Research Catalog

Title

Charter to William Penn, and laws of the province of Pennsylvania : passed between the years 1682 and 1700, preceded by Duke of York's laws in force from the year 1676 to the year 1682, with an Appendix containing laws relating to the organization of the provincial courts and historical matter / published under the direction of John Blair Linn, Secretary of the Commonwealth ; compiled and edited by Staughton George, Benjamin M. Nead, Thomas McCamant.

Author

Pennsylvania. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022911

Publication

Harrisburg : L.S. Hart, State Printer, 1879.

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Additional Authors

• England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79074259
• George, Staughton.
• McCamant, Thomas, 1840-
• Nead, Benjamin Matthias, 1847-1923.
• Pennsylvania. Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1682-1700) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022911
• Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Commonwealth. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81102515

Description

iv, 614 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Laws, etc. (Compiled statutes : 1676)

Alternative Title

Laws, etc. (Compiled statutes : 1676)

Subjects

• Pennsylvania > Charters
• Delaware > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Courts > Pennsylvania
• Law > Pennsylvania

Note

• Includes indexes.
• In pocket of volume is a "Fac-simile of the charter granted by Charles the Second to William Penn for the 'province of Pensilvania,' engraved from the original on file in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth."

Contents

Appendix A. Compiliation of the laws and ordinances establishing the several courts of judicature of the Province of Pensylvania / by Staughton George -- Appendix B. Historical notes on the early government and legislative councils and assemblies of Pennsylvania / by Benjamin M. Nead.

LCCN

18001897

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library