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Mr. Du Ponceau saw in this opportunity the means of erecting a law school. The organization was ex- pected to be of a dual character,-composed of nem- bers of the bar and judges as one class, and of students as another class. The old Law Society was merged into this institution. The Law Academy commenced its exercises in the early part of 1821, with thirty regular and eighteen honorary members. The acad- emy discusssed weekly some legal question before the provost or vice-provost, who at the next meeting de- livered his opinion,-not in the form of a judicial de- cision, but of a law lecture on the particular subject to which the question referred. Mr. Du Ponceau was ardent in his anticipation that the Law Academy might become, in time, a school of law of sufficient importance to be annexed to, and become a part of, the University of Pennsylvania.
In March, 1822, the Society for the Promotion of Legal Knowledge and Forensic Eloquence appointed Joseph Barnes, judge of the District Court, lecturer for the Law Academy upon "Common Law." In No- vember of the same year he delivered lectures on " Municipal Law." The existence of the Society for the Promotion of Legal Knowledge, etc., was brought to a close in a curious manner. It was probably in existence for a year or two. It came to an end in a strictly legal manner. The absence of the janitor on a night when there ought to have been an election for officers, prevented the accomplishment of that great duty. Then arose a controversy whether the society had not ceased to exist because its functions had not been continued at the right time and place according to the constitution. This was debated with great learning, and finally the differences of opinion engendered so much personal disagreement that in- difference followed, and the society died of inaction.
The Law Academy, which was a branch of the Society for Promoting Legal Knowledge, was not so
strictly technical as the society which had adopted it. The members refused to consider that it was dissolved, and they struggled on, determined to take care of themselves. They were successful. There were regu- lar elections, an increase of members, and sufficient enthusiasm to keep the Law Academy in motion.
In 1833, Mr. Du Ponceau, speaking of the unfor- tunate end of the Society for the Promotion of Legal Knowledge, etc., said, in his address to the Law Academy,-
" What the academy has done since is known to us all. I think I may safely say that no association of young students has distinguished itself as this academy has done. It was a happy idea of your faculty to include among your scholastic exercises the writing of dissertations upon legal subjects."
Several were produced of considerable merit, which the academy deemed worthy of publication.
The Law Academy, in fact, claims to have been originated in 1783. In 1838, when it was incorpor- ated, the academy ordered that the inscription upon the seal of the corporation should contain the words : "Founded, 1783; incorporated, 1838. Per aspera ad astra."
We subjoin a list of reports of Pennsylvania Courts, abridged from John Hill Martin's "Bench and Bar," in which it will be seen that this State is abundantly rich, and we are confident in saying that in the courts of no State in the Union do any reports rank higher than those of Pennsylvania :
MIS. Notes and Reports of cases between the years 1760 sad 1783.
Hopkinsea's Reports of forty-nine cases in Admiralty, printed in 1792.
Pennsylvania State Trials, 1794.
MS. Notes of J. Bradford Wallace, 1801 to 1816.
Wallace's Reports, 1802.
Peters' Admiralty Decisions, 2 vols., 1807. Opinion of Judge Cooper on Foreign Admiralty Cases, 1810.
Fisher's British License Cases, 1 vol., 1813.
Peters, Jr.'s, Reports, 1 vol., 1819.
Washington's Circuit Court Reports, 4 vols., 1826-29. Baldwin's Circuit Court Reports, 1 vol., 1837.
Gilpin's Reports, 1 vol., 1837. Crabhe's Reports, 1 vol., 1853.
Wallace, Jr.'s, Reports, 3 vols., 1849-62. Dallss' Reports, 4 vels., 1790-1807.
Addison's Reports, 1 vol., 1800.
Trial of Alexander Alison, 1803. Yeates' Reports, 4 vols., 1791-1808.
Bianey's Reports, 6 vels., 1809-15. The American Law Journal, 6 vols., 1809-16.
