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Title

Register or notarial records /

Authors

• Lehman, Christian
• Lehman, Benjamin, 1760-1839

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1713
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963989553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913899433
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cz3271n

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English and German, with one section in Dutch and English (p. 277-286) and an additional title page as well as some formulaic legal terms in Latin

Origin

Date

1771-1774, 1785-1823

Place

Philadelphia, Germantown

Summary

Printed forms for assigning power of attorney, alternating between English and German, completed by the Germantown notary Christian Lehman, followed by a briefer section of fair copies of documents by Lehman, also in both German and English, all between 1772 and 1774 (the year of his death). Many of the fair copies also concern power of attorney, but others record the granting or transferral of military commissions and transactions in Dutch originally recorded in Suriname by the notary Daniel van den Brink. Most of the documents are for the city or county of Philadelphia. The last third of the volume was used to record purchases of lumber between 1785 and 1823 by Benjamin Lehman (1760-1839), Christian Lehman's son, who was a lumber merchant and cabinet maker in Germantown, and his son Benjamin, who became a partner in the business in 1816 (p. 361). A few loose notes of calculations of lumber totals over multiple years and work hours, originally pinned into the volume, are now laid in their openings (p. 356-357, 392-393, 422-423).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from English title page (p. iii); alternate title Protocollum from Latin title page (p. i)
   
• 1. p.1-252: Register [printed forms] / Christian Lehman -- 2. p.253-286: Notarial register continued [fair copies] / Christian Lehman -- 3. p.288-290: [Bills for lumber customers, 1785] / Benjamin Lehman -- 4. p.291-403: [Records of lumber purchases, 1794-1823] / Benjamin Lehman -- 5. p.421-426: [Records of time worked?] / Benjamin Lehman.
   

Extent

215 leaves : 320 x 200 mm bound to 325 x 220 mm +

Foliation

Paper, 215 leaves; [i-iv], 1-109, [110-199 (blank forms)], 200-225, [226-251 (blank forms)], 252-286, [287-403, 404-420 (blank), 421-426], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary reversed calf (Lawbook Exchange); initials BL (for Benjamin Lehman) in ink on upper cover; other words in ink on upper cover and spine, now badly oxidized and illegible.

Script

Written in cursive script and cursive German script by Christian Lehman (p. 1-286) and in cursive script by Benjamin Lehman, Benjamin Lehman, Jr., and perhaps others (p. 288-426).

Provenance

• Sold by the Lawbook Exchange (Clark, N.J.), 2015.
   
• Sold at auction at Doyle New York, 24 November 2014, lot 420.
   

Subjects topical

• Notaries--Pennsylvania
• Lumber trade--Pennsylvania
• Lumber trade
• Notaries
• Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History--18th century--Sources
• Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History--19th century--Sources
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century--Sources
• Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century--Sources

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, American
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, German
• Manuscripts, American
• Account books

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• German
• Dutch
• United States
• Paper
• Legal
• Accounts

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