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1765 .- Commissioned January 17th,-Enoch Davis.
1767 .- John Allen, commissioned March 20th ; and Charles Jolly, Sept. 14, 1767.
1768 .- Charles Batho, commissioned June 13th.
1770 .- Commissioned June 4th,-Isaac Jones, Samuel Ashmead, Samuel Mifflin, Jacob Duche, Samuel Shoemaker, William Parr, Evan Thomas, Archibald McLean, William Dewees, Jacob Hall, Thomas Lawrence. John Bull, George Bryan, Frederick Antes, James Biddle, Alexander Edwards, John Allen, Charles Jolly, James Young, Charles Batho, John Gibson, Peter Chevalier, Peter Knight, and John Potts; and, on June 21st, James Humphreys, the notary public.
1771 .- John Moore, commissioned August 1st, and on August 20th, Matthew Clarkson, the notary public.
1772 .- Commissioned January 1st ; 10 C. R., 46,-Peter Miller, the notary public, to aid him in his office, etc.
1772 .- Commissioned April 27th,-Isaac Jones, Samuel Ashmead, | Samuel Mifflin, Jacob Duche, Samuel Shoemaker, William Parr, Archi- bald McLean, John Bull, George Bryan, Frederick Antes, James Biddle, Alexander Edwards, John Allen, James Young, John Gibson, John Potts, John Moore, Thomas Rutter, James Diemer, Samuel Potts, George Clymer, Lindsay Coats, Charles Bensel, and Samnel Irwin, and the fol- lowing notaries public, to assist then in their office, viz. : James Hum- phreys, Matthew Clarkson, Peter Miller, and John Ord ; and on May 4th, Samuel Powel and Ihenry Hill ; 10 C. R., 47.
1773 .- Justices of the Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas. From " Aitkin's Register," 1773, p. 30,-Isaac Jones, president ; Samuel Ash- mead, Samuel Mifflin, Jacob Duche, Sammel Sunemaker, William Parr, Archibald McClean, John Bull, George Bryan, Frederick Antes, James Biddle, Alexander Edwards, John Allen, James Young, John Gibson, John Potts, John Moore, Thomas Rutter, James Diemer, Samuel Potts, George Clymer, Samuel Irwin, Lindsay Coates, James Humphreys, Matthew Clarkson, Peter Miller, John Ord, Samuel Powell, and Henry Hill.
1774 .- Justices of the Common Pleas And Quarter Sessions, From " Aitkin's Remembrancer,"-Samuel Ashmesd, president : and the above justices, excepting Isaac Jones, and with Alexander Wilcocks, commis- sioned March 4th ; 10 C. R., 155.
1776,-By ordinance of the Convention of September 3d. See " Min- utes of the Convention," page 73,-Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, George Bryan, James Young, James Biddle, John Morris, Jr., Joseph Parker, John Bayard, Sharpe Delaney, John Cadwalader, Joseph Cow- perthwaite, Christopher Marshall (the elder), Francis Gurney, Robert Knox, Matthew Clarkson, William Coats, William Ball, Philip Boehm, Francie Casper IFassenclever, Thomas Cuthbert (the elder), Moses Bar- tram, Jacob Shreiner, Joseph Monlder, Jonathan Paschall, Benjamin Paschall, llenjamin Harbeson, Jacob Bright, Henry Hill, Sminel Ash- mead, Frederick Antes, Samuel Irwin, Alsxander Edwards, Seth Quee, Sammel Potts, Rowland Evans, Charles Beugel, And Peter Evans.
1777 .- Commissioned March 28th ; 11 C. R., 194,-James Young, John Ord, Joseph Redman, Sr., Isaac Howell, George Henry, Plunket Fleeson, Benjamin l'uschall, and Phillp Boehm.
1777 .- Commissioned June 6th ; 11 C. R., 215,-Samuel Ashmead, George Bryan, James Yonng, John Moore, John Ord, Jonathan Paschall, Joseph Redman, Sr., Peter Evans, George Henry, Plunket Fleeson, Isaac Howell, Benjamin Paschall, Seth Qnee, Andrew Knox, John Knowles, David
Todd, Philip Boehm, Zebulon Potts, and John Richards, and, on July 25th, William McMullin.
1778 .- July 6th, Jonathan Bayard Smith : October 21st, David Ken- nedy ; November 10th, Henry Naglee, Joseph Cowperthwaite; Decem- ber 16th, John Miller and Michael Crell.
