Box 2

Includes accounts relating to improvements on Burd’s home, purchase of fabric, paper and art supplies, payment (“subsistence”) to workers; painting coaches

Promissory notes to and from Edward Burd for legal services including from: William Bradford, Jr. 1783; Charles Willson Peale, 1794

Including legal documents, several pertaining to moneys due to or from Edward Burd as Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pa. or attorney, resulting from legal actions or decisions, such as penal bills, land surveys, prisoners, criminal acts; Official documents in this file offer a view of the kinds of cases that came before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Includes: testimonies (including by Thomas Mifflin, 1783); receipt of deed for a house on Market Street signed by Thomas Paine, 1795); Burd’s list of legal precedents in the prosecution of a case (1803); lists of the types and numbers of cases appearing before the court (n.d.); a list of cases (“executions”) in Schuylkill Co. (Pa., n.d.); and legal diary summarizing cases, probably kept by Edward Burd, ca. 1819-1825

Includes: testimonies (including by Thomas Mifflin, 1783); receipt of deed for a house on Market Street signed by Thomas Paine, 1795); Burd’s list of legal precedents in the prosecution of a case (1803); lists of the types and numbers of cases appearing before the court (n.d.); a list of cases (“executions”) in Schuylkill Co. (Pa., n.d.); and legal diary summarizing cases, probably kept by Edward Burd, ca. 1819-1825

Mainly consists of accounts of payment between indiviudals, especially Edward Burd, and the courts of Pennsylvania. Included here is the Dec. 28, 1778 list of payment to witnesses in the trial of John Roberts and Abraham Carlisle

Continuing in the same vein as the previous folder, these documents are primarily accounts recorded by Edward Burd, during his time as Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for legal transactions between individuals and the courts of Pennsylvania.