Browne's Reports, 1 vol., 1806-11. Sergeant & Rawle's Reports, 17 vols., 1818-29.
Rawle's Reports, 5 vols , 1829-36. The Journal of Law, 1 vol., 1831.
Ashniead's Reports, 2 vols., 1831-41. Penrose & Watts' Reports, 3 vols., 1832-33.
Watts' Reports, 10 vols., 1834-41.
Miles' Reports, 2 vols., 1835-41.
Wharton's Reports, 6 vols., 1835-41.
Watts & Sergeant's Reports, 9 vols., 1842-45.
Pennsylvania Law Journal, 5 vols., 1842-46.
Pennsylvania State Reports, 99 vols., 1845-81. P. F. Smith, 1 vol., 1881. Vaux's Decisions, I vol., 1846.
Parson's Select Equity Cases, 2 vols., 1841-60. Brightly's Nisi Prius, 1 vol., 1851. The American Law Register, 32 vols., 1852-84. Grant's Cases, 3 vols., 1859-04.
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John Hill Martin, Jr 's, Reports, 2 vols., 1858-67. John llill Martin's Admiralty Reports, 1 vol., 1858-60. Philadelphia Reporta, 12 vols .. 1860. Brewster's Reporte, 4 vols., 1869. Legal Gazette Reports, 1 vol., 1872.
Pennsylvania Law Journal Reports, 5 vols., 1872-73.
Pittsburgh Reports, 3 vols., 1872-73.
Legal Chronicle Reports, 2 vols., 1874-77. Truakey's Notes of Cases, 12 vols., 1874-83.
Pierson'e Reports, 2 vols., 1879-80. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, 1 vol., 1882. Luzerns Legal Register Reports, 1 vol., 1882.
The Legal Record Reports, 1 vol., 1881. The Legal Intelligencer, beginning in 1843.
Olwine's Legal Reporter, beginning in 1848. Tuckett's Monthly Insurance Journal, 2 vole., 1852-62.
The Insurance Intelligencer, 1857-62. The Philadelphia Intelligencer, 1862, onward. Legal and Insurance Reporter, begun 1859.
Luzerne Legal Observer, 1860-63.
The Lancaster Bar. 15 vols.
The Legal Gazette, 1869-76. Legal Opinion, 5 vols., 1870-73.
The Seronton Law Times, 3 vols., 1873-76 ; Ibid., New Series, 1 vol., 1877-78.
The Real Estate Reporter, begun 1875.
The Daily Court Record, begua 1877.
The Lackawanna Bar, I vol., 1878.
The Susquehanna Legol Chronicler, 1 vol., 1878-79.
The Lackawanna Legal Record, 1878-79.
The Common Pleos Reporter, 1878.
The York Legal Record, began 1880.
The Daily Legol News, 1879.
The Pennsylvania Law Record, 2 vols., 1879-80.
The Chester County Reporter, begun 1880.
The Weekly Reporter, 1881.
Persons appointed to administer the Laws in the County of Philadelphia and the Province of Pennsylvania from the Earliest Period to the Present Time : 1
THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYL- VANIA.
This high tribunal was established under the royal charter to William Penu, bearing date March 4, 1681, and by order of the Provincial Council of ye Ist of ye 2ad mo., 1684, and reorganized from time to time by dif- ferent Acts of the Assembly of the Province.
The following sketch, which is as complete as the records at Harris- hurg and elsewhere can make it, shows the organization and personnel of the court at different periode between 1684 sod 1776.
It will be observed that William Penn, as early as the 18th of 8th mo., 1685, in his letter to William Markham, "Dept. Govern'r of Peansyl- vania," says, "I have sent my Cosin William Crispen, . . . and it is my will and pleasure that he be as Chief Justice," etc., and although Andrew Roheeon, in 1693, ie the first of the " prior judges" (1 Proud, 295; 1 C. R., 86) that I find called chief justice, I have indicated each "prior judge" before his time as chief justice.