1779 .- Commissioned January 5th,-William Ball, William Adcock, Samuel Morris, Jr., and, May 7th, William Rush.
1780 .- Commissioned June 7th,-John Howell ; 12 C. R., 379.
1783 .- Commissioned July 12th,-William Dean ; 13 ('. R., 625.
1784 -14 C. R., 54, etc .- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Samnel Wharton, Isaac Howell, John Knowles, William Masters, Manuel Eyre, John Richards, Henry Scheetz, Plunket Fleeson, John Gill, and .Jena- then Penrose.
1785 .- John Nice, James Loughead, Joseph Wharton, and Edward Shippen ; 14 C. R., 316, 344, 381.
1786 .- 14 C. R., 629, 660, 669, 672 ; 15 C. R., 17, 26,-Dr. Enoch Edwards, William Craig, William Pollard, Matthew Holgate, John Gill, Lewis Weiss, and William Rush.
1787 .- 15 C. R., 160, 192, 272,-February 9th, Alexander Tod ; April 7th, Matthew Irwin ; and, September 12th, Robert Mcknight.
1788 .- Jannary 10th, William Nichols; March 31st, Joseph Ferree; April 3d, Jacob Weaver; May 9th, Joseph Wharton and William Mas- ters to be justices of the Common Pleas; 15 C. R , 452; August 26th, William Coats; Angust 29th, William Craig ; September 22d, Clement Biddle; and November 25th, James Biddle.
I give below a list of the justices who held the County Courts of Philadelphia until Sept. 1, 1791, and, to avoid useless repetition of names, give only the name of each justice once, and the date of the year when first commissioned, although many were reappointed several times, and some served through a long series of years. For the term of service, see the Record of Commissions heretofore given. It appears that four justices were a quorum. See 2 C. R., p. 4. In the old Dockete of the Orphans' Court I noticed that there were always four justices present at every sitting of the court, never any less, seldom any more :
PRESIDING JUSTICES OF THE COUNTY COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS.
Nicholas More, in office .. .Jan.
2, 1682-83
William Welch, commissioned .29 3 mo., 1684
William Clarke, commissioned. .19 6 mo., 1684
James Claypoole, commissioned. 6 9 mo., 1685
Christopher Taylor,1 commissioned. 17 3 mo., 1686
William Clarke, commissioned. 2 8 mo., 1686
John Eckley, commissioned. 17 6 mo., 1687
William Markham, commissioned. 1011 mo., 1688
Thomas Lloyd,2 commissioned .. 2 11 mo., 16×9
William Markham, commissioned. .. 4 9 me., 1690
William Salway, commissioned.
May
6, 169}
Anthony Morris,ª commissioned
May 29, 1693
Edward Shippen, commissioned.
Feb. 12, 1697-98
John Guest, commissioned.
2 7 mo., 1701
Joseph Growden, commissioned
-11 mo., 170G
Richard Hill, commissioned.
.JuDe
4, 1715
James Logan,4 commissioned.
.Sept.
2, 1723
Isaac Norris,5 commissioned
.Sept. 21, 1726
Clement Plumsted, commissioned.
.June 11, 1734
Thomas Lawrence, 6 commissioned.
May
27,1745
Robert Strettell, commissioned .. . April 26, 1754
William Coleman, commissioned .Nov. 27, 1757
1 Died before Sept. 21, 1686.
2 Died 10th 7 mo., 1694, aged forty-five.
3 Salway was promoted to the Supreme Court on May 29, 1693, and Morris on Ang. 10, 1694, but the latter seems to have retained his posi- tion in the lower courts, as will be seen hereafter ; he died 23d 8 mio., 1721, aged sixty-seven.
4 " James Logan and his associates, justices of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia," Sept. 2, 1723. See printed pamphlet, entitled " A Charge to the Grand Jury," etc., printed 1723, by Andrew Bradford, with the address to the grand jnt ..
5 See Orphan ' Court Docket, No. 2. Isaac Norris last sat on the bench on April 22d, and on June 11, 1734, Clement Plumsted heads the list of justices.
6 Thomas Lawrence died April 25, 1754. On April 8, 1758, Coleman was promoted to the Supreme Court, and Alexander Stedman took his place then, for we find him presiding in the Orphans' Court on Dec. 9, 1758, nnd called " President of the Court of Common l'leas," Juns 2, 1759; 8 ('. R., 339. On March 21, 1764, Judge Stedman was advanced to the Supreme Court in place of Mr. Justice Coleman, who declined to be recommissioned, and William Plumsted, next in the commission of Feb 28, 17G1, to Stedman, no doubt took his place as president.
