Description
Required record (1850 PA Law 569) of all accounts of assignees, trustees, sequestrators, and committees submitted to the courts regarding cases over unpaid debts or bankruptcy. Information includes court year/term/case #; names of parties (individual, as well as businesses, companies, banks, etc.) and fiduciaries; value of estate (often with itemized inventories); receipts, expenditures, and balances; dates of accounting report filed and action(s) by the court. Reports of auditors on the accounting reports mentioned above are also included for many cases.
Arrangement: Chronological by Court term, but some volumes include back log cases prior to the volumes establishment.
Index: Alphabetical groupings by surname of account with page reference.