4th 6 mo., 1684 .- 1 C. R., 47, 66-8, and Ist Proud, 286; " Rawle's Equity," 9. Under the act of 1684, chapter 158, Laws, five justices were commissioned for two years,-Dr. Nicholas More, C. J., William Welch, William Wood, Robert Turner, and John Eckley. William Clarke was appointed in place of William Welch, who died before 10th 7th mo., 1684. He was styled "Justice in General," I C. R., 109-10, and appears to have, by virtue of his commission, presided over the county courts, sud, perhaps, succeeded William Welch, who was called the president
of the counties of Philielphia and New Casth . w. I C. R., 7. My ref- erences to the "Colonial Records" are to the first edition, printed in 1838. The second edition was isened in 1851-52.
1685,-Appointed 14th 7 mo., 1685 ; 1 C R., 102 and 105-8,-James Har- rison, C. J., James Claypoole, and Arthur Cooke. These judges, how- ever, declined to serve ; 1 Proud, 300, and the Council heard the appeals. 1686 .- Appointed 31st 1 mo., 1686; 1 C. R , 120, 139, and 141, - Arthur Cooke, C. J., William Clarke, and John Cann.
1686 .- Commissioned 20th 7 mo., 1686. Recominisstoned 2ad 2 mo., 1687; 1 C. R., 142, 143, and 152,-Arthur Cuoke, C. J., John Simcuck, and James Harrison.
1690 .- Appointed 2od 2 mo., 1690: 1 C. R., 283 (1st edition), and 1 C. R., 324 (2d edition)-Arthur Couke, C. J., William Clarke, and Joseph Growden.
1690 .- Under the act of 1690, chapter 197, five judges were appointed and commissioned on the 5th 7 mo., 1690; I C. R., 303,-Arthur Couke, C. J., Juha Simcock, Joseph Growden, l'eter Alrichs, and Thomas Wynne ; but on account of the "unwillingness of ye Judges to due their Dutys in Severall counties," this commission was afterward revoked, and the court was reorganized 21st 9 mo., 1690; 1 C. R., 304,-Jubn Sim- cock, C. J , William Clarke, Arthur Cooke, Griffith Jones, And Edward Binke, of New Castle. William Clarke, C. J., for the Lower Conoties, with the other four as his associates.
1693 .- The following judges were commissioned May 29, 1693, and in the same year a new law was passed, by which the court was to consist of one chief justice and four associates, and a new commission issued to the same justices Sept. 23, 1693. The fifth justice seems never to have been named ; 1 C. R., 352, 383, and 415,-Andrew Robeson, C. J., William Salway, John Cann, and Edward Blake. Anthony Morris was appointed Ang. 10, 1794, in the place of John Cann, deceased.
1698 .- On the 3rd of the 8th mo., 1698, the following justices held a session of the Province Court at Chester ; Martin's " Ilistory of Chester," 73,-Joseph Growden and Cornelius Empson.
1699 .- Oa the 18th 2 mo., 1699, a Provincial (Supreme) Court was held at Chester by Edward Shippen, Cornelius Empson, and William Biles. It ie, perhaps, on account of this record in the minutes of the courts of Chester County that I find Edward Shippen sometimes spoken of as one of our chief justices, but he never obtained that diguity that I can ascer- tain.
1701. From Mr. Staughton George's notes and the Records of Com- missions at Harrisburg. Commission dated 20th 6 mo., 1701. The com- mission directs the justices to hold a court twice a year at Philadelphia, on the 24th of the 7th mo. and on the 10th of the 2d mo. Two of them to go the circuit of the counties, of whom Guest or Clarke must always be one. In the "Logan Papers," 1 vol. 57, it is stated under date of the 26th of 7 mo., 1701, " Judge Guest is made our Chief Judge, upon which Judge Growden would not act as hie inferior. Caleb Pusey is in, und what is the wonder of us all, Thomas Masters hns, without taking his degree of a Justice, leaped at once to be one of the five Judges,"-John Guest, C. J., William Clarke, Joseph Growden (declined), Edward Ship- pen, Robert French (declined ?), Caleb Pusey, and Thomas Masters.