THE BENCH AND BAR.
1563
Alexander Stedman,1 commissioned April 8, 1758
Nathan Stanbury, commisaloned
101/ 1700
William Plumsted, comprissioned. March 21, 1764
John Jones, commissioned.
John Guest, commissioned ... 7 DI, 1701
Ssouel Ashmead, commissioned
16, 1767
Samuel Finney, commissioned
, mo., 1711
Iansc Jones, commissioned. .June 4, 1770
Edward Farmer, commissioned ..
. mo., 1701
Richard Ellis, commissioned.
mu , 1701
Robert French, commissioned ...
7 100 , 1701
SADIel Ashmead, commissioned.
June 6, 1777
George Roche, coDimissioned
4 7 m0 , 1,44 .... .
John Ord, commissioned .. March 1, 1779
6,1779
John Ord. commissioned.
Sept.
4,1780
Plunket Fleeson, commissioned
Nov.
18, 1780
Edward Shippen, commissioned Oct.
4. 1785
Dr. Enoch Edwarde, commissioned. Ang. 15, 1789
JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, QUARTER SES- SIONS OF THE PEACE, AND ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA FROM 1684 TO 1789.
Nicholas More, commissioned. Jan.
2, 1G82-83
Thomas FairD'un, commissioned. .JAN.
2. 1682-83
Laurence Cock, commissioned.
J&D.
2,1682-83
William Wel-h, commissioned.
29 3 mo., 1684
John Swift, commissioned.
June
4,1715
William Clayton, commissioned
19 G mo., 1684
Robert Jones, commissioned. Juno
4, 1715
Robert Turner, commissioned.
19 6 mo., 1684
Robert Assheton, commissioned. June
4, 1715
Francis Daniel Pastorins, commissioned.
.19 6 mo., 1684
Richard Anthony, commissioned. Sept.
1,1715
James Claypoole, commissioned.
6 9 mo., 1685
Anthony Palmer, commissioned. .Sept.
2. 1717
William Frampton, commissioned
6 9 DIO., 1685
Clement Pinmsted, commissioned .Sept.
2, 1717
Morris Morris, commissioned .Sept.
2, 1717
Joosthan Dickinson, commissioned Ang.
19, 1718
John Bevan, commissioned.
6 9 mo., 1685
Robert Jones (Merion), commissioned, Ang.
19, 1718
William Warden, Sr., commissioned
6 9 mo., 1685
Robert Jones (North Wales), commissioned .. Aug.
19, 1718
Jobb Moon, commissioned
6
9 mo., 1685
Samuel Perez, commissioned,
Aux.
19, 1718
Christopher Taylor, commissioned
17
3 mo., 1686
Richard Moore, commissioned.
Aug.
19, 1718
Barnabas Wilcocke, commissioned
20 7 mo., 1686
('harlee Read, commissioned.
Aug.
19, 1718
William Sonthebe, commissioned.
20 7 mo., 1686
William Fishbourne, commissioned. Dec.
5,1719
John Ecklev, commissioned.
18 3 mo., 1687
Thomas Ellis, commissioned
18
3 mo., 1687
Joshua Cart, commissioned.
18 3 DIO., 1687
John Shelton, commissioned
18
3 mo., 1687
William Markham, commissioned.
12
11tl:, 1688
Samuel Carpenter, commissioned
12
11th, 168%
Griffith Jones, commissioned.
12
11th, 1688
Edward Roberts, + commissioned. Feb.
May
12,1725
Robert Fisher, commissioned.
Sept.
1,1726
Francis Rawle, commissioned
12 11th, 1688
Richard Harrison, commissioned ..
Sept.
1,1726
Thomas Lloyd, commissioned.
2 11, 1689-90
Joseph Ashton, commissioned.
Sept.
1, 1726
Derick Jansen, commissioned Sept.
1,1726
Owen Evan (North Wales), commissioned. .. Sept.
1,1726
Samnel Hasell, commissioned March
6, 1732-33
Robert Ewer, commissioned.
May
6,1693
Andrew Bankson, commissioned.
May
6,1693
Humphrey Watorman, commissioned.
