Description
Lists of constables used by the Clerk of the Court as working papers to track such information as: assignments by sessions for "use of the Courts" (tipstaff/tipstave duty, etc.), but also court attendance, constables elected, oaths taken, Constable Returns received or due, and bonds given. All lists usually include year, name of constable, municipality (township or borough), and the court year or session in which the list was compiled or for which it was to be used. Some lists include other notations (deaths, etc.).
Note 1: As constables were elected in March, their term of office ran through the January Session of the following year and some lists, especially those in chart form and/or combining various types of uses, overlap two years. The year of the first entry is used to date the document.
Arrangement: Chronological by year and court term.
Index: None. Click "inventory" for list of holdings.
Related Records: Clerk of Courts Volumes 1. QUARTER SESSIONS DOCKETS (Constable lists for some years dating to 1790)
2. CONSTABLE BOND BOOKS 1872-1968
3. CONSTABLE REGISTRATION BOOK 1969-1994
Clerk of Courts Papers 4. ELECTIONS Municipal
5. CONSTABLE BONDS 1792…1908
6. CONSTABLE RETURNS 1789…1927