General Holdings List


Office Records Available
 Years Available, Etc.
Register of Wills/Clerk of the Orphans Court






 Birth and Death Records
 1852-1855, 1893-1906
Marriage Records 1852-1855, 1885-1930
Wills and Administrations 1714-1923
Orphans' Court Minors
& Decedents Papers		 1714-1923
Recorder of Deeds
 Deed Books 1688-1918
(A vol. 1 through Z-14 vol. 347)
Miscellaneous
Deed Books		 1821-1891 (nos. 1-23)
Mortgage Books 1774-1948
(A vol. 1 through Z-14 vol. 349)
Letters of Attorney 1774-1972 (A-1 through F-4)
Corporation Books 1841-1973 (nos. 1-17)
Clerk of Courts
 Early Court 1681-1710
Court of Quarter Sessions 1710-1900 (criminal court)
Road and Bridge Papers 1692-1995
Tavern License Petitions 1700-1923
Township, School and Election Districts 1720-1921
Prothonotary
 Court of Common Pleas 1714-1900 (civil court)
Naturalizations 1798-1989
Sheriff's Deed Books 1773-1904 (nos. 1-14)
Commissioners
 Taxes 1715-1939
Minutes 1740-1994
Board of Relief 1861-1865
Civil War Bounty Records 1864-1865
Militia Fines and Exonerations 1847-1863
Other Offices
 Coroners' Records
 1720-1957
Directors of the Poor 1798-1937
Veterans' Burial Record 1885-1979
Chester County War Aid Association 1917-1921
Pennsylvania Dept. of Health
Division of Vital Records
P.O. Box 1528
New Castle, PA
724-656-3100		 Birth & Death Records 1906-Present