May
10,1693
Joshua Carpenter, commissioned.
.. July
18, 1693
Edward Shippen, commissioned.
Feb.
12, 1697-98
Charles Sober, commissioned
Feb.
12, 1697-98
John Farmer, commissioned.
Feb. 12, 1697-98
James Fox, commissioned.
Feb. 12, 1697-98
Evan Thomas, commissioned Dec.
Dec.
3, 1733
Henry l'astorius, commissioned
Nor.
22, 1738
James Hamilton, commissioned. Nov.
22. 1738
Willinm Till, commissioned. Nov.
22, 1738
Cadwalader Foulke, commissioned. Nuv.
22.
Abram Taylor, commissioned.
Nov.
22, 1738
Jonathan Robeson, commissioned Nuv.
22, 1738
Owen Evan ( Limerick), commissioned.
Nuv.
22, 17.38
David Humphreys, commissioned
Nov. 122
22, 1738
Edw'd Reece ( MlaustawDy), commissioned ..... Nov. Isaac Leech, commissioned.
. April
4. 1741
Benjamin Shoemaker, commissioned.
.April
4,1741
Joseph Paschall, commissioned
April
4, 1741
Joshua Maddox, conimissioned.
April
4. 1741
Robert Strettell, commissioned.
April
4, 1741
Derrick Keyser, commissioned.
April
4,1741
Griffith Llewellyn, commissioned.
MAY
7,1945
Septimus Robinson, commissioned
May
27,1745
Charles Willing, commissioned.
MAY
27,1745
Thomas Venables, commissioned. May
27,1745
Nicholas Ashton, commissioned May
27, 1745
Thomas Yorke, commissioned.
MAY
27,1745
Francie Parvin, commissioned ..
May 27. 1745
John Pott«, commissioned ...
27. 1745
Thomas Hopkinson, commisswned.
June 30, 1749
William Logan, commissioned.
inne 30,1749
Henjamin Frankhn, commissioned.
June
30,1749
Roland Evans, commissioned.
June 30, 1:49
4 Died 25th 11 mo., 1768, nged eighty-two.
5 Died 10th 7 mo., 1797, aged seventy-nin».
1 By the act of Sept. 29, 1759, the justices of the Quarter Sessions were not to be judges of the Common Pless or of the Orphans' Court ; there- fore ThoDias Yorke and his associates never sat in the Quarter Sessions; for this reason his name is omitted in this liet.
2 Septimus Robinson died Jan. 7, 1767.
3 Westcott, in his " History of Philadelphia," Sunday Dispatch of May 2, 1875, states, inter alia, that "Samuel Ashmead died in 1798. . . . Ile was president of the justices of the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions in 1774." See Aitkin's " Register," which gives him na president of the Com- mon Pleas and Quarter Sessions at that date. This is an error as to the Quarter Sessions, for an old docket, just discovered (1879), of that court, for 1773 to 1779, gives as president, or first justice, Isaac Jones, Sept. 6, 1773; Samuel Mifflin, Dec. 6, 1773 ; and places Mifflin'e Dame on & sepa- rate line by itself until June 4, 1776, after which there are no entries in the docket until the following, viz. : " At & General Quarter Sessions of the peace, held at Philadelphia for the county of Philadelphia, on the 1st day of September, Anno Domini, 1777 (being the first session of the peace held for the county aforesaid since the United Colonies of North America were by their Representatives in Congress assembled declared free and independent States, which was done at Philadelphia, on the 4th day of July, 1776, when the former Constitution and Gor- ernment of the Province of l'enDeylvania were abolished, and 600D afterward a new (to wit, the present) Constitution, Inwe, and police for the good government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania wore formed and established)." And we find in said docket, " Jumea Young, Esquire, president," Sept. 1, 1777; John Ord, Kequire, president, March 1, 1779; John Moore, Esquire, president, Sept. 6, 1779; John Ord, Esquire, president, Sept. 4, 1780.
-, 1692
Anthony Morris, commissioned
-, 1692
William Allen, commissioned.
March 3, 1732-33
Thomas Griffitte, commissioned,
March 6, 1732-33
George Fitzwater, coDIDiissioned.
March 5, 1732-33
Richard Martin, commissioned
March 5, 1732-33
Lassey Bore, commissioned.
March 5, 1732-33
John Pawlin, commissioned.
5,1732-33
Mordecai Lincoln, commissioned March
3, 1733
Ralph Assheton, commissioned.
