Scope and content This collection includes ledgers (4 vols., 1841-97) dealing with cases handled, correspondence, articles of agreement, bonds, leases, bills, and other papers concerning the private law practice of Elias, George, and Harry Harding; indexed dockets (5 vols., 1848-84; 1 vol., 1896-1900, 1917-22, 1924-30) pertaining to various cases presided over mainly by Elias and George Harding as justices of the peace, the earliest volume containing a list of marriages performed (1848-72). Also, account...