1702 .- " Logan Papers," 1 vol. 193-5, &c.,-John Guest, C. J., William Clarke, Edward Shippen, Thomas Masters, and Samnel Finney, asso- ciates.
1703 .- 2 C. R., 86; " Logan l'apers," 1 vol. 193-5,-William Clarke, C. J., Edward Shippen, Thomas Masters, and Samuel Finney. William Clarke was acting chief justice in place of Guest, who declined. Capt. Finney also declined.
1704,-Commissioned April 10, 1704; see Record of Commissionis, William Clarke, C. J., John Guest, Jasper Yeates, Samuel Finney, and William Trent, associates. Judge Clarke died about February, 1705.
1705 .- Martin's " History of Chester," p. 74,-John Guest, C. J., Joseph Growden, Jasper Yeates, Samuel Finney, and William Trant. Chief Justice Guest died 8th 7 mo., 1707.
1706,-2 C. R., 24%, appointed April 17, 1706,-Roger Mompessoa. C. J., Joseph Growden, Jasper Yentes, Samuel Finney, and William Trant, associates.
By order of the Queen's Council of Feb. 7, 1705-6, the several laws establishing the courts of this province having been repealed, and the Assembly not agreeing nn a bill, John Evans, the Lieutenant-Governor, by an ordinance nad proclamation of Fob. 22, 1706-7, established and restored the usual courts, etc. See " Manuscript Laws of the Province of Pennsylvanin, " Book A 4, pp. 3-7. The Supreme Court was to have only three justicee ; and the Supreme Court of the province became separated from that of the Lower Counties on the Delaware. A Supreme Court for the trial of negrues was created, Book A 4, p. 78, and a commission issued, A 4, pp. 66 and 181. The Supreme Court for the Lower Counties
1 The complete and satisfactory lists of persons appointed to admin- later the laws in the county of Philadelphia and the province of l'enn- sylvania are extracted, with the author's permission, from John Ilill Martin's "Bench and Bar of Philadelphia," published by Rees Welsh & Co., Philadelphia, 1883. Nu person in the city is more thoroughly ac- quainted with the history of the bench and bnr of Philadelphia, or more competent to discuss this important subject in an effective and comprehensive manner, than Mr. Martin, and with rare generosity he has given the writer permission to extract from his able work all that he desires to make this chapter complete.
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HISTORY OF PHILADELPHIA.
was established with three justices, A 4, p. 1>4. I am indebted for much valuable information respecting the Provincial Courts to Mr. Stangliten George, of Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. George is one of the editors of the work issued by the State in 1879, known as " The Duke of Yorke's Laws," etc. It brings the provincial acts down to 1700; but we have no printed acts of the Assembly between 1700 and 1714, since when the annual session laws have been printed, and several complete copies are known to exist. See my " Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of Pennsylvania," Legal Intelligencer, Oct. 6, 1882.
1707 .- Names of justices commissioned,-Joseph Growden, C. J., Nov. 20, 1707 ; Jasper Yeates, Dec. 2, 1707 ; Samuel Finney, April 8, 1708.
1711 .- Under the act of Feb. 28, 1710-11. Four justices were com- missioned March 16, 1711,-Joseph Growden, C. J., Samuel Finney, Rich- ard Hill, and Jonathan Dickinson.
1715 .- Under the Act of May 28, 1715, Book A 2, p. 109, commissions were issued on June 10, 1715, to Joseph Growden, C. J., William Trent, Jonathan Dickinson, and George Roche. Robert Assheton Was ap- pointed associate, June 12, 1716, in the place of Capt. George Roche, who was absent from the country ; 2 C. R., 613.
1717 .- Commissioned Feb. 15, 1717. Fromi record of commissions,- David Lloyd, C. J., Jasper Yeates, Richard Hill, and William Trent, as- sociates.