22, 1738
Thomas Fletcher, commissioned Nov.
18, 1723
Samuel Richardson, commissioned
12
11th, 1688
Griffith Owen, commissioned.
11th, 1688
11th, 1688
Thomas Fenton, commissioned.
.Sept.
1, 1726
Jobb Holme, commissioned.
6 7 mo., 1690
Arthur Cooke, commissioned.
Samnel Jenings, commissioned.
4 9 mo., 1690
March 5, 1732-33
George Boone, commissioned ...
March 5, 1732-33
Thomas Lawrence, commissioned Feb.
18, 1723
Evan Owen, commissioned Felt,
18, 1723
John Cadwalader, commissioned. Feb.
18, 1723
Robert Fletcher, commissioned. Jnne
4, 1722
Rees Thomas, commissioned. Feb.
18, 1723
Richard Alborough, commissioned Feb.
18, 1723
Humphrey Murrey, commissioned.
6 9 mo., 1685
William Salway, commissioned.
6 9 DIO., 1685
6 9 mo., 1685
Andrew Hamilton, commissioned .. Aug.
19, 1718
Dr. Jolin GoodsonD, commissioned.
June
4,1715
Isaac Norris, commissioned.
June
4, 1715
James Logan, commissioned.
June
4,1715
Josiah Rolfe, commissioned.
June
4, 1715
William Clarke, commissioned.
19 6 mo., 1684
Joseph Fisher, commissioned June
4, 1715
Thomas Stevenson, commissioned.
11, 1706
Peter Bankson, commissioned
June
4, 1715
Jeseph Growden, commissioned.
11,1706
William Biles, commissioned.
11, 170G
Samuel Dark, commissioned.
11, 170G
Joseph Kirkbride, commissioned.
11, 1706
Willoughby Warder, commissioned ...
11, 1706
11, 1706
Jeremiah Langhorne, commissioned.
March 3, 1707
Richard Hill, commissioned.
Benjamin Vining, commissioned.
4 + 1110 , 17 14
John Moore, cominissioned .. Sept.
Andrew Bankson, Jr., commissioned ..
Joseph Pidgeon, commissluned
1 mu., 1704
Samuel Mifflin, 3 commissioned. Dec. 6, 1773
James Young, commissioned ..
March 28, 1777
Anthony Lee, commissioned .. MHV
27,1745
Edward Shippen, commissioned.
Mny
27,1745
Samuel Morris (White Marsh ).commissioned May Mav
27, 1745
James Delaplaine, commissioned. .May
27,1745
Willtam Coleman, comminsloned
.June 30, 1749
Joseph Turner, commissioned
27, 174.
Samuel Preston,5 commissioned
Jacob Hall, commissioned
Septimus Robinson,‘ commissioned .. ... Aug. 14, 1765
1564
HISTORY OF PHILADELPHIA.
John Smith,! conmarooned ...
.. June 30, 1749
Samuel Mifflin, commissioned ..
-, 1750
Jonas Spely, comAnssioned.
March 25, 1751
Benjamin Paschall,4 commissioned ... Sept.
Benjamin Harberson, commissioned .... Sept.
Jacob Bright, commissioned. Sept.
Seth Quee, comminissioned. .Sept.
3, 1776
Henry Antes, commissioned .. ..
.. May
20, 1752
Henry Pawling, commissioned.
.. May
20, 1752
March 28, 1777
Jolin Jones, commissioned ..
May
20, 1752
March 28, 1777
Andrew Knox, commissioned
.June
6, 1777
Charles Brockden, commissioned ..
Ang.
1,1752
John Knowles, commissioned.
June
6, 1777
Atwood Shute, commissioned
Nov.
27.1757
Zebulon Potts, commissioned
June
G, 1777
Jacob Dache, commissioned
Nov.
27, 1757
William McMullin, commissioned
July
20, 1777
Evan Thomas, commissioned
Nav.
27,1757
David Kennedy, comons-ioned.
Oct.
21, 1778
Archibald McLean, commissioned.
Nov.
27.1757
Joseph Cowperthwaite, commissioned.
Nov.
10, 1778
Enoch Davis, commissioned Nov.
27,1759
John Miller, commissioned.
Dec.
16, 1778
John Coplin, commissioned
.Nov.
27, 1757
George Evans, coninussioned.
Nov.
27. 1757
Isaac Ashitun, commissioned ...
