. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. Corporation of then appointed coipoiation to continue in office till the 1st De-cember next ensuing, and from thence until there be a new choiceof other persons to succeed them, according as therein directed.^ The bailiff and the two eldest burgesses for the time being shallbe justices of the peace. The bailiff and the oldest burgesses, andthe recorder for the ti
. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. Corporation of then appointed coipoiation to continue in office till the 1st De-cember next ensuing, and from thence until there be a new choiceof other persons to succeed them, according as therein directed.^ The bailiff and the two eldest burgesses for the time being shallbe justices of the peace. The bailiff and the oldest burgesses, andthe recorder for the time being, shall hold and keep one court of re-cord., to be held every six weeks for hearing all civil causes accordingto the laws of the province. And also to hold and to ]\) a marketevery sixth day, in such places as the provincial charter doth direct.^[Recoided at Philadelphia, 13th 3d month, 1691.] The government of Germantown began the 6lh of 8mo. 1691,and terminated 25lh of 12tli mo. 1706-7, being fifteen years. The borough and court records of Germantown were ordered tothe Recoiders office in Philadelphia, by an act of the General As-•*enihly in 1769. From those records I have extracted the following. I X ennsylva7iia Inland.— Germantoum. 29 primitive and simple annals of that beginning era of sevtleraenland civilization, to wit: The Records of the Courts of Record held in the Corporation of Ger-mantown, from the 6ih day of 8th month, anno 1691, [the yearof their getting their charter from William Penn,] and thencefor-ward from time to time;—thus transcribed by order of a generalcourt held at the said Germantown, the 26th day of 10th month, inthe year 1696. Anno 1691. The 6th day of the 8th month the first court ofrecord was held at Germantown, in the public meeting house, [ofFriends,] before Francis Daniel Pastorius, bailiff, .Tacob Tellner, DirkIsaacs op den Graef, and Herman Isaacs op den Graef, the three eldestburgesses. Isaac Jacobs van Bebber, recorder; Pa
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