 volumes) {#47.160} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Miscellaneous Docket,
1940-1976. (1 volume) {#47.417} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Oyer and Terminer Dockets,
1824-1960. (8 volumes) {#47.418} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Retail, Wholesale, Brewers'
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[Holdings]
- School District Treasurer's
Bond Books, 1894-1964. (7 volumes) {#47.371} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sessions Blotters, 1850-1963.
(48 volumes) {#47.363} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sessions Dockets, 1811-1969.
(97 volumes) {#47.415} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Settled Case Dockets, 1884-1939.
(5 volumes) {#47.419} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Supervisor's Bond Books, 1894-1945.
(3 volumes) {#47.372} [Description] [Holdings]
- Tax Collector's Bond Books, 1894-1977 (11 volumes). {#47.373}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Township and Boroughs Treasurer's Bond Books, 1894-1958. (5 volumes)
{#47.374} [Description] [Holdings]
Prothonotary Clerk of Courts
- Appointment Petitions, 1854-1855, 1857-1880, 1882-1933, 1937-1938. (2
cartons) {#47.167} [Description] [Holdings]
- Auditor's Reports, 1897-1898, 1900-1957. (4 cartons) {#47.168}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Coroner's Inquisitions, 1853-1922. (1 carton) {#47.169} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Election Returns, 1800,
1802-1805, 1807-1839, 1898, 1900, 1902-1905, 1907-1917. (4 cartons) {#47.170}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Reports of Directors of the Poor and the House of Employment and Managers
of the Somerset County Hospital, 1902-1904, 1906-1926. (1 carton) {#47.171}
[Description] [Holdings]
Prothonotary
- Execution Dockets, 1796-1805. (1 carton) {#47.384} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mechanics Liens, 1843-1921. (2 cartons) {#47.385} [Description]
[Holdings]
Clerk
of Courts Prothonotary
Prothonotary
Washington County
Board
of County Commissioners Prothonotary
*Washington County Charter
Books, 1897-1973. (21 volumes) are maintained in Record Group 26, Department of
State, Corporation Bureau as series #26.114.
Board
of County Commissioners Board
of County Commissioners
- Ballot Check Lists, 1934. (22 volumes) {#47.421} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Census Workbooks, 1870. (2 volumes) {#47.422}[Description]
[Holdings]
- Census Workbooks, 1880. (8 volumes) {#47.423} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Church Cost Book, 1940. (1 volume) {#47.424} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Commissioners' Tax Book, 1889-1894. (1 volume) {#47.425} [Description]
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- County Census Books, 1955. (12 volumes) {#47.426} [Description]
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[Holdings]
- County Home Food Purchases Ledger, 1926-1931. (1 volume) {#47.428}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Date Books, 1928-1929. (2 volumes) {#47.502} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Election Board Payroll and Equipment Rental, 1894-1899, 1906, 1932-1933.
(6 volumes) {#47.503} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Enrollment List of White Males Subject to Military Duty, 1865. (1 volume)
{#47.504} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Ledgers, 1856, 1882-1887, 1907-1908. (3 volumes) {#47.505} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Ledger of E.L. Grable, 1874-1924. (1 volume) {#47.433} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Memorandum Books, 1922-1923. (2 volumes) {#47.501} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Minutes, 1856-1863. (1 volume) {#47.434} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Minute Book, Taylor Wire Nail Company, 1889-1893. (1 volume) {#47.435}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Military Roll Books of Men Enrolled in Militia, 1919. (80 volumes) {#47.436}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Order Books, 1844, 1856-1862, 1871-1889, 1895. (6 volumes) {#47.437}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Personal Property Returns, 1937-1943. (2 volumes) {#47.438} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Petition of Candidates to Have Name on Ballot, 1912. (1 bundle) {#47.439}
[Description] [Holdings]
- Poor Warrant Stub Books, 1897-1901. (5 volumes) {#47.440} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Relief Order Books, 1862-1864. (3 volumes) {#47.441} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheep Claims, 1867-1880, 1888-1901. (4 volumes) {#47.442} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tax Collector's Accounts, 1828, 1866-1881, 1890-1896, 1905-1919. (10 volumes)
{#47.443} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tax Exoneration Dockets, 1848-1864, 1877-1882, 1892-1907, 1910-1924. (12
volumes and 1 carton) {#47.444} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tax Liens, 1909-1915. (1 volume) {#47.445} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tax Receipts Book, 1896-1897. (1 volume) {#47.446} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Warrants Registers, 1901-1916, 1921-1924, 1933, 1935-1936, 1938-1939. (9
volumes) {#47.447} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Warrants Stub Books, 1898-1907. (20 volumes) {#47.448} [Description]
[Holdings]
Controller
Prothonotary
- Alderman's Docket, 1926-1927. (1 volume) {#47.452} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Argument Lists, 1820-1836, 1862-1892. (12 volumes) {#47.453} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Charges, 1901-1927. (1 volume) {#47.454} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Constables Returns, 1880-1886. (1 volume) {#47.455} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Court Administrator's Docket, 1812-1887. (1 volume) {#47.456} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Coroner's Day Book, 1905-1907. (1 volume) {#47.457} [Description]
[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Discharge of Insolvent Prisoners and Bond Book, 1916-1936. (5 volumes) {#47.459}
[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Justice of the Peace, Constable, Notary Listing, 1886-1911. (1 volume) {#47.466}
[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Prisoner Commitments and Discharges, 1912-1917, 1940-1948. (2 volumes) {#47.473}
[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
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[Description] [Holdings]
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[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Tavern License Court Docket, 1890-1898. (1 volume) {#47.478} [Description]
[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
Recorder of Deeds
Sheriff
- Properties Seized for Tax Sale, 1950-1959. (1 volume) {#47.480} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Seated Lands Tax Sale Receipts, 1930. (1 volume) {#47.481} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Cash and Disbursement Dockets, 1884, 1905-1911. (2 volumes) {#47.482}
[Description] [Holdings]
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[Description] [Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Expense Accounts, 1935. (1 bundle) {#47.485} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Sheriff's Reports, 1905-1908. (1 volume) {#47.486} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Summons Dockets, 1817, 1844-1846, 1860-1865, 1878-1881, 1884-1887, 1907-1911.
(7 volumes) {#47.487} [Description]
[Holdings]
Treasurer
- Appointments, 1893-1905. (1 volume) {#47.488} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Appraisors Return of Mercantile and Other Licenses, 1885-1890, 1897-1898,
1923-1925, 1928-1930. (8 volumes) {#47.489} [Description]
[Holdings]
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[Description] [Holdings]
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- Dental Register, 1883-1913. (1 volume) {#47.492} [Description]
[Holdings]
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[Holdings]
- Dog and Auto Register, 1879-1923. (1 volume) {#47.494} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Drafts Register, 1815-1829. (1 volume) {#47.495} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Journals, 1923-1932, 1936-1939. (2 volumes) {#47.496} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Mercantile Licenses, 1897-1898. (4 volumes) {#47.497} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Record of Licenses, 1903-1911. (3 volumes) {#47.498} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Stallion Register, 1893-1908. (1 volume) {#47.499} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Tax Journal, 1896-1902. (1 volume) {#47.500} [Description]
[Holdings]
- Westmoreland Bank Journal and Teller's Statement, 1814-1823. (2 volumes)
{#47.468} [Description]
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