Nov.
27, 1757
James Humphreys, commissioned.
Oct.
20,1759
John Hughes, commissioned.
Oct.
20,1759
Samuel Wharton, commissioned.
Oct.
20. 1759
John Potts, Ir , commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
William Coxe, commissioned. Feb.
28, 1761
William Masters, commissioned
Jnve
7,1784
Mannel Eyre, commissioned ..
.Jnne
7, 1784
John Gill, commissioned.
June
23, 1784
Henry Sheetz, commissioned.
June
24, 1784
Jonathan Penrose, commissioned.
Sept.
2, 1784
John Nice, commissioned.
Jan.
15, 1785
John Roberts ( Miller), commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
Henry Harrison, commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
James Coultas, commissioned
Feb.
28 1761
Jolin Trump, commissioned.
Frb.
28, 17GI
John Bull, commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
William Mayberry, commissioned.
Feb.
28,1761
Jacob Hall, commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
Lewis Weiss, commissioned.
May
20,1786
John Lawrence, commissioned.
Nuv.
19, 1764
William Humphreys, commissioned
Nov.
19, 1764
Frederick Antes, commissioned.
Nov.
19,1764
. Nov.
19, 1764
James Bridle, commissioned.
Nov.
19, 1764
Alexander Edwards, commissioned.
Nov.
19, 1764
John Allen, commissioned.
Sept.
14. 1767
Charles Batho, commissioned
.lone
13, 1768
Jamies Young, commissioned.
June
4,1770
John Gilson, commissioned.
June
4, 1770
Peter Chevalier, commissioned
Inne
4, 1770
John Muore, commissioned.
Ang.
1, 1771
Matthew Clarkson, commissioned.
Aug.
20,1771
Peter Miller, commissioned.
Jan.
1,1772
Thomas Rutter, commissioned.
April
27. 1772
Sammuel Potts, commissioned.
April
27,1772
George Clymer, commissioned April
27.1772
Lindsay Coats, commissioned, Ajuil
27,1772
Charles Brusel, commissioned.
April 27, 1772
Samuel Irwin, commissioned.
.April 27, 1772
Jolin Ord, commissioned.
April
27, 1772
Sammel Powel, commissioned.
May
4,1772
Henry Hill. commissioned
May
4, 1772
Alexander Wilcocks, commissioneil.
March
4, 1774
Benjamin Franklin, commissioned.
.Sept.
3,1776
Jonathan Dickinson, commissioned. Sept.
3,1776
Jubn Morris, Jr., commissioned Sept.
3, 1776
Joseph Parker, commissioned
Sept.
3,1776
John Bayard, commissioned .Sept.
3, 1776
Sharpe Delnhey, commissioned.
Sept.
3,177G
Jolin Cadwalader, commissioned.
Sept.
3,1776
Joseph Cowperthwaite, commissioned.
Sept.
3,1:76
Christopher Marshall. Sr., commissioned
3,177G
Francis Gm ney, commissioned.
Sept.
3,17TG
Robert Knox, commissioned
.Sept.
3,177G
William Coats, Commissioned.
Sept.
3,1776
William Ball, commissioned.
. Sept.
3, 1776
Philip Borkm, commissioned
.. Sept.
3, 1776
From is Casper Fassenclever, commissioned.Sept.
3,1776
Thomas Cuthbert, Sr . commissioned .. Sept.
3,1776
Moses Bartram, commissioned .. .Sept.
3,1776
Jacob Schreiner, commissioned .Sept.
3,1776
1 Son-in-law of James L igan.
2 Died Feb. 1, 1776, aged seventy-two.
3 The Peningtons of Philadelphia spell their names thus, and are de- ecendants of 1-aac Penington, who died in 1769, and who, with his wife, Is buried alongside of William Penn and his wife, in Jordan graveyard, Chalfont, Bucks, England. He said there was no need of n double n to ! spell Penington.
Joseph Moulder, commissioned. .. Sept. 3,1776
Jonathan Paschall, commissioned
.. Sept.
3,1776
Conrad Wei-er, commissioned ... March 25, 1751
William Plumsted, commissioned May 20, 1752
Thomas White, commissioned . MAY 20, 1752
John Mifflin, commissioned. May 201, 1752
Rowland Evana, commissioned.
Sept. 3, 1776
Joseph: Redman, Sr., commissioned .. March 28, 1777
Samnel Ashniead, commissioned ...