Commissioned Sept. 23, 1717. Record of commissions. A change of Governors accounts for two commissions being issued the same year,- David Lloyd, C.J., Jasper Yentes, Richard Hill, and Jonathan Dickinson.
1718 .- Commissioned Feb. 15, 1718 ; 3 C. R., 22, 29, 35, 67, 83, 104-5,- David Lloyd, C. J., Jasper Yeates, Richard ITill, and William Trent. The same justices were recommissioned March 26, 1720, and served until the passage of the act of May 22, 1712, which reduced the number of justices to three. Justice Yeates died in 1721 ; 3 C. R., 140.
1722 .- Commissioned June 2, 1722; see also 3 C. R., 150, 186, and 197. Three justices, act of May 22, 1722,-David Lloyd, C. J., Richard Hill, and Robert Assheton.
1724 .- " Votes of Assembly," 2 vol., 401 and 493,-Daavid Lloyd, C. J., Richard Hill, William Trent, and Robert Assheton. Assheton was ap- pointed in place of William Treot, who died Dec. 25, 1724, he beiog at his decease the chief justice of New Jersey.
1726 .- Commissioned Sept. 20, 1726. A new act was passed Aug. 27, 1727. Book A 2, p. 352, and the same justices were recommissioned Sept. 23, 1727. See also 3 C. R., 272 and 273,-David Lloyd, C. J., Richard Hill, and Jeremiah Langhorne, in the place of Robert Assheton, who declined. Ile being recorder of the city of Philadelphia, er officio jns- tice of the peace and the courts, clerk of the pence, and prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the same city and county, objections were made to his sitting in the Supreme Court as one of the justices. David Lloyd died 6th 2 mo., 1731, aged seventy-eight years, and was buried in Friends' graveyard at Chester. (See Martin's " Ilistory of Cbester," p. 82. Richard Hill was a merchnot sea-captain. He died Sept. 9, 1739, 80 says 1 Proud's "History of Pennsylvania," i. p. 473, in a note.
1731 .- Commissioned April 9, 1731, Record Commissions and 3 C. R., | 426, 439, and 640,-Isaac Norris, C. J., Jeremiah Langhorne, and Dr. Thomas Graeme. James Logan, C. J., was commissioned Ang. 20, 1731, in the place of Isaac Norris, who declined the office, and died June 3, 1735.
1733-Commissioned April 9, 1733. Recommissioned Dec. 28, 1733,- James Logan, C. J., Jeremiah Langhorne, and Thomas Graeme, associ- ates.
1739 .- Commissioned Aug. 13, 1739 ; 4 C. R., 348,-Jeremiah Langhorne, C. J., Thomas Graeme, und Thomas Griffitts. Chief Justice Langhorne died in 1743, and Mr. Justice Gritlitts resigned the same year.
1743 .- Commissioned April 5, 1743 ; 4 C. R., 640,-John Kinsey, C. J., Thomas Graeme, and William Till, Kinsey, C. J., died in 1750. Dr. Thomas Graeme died Sept. 14, 1772, nged about eighty-four years.
1750,-Commissioned Sept. 20, 1750,-William Allen, C. J., Lawrence Growden, and Chleb Cowplund. Mr. Justice Cowpland died at Chester, Pn., on the 12th of the 10 mo., 1757, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and was buried in Friends' graveyard at that place. For a sketch of the old judge and his family, seo Martin's " History of Chester," p. 272-3.
1758. Commissioned April 8, 1758,-William Allen, C. J., Lawrence Growden, and William Coleman. By an act passed Sept. 29, 1759 (888 " Big Peter Miller," p. 115), the justices were to hold office for life or during good behavior, And the above judges were recommissioned April 8, 1760, and ngain on March 20, 1761. Lawrence Growden wan recom- missioned in 1761, but not sworn into office : at least his oath is not on file with the others in the records at Harrisburg. Ho died in 1770, nged seventy-six.
