This collection consists of a 250-page (unnumbered with many loose), leather-bound court docket recording litigant names, presiding judge, and costs associated with each case. Brief notes only occasionally indicate the nature of the case. The volume is organized by quarterly court sessions beginning with the May term 1813 and ending with the January term 1821. A very small portion of an index is extant, V-Z, 1796-1806.
In Historical Collections and Labor Archives, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#2005-0173H)
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Lycoming County was organized in 1795 from Northumberland County and at that time included extensive territory to the north and west. The court first met in 1795, commissioners elected, and Williamsport named county seat. The office of prothonotary recorded for the court of common pleas, the court of quarter sessions, and clerk of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery. The office was filled first by John Kidd then Ellis Walton. Walton died in 1813; the name of his successor is not included in county histories. Sheriffs during this period included Arthur McKissic (1813-1816), John Cummings (1816-1819), and David McMicken, (1819-1822). The county treasurer was James Wallis (1810-1814), Jeremiah Tallman (1814-1816), Charles Stewart (1816-1818), J. H. Huling (1818-1820), Apollos Woodward (1820-1822). The County Register and Recorder in this period was John Burrows (1813-1818) and Tunison Coryell (1818-1821).