May
20, 1752
March 28, 1777
William Peters, commissioned
Nov.
27,1757
David Tudd, commissioned
June
6, 1777
Alexander Stedman, commissioned.
. Nov.
27,1757
Johu Richards, commissioned
June
6, 1777
Isaac James, commissioned
Nov.
27,1757
Jonathan Bayard Smith, commissioned
.July
6, 1778
John Roberts, commissioned
Nov.
27, 1757
Henry Naglee, commissioned.
Nov.
10, 1778
William Dewees, commissioned.
27,1757
Michael Croll, commissioned. Dec.
16, 1778
William Adcock. commissioned June
5,1779
Samuel Morrie, Jr., commissioned. June
6.1779
William Rush, commissioned. May
7, 1779
John lowell, commissioned. June 7, 1780
William Dean, commissioned.
12, 1783 Frederick Ang. Muhlenberg, commissioned .. March 19, 1784 July
Daniel Benezet, commissioneil. Feb.
28,1761
Edward Penington,3 commissioned
Fel).
28, 1761
Samuel Shoemaker, commissioned
Fel
28.1761
William Parr, comitnisstoned
Feb.
28, 1761
Joshua Howell, commissioned.
Feb.
28, 1761
James Longhend, commissioned
Feb.
3, 1785
Joseph Wharton, commissioned
March 18, 1785
Edward Shippen, commissioned.
March 18, 1785
William Pollard, commissioned
March 2, 1786
Dr. Enoch Edwards, commissioned.
.March 18, 1786
William Craig, commissioned.
March 18, 1786
Matthew Holgate, commissioned
.April 20, 1786
Thomas Lawrence, commissioned Nov.
19, 1764
Alexander Tod, commissioned.
Feb.
9,1787
Matthew Irwin, commissioned
.April 7, 1787
Robert Mck night, commissioned Sept. 12, 1787
William Nichols, commissioned
JAD.
10, 1788
Joseph Ferree, commissioned.
March 31, 1788
Jacob Weaver, commissioned
April
3, 1788
Clement Buldle, commissioned
Sept. 22, 1788
James Biddle, commissioned
.Nov.
25, 1788
The Constitution of 1790 abolished the county courts, to take effect Sept. 1, 1791.
PRESIDING JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Nicholas More, commissioned.
.Jan. 2, 1682-83
William Welch, commissioned. 29 3 mo , 1684
William Clarke, commissioned. .14 6 nio., 1684
James Claypoole, commissioned. 9 mo, 1685
Christopher Taylor, commissioned .. 17 3 mo., 1686
Willam Clarke, commissioned. 2 8 mo., 1686
John Eckley, commissioned .18 3 mo., 1687
William Markham, commissioned 12 11th, 1688
Thomas Lloyd, commissioned
2 11 mo , 1689
William Markham, 6 commissioned 4 9 100., 1690
William Salway, commissioned. May 5, 1693
Anthony Morris,6 commissioned May 29,1693
+ Died Aug. 31. 1785.
5 On the 4th of 9th mo., 1690, William Markham, Thomas Ellis, John Goodson, and Samuel Jenings were commissioned "Justices of the Quo- rum" for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, three to be a quorum.
6 ] have seen a writ signed by him on May 20, 1698, in the office of his descendant, P. Pemberton Morris, of the Philadelphia bar. Anthony Murris was probably the presiding justice of the Common Pleas from May 29, 1693, until Edward Shippen appears at the head of the commis- sion ; 1 C R., 498, but as the writ signed by Morris bears date more than three months afterward, it may be that Shippen presided only in the Quarter Sessions. The writ signed by Anthony Morris, befute referred to, is in the plain language of Friends, and is as follows:
"PHILADELPHIA, 68 [ THESE are by the King's authority in the Pro-
[SIAL. ] prietor's name to require thee to ATTACH Francia Jones. Merch't, by all his goods and chattels in thy Bailwick, so that hee may be and appear at the next Court to be held at Philadel- phia the Seventh day of the Fourth Month next, as well to answer the complaint of James Stanfield, Merch't, na well to stand to and abide the Judgment of the snid Court, and make returns hereof to suid Court. Given under my hand and Scal the 20th Day of the 3rd Month, 1698. " ANTHO. MORRIS.
" To the Sheriff of the County of Philadelphia, or his Lawful Deputy."
3, 1776
3,1776
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