Bail Records
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Superior and Inferior County Court Minutes, Georgia, 1790-1820
Links to Georgia's Virtual Vault, which hosts digital scans of every county's extant superior court and inferior court minutes.
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Sample Recognizances from Charleston County, South Carolina, 1823-1832
Criminal recognizance bonds. Although they post-date the Founding era by a decade or so, many bonds appear on printed forms that remained unchanged from the mid-eighteenth century.
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General Sessions Journals, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 1804-1811
Journals from the General Sessions county court, which had jurisdiction over criminal matters.
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Sample Peace Bonds from Camden District, South Carolina, 1786-1799
Bonds to keep the peace and remain of good behavior, occasionally with a condition to appear at court, from Camden, South Carolina.
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Sample Scire Facias Writs & Returns from Kershaw County, South Carolina, 1800-1811
Writs and returns offering excuses for forfeited criminal bail bonds.
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Statutes at Large for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1682-1801
A transcription of all legislation referencing "bail" in Pennsylvania from the colonial founding of the Commonwealth in 1682 to the year 1801.
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Prisoners for Trial Docket, Walnut St. Jail, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1790-1802
Docket of untried prisoners held at the Walnut Street Jail, with a ledger of prisoners' names, commitment date, ground for commitment, date of discharge (if any), and responsible magistrate.
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Vagrancy Docket, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1790-1815
Prisoners committed to the Walnut Street jail/prison for vagrancy, including runaway slaves, servants, and apprentices.
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Record Book of Ebenezer Ferguson, Justice of the Peace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1799-1800
A "day book" recording the daily decisions of Ebenezer Ferguson, Justice of the Peace, relating to bail and pretrial detention, peace bonds, and adjudication of petty offenses.
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Court of Oyer & Terminer Docket, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1794-1807
Records of Courts of Oyer & Terminer, each constituted by one Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice and several judges from the Court of Quarter Sessions, which heard capital and other serious cases.