1764 .- Commissioned March 21, 1764,-William Allen, C. J , William Coleman, and Alexander Stedman. Alexander Stedman, the president judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Phila- delphia, was commissioned in place of Colemno on March 21, 1764, and not before that date, as I find that he presided in the Orphans' Court on March 10, 1764. On the 20th of May. 1767, an act was passed increas- ing the number of judges of the Supreme Court to four, viz., a chief justice and three associates.
1767 .- Commissioned Sept. 14, 1767, under the act of May 20, 1767, the bench to consist of four judges, to be justices of the Supreme Court, and justices of the Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery ; 9 C. R., 393,-William Allen, C. J., William Coleman, John Lawrence, and Thomas Willing. In 1768, Mr. Justice Coleman retired from the bench, but the vacancy occasioned by his resignation was not filled until 1774.
1774 .- The following gentlemen were commissioned, April 29, 1774 (10 C. R., 173), justices of the Supreme Court of the province, and the same day a new commission was issued, assigning and appointing the same four gentlemen " justices of the Court of Oyer and Terminer end General Gaol Delivery for this province,"-Benjamin Chew, C. J., John Lawrence, Thomas Willing, and John Morton, of Chester County.
THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA FROM 1684 TO 1776.1
CHIEF JUSTICES.
Dr Nicbolas Moore, commissioned. 4 6mo., 1684
James Harrison,2 commissioned
14
7mo., 1685
Arthur Cooke, commissioned. 31
1mio., 1686
John Simcock, 3 commissioned. 9017 , 1690 21
Andrew Robeson, commissioned. May
29, 1693
John Guest, commissioned 20, 6mo , 1701
William Clarke,+ commissioned -, 1703
John Guest, commissioned.
-, 1705
Roger Mompessou, commissioned Nov.
20,1707
David Lloyd, commissioned.
Feb,
15, 1717
Isaac Norris,5 commissioned. April
3, 1731
James Logan, comorissioned. Aug.
20, 1731
Jeremiah Langhorne, commissioned. Aug.
13, 1739
Jolin Kinsey, commissioned April
5.1743
William Allen, commissioned Sept.
20,1750
Benjamin Chew, commissioned. April
9, 1774
ASSOCIATE JUSTICES.
William Welch, commissioned .. 4 6 mo., 1684
William Wood, commissioned. 4 6 mo., 1684
Robert Turner, commissioned. 4 6 m0., 16 4
Julin Eckley, commissioned 4 6 mo., 1684
William Clarke, commissioned. 10 7 mo., 1684
James Claypoole, commissioned. 14 7 mio., 1685
Arthur Cooke, commissioned
14 7 mo , 1685
John Cano, commissioned.
31 1 mo., 1686
John Simcock, commissioned.
20 7 010., 1686
James Harrison, commissioned.
.20 7 mo., 1686
Joseph Growden, commissioned
2 2 mo., 1690
Peter Alrichs, commissioned.
7 5 mo., 1690
Thomas Wynne, commissioned.
7 5 mo, 1690
Griffith Jones, commissioned.
21 9 mo , 1690
Edward Blake, commissioned
21 9 mo . 1690
William Salway, commissioned.
May 29, 1693
Anthony Morris,6 commissioned.
Ang. 10, 1694
Cornelius Empson," commissioned .. about 1698
Edward Shippen." commissioned.
abont 1699
William Biles,' commissioned about 1699
Robert French," commissioned.
.20 6 mio., 1701
Caleb Pusry, commissioned.
.20 6 mo., 1701
Thomas Masters, commissioned
.20 6 mo., 1701
Samuel Finney, commissioned
Sept. -. 1702
John Guest, commissioned ..
April 10, 1704
Jasper Yeates, commissioned
April 10, 1704
William Trent, commissioned.
April 10, 1704
Richard Hill, commissioned.
