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Magistrate Records of Bedford County, PA

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Magistrate, Governor and Pennsylvania Assembly records of the county:

1771, Mar 11 - Minutes of the Provincial Council

At a Council held at Philadelphia, on Monday the 11th of March, 1771

Present: The Honourable John Penn, Esquire, Lieutenant Governer, &c
Richard Peters, James Tilghman, Benjamin Chew and Edward Shippen, Junior } Esquires.

A law having passed on Saturday last, for erecting a part of the County of Cumberland into a Seperate County, called Bedford County, The Governor acquainted the Board that he though it necessary to issue a Commission without delay, appointing Justices of the Peace, &c in the different Parts of the new County, and laid before the Board a List of Persons residing therein, who had been recommended to him as the best qualified to execute the Duties of the Magistracy, and after due Consideration, the following Persons were agreed on to be Justices of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and of the County Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Bedford, and Commission ordered to be made out accordingly, Viz:

John Frazer; William Proctor, Junr; Bernard Dougherty; John Hanna; Arthur St. Clair; William Lochry; William Crawford; John Willson [George Wilson]; James Milligan; Robert Chiggage; Thomas Gist; William McConnell; Dorsey Pentecost; George Woods; Alexander McKee

Dedimus Potestatem, directed to { John Frazer; Bernard Dougherty; Arthur S. Clair

1771, Mar 12 - Minutes of the Provincial Council

The Governor was pleased this day to appoint Arthur St. Clair, Esquire, to the several Offices following, in the County of Bedford, by three separate Commissions under the Great Seal of the Province, Vizt: Prothontory, or Principal Clerk of the County Court of Common Pleas, Clerk or Register of the Orphans' Court, and Recorder of Deeds.

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