March 16, 1711
Jonathan Dickinson, commissioned. March 16, 1711
George Roche, commissioned June 10, 1715
Robert Assheton, commissioned. June 12. 1716
Jeremiah Langhorne, commissioned .Sept. 20, 1726
1 This list is made from the Record of Commissions at Harrisburg and other authentic sources, nud is believed to be absolutely correct in everything except some few dites of the jesning of commissions.
2 James Harrison declined, and died the 6th of the 8th mo., 1687, aged fifty-nine.
3 Simcock died 27th Ist mo., 1703.
+ Guest declined to serve for some reason, and Clarke was chief justice for two years.
5 Declined Ang. 20, 1731, and Logan commissioned.
6 See Martin's " History of Chester," pp. 73 and 74.
7 Mr. Shaw was recommended for the office, but Mr. French con- tinved.
April 17, 1706
Joseph Growden, commissioned.
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Dr. Thomas Graeme, commissioned .. ... .April 9, 1731
Thomas Griffitts, commissioned .. .Aug. 13, 1739
William Till, commissioned. April 5, 1743
Lawrence Growden, commissioned. .. Sept. 20, 1750
Caleb Cowpland, commissioned. .Sept. 20, 1750
8. 1758
Alexander Stedman, commissioned March 21, 1764
John Lawrence, commissioned .. Sept. 14, 1767
Thomas Willing, commissioned. .Sept. 14, 1767
John Morton,2 commissioned. .April 29, 1774
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
CHIEF JUSTICES.
Joseph Reed, declined . March 20, 1777
Thomas Mckean,3 commissioned .July
28, 1777
Edward Shippen, commissioned ... .Dec.
18, 1799
William Tilghman, commissioned Fels.
28,1806
John Bannister Gibson, commissioned May
18, 1827
Jeremiah S. Black, elected
Dec.
1,1851
Ellis Lewis,+ by rotation
Dec,
4, 1854
Walter H. Lowrie,5 by rotation.
Dec.
7,1863
James Thompson,6 by rotation. Dec.
2, 1867
John Meredith Read, by rotation. Dec.
2, 1872
Daniel Agnew, by rotation Dec.
1, 1873
George Sharswood, by rotation. Dec.
4, 1878
Ulysses Mercur, by rotation Dec.
1,1883
PUISNE JUSTICES.
William Augustus Atlee," commissioned. .Aug. 16, 1777
Joho Evans, 8 commissioned Aug. 16, 1777
George Bryan,9 commissioned. April 3, 1780
Jacob Rush, commissioned. Feb. 26, 1784
Edward Shippen, commissioned. Jan. 20, 1791
Jasper Yeates, commissioned. March 21, 1791
William Bradford, commissioned
Aug. 20, 1791
Thomas Smith, 10 commissioned. Jan. 31, 1794
Hugh llenry Brackenridge, commissioned ... Dec. 18, 1799
John Bannister Gibson, commissioned .June
27,1816
Thomas Duncan, commissioned .. March 14, 1817 Molton Cropper Rogers, commissioned ......... April 15, 1821 Charles Huston, commissioned.
April 17, 1826
Horace Binney , declined commission .. May 18, 1827
John Tod, 11 commissioned.
May
25, 1827
Frederick Smith, comovissioned Jan. 31, 1828
John Rose, comnussioned
April
16, 1830
John Kennedy, commissioned .. Nov.
29,1830 3,1834
Thomas Buroside, commi-sioned. .Jan.
2,1845
Richard Coulter, commissioned, Sept.
16, 1846
Thomas S. Bell, commissioned. Dec. 18, 1846
George Chambers, commissioned .. April 16, 1851
Jeremiah 8. Black, elected. Oct.
14, 1851
Ellis Lewis, elected. Oct.
14, 1851
John Bannister Gibson, elected. Oct.
14, 1851
Walter 11 Lowrie, elected Oct.
14, 1851
Richard Coulter, elected Oct.
14, 1851
George W. Woodward, 13 appointed. May
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