I'd think it better to check tax. Otherwise, you could check Prothonotary's Office for lawsuits & such but they really didn't have (to my knowledge) a "license" required to open a business back then unless it was a Tavern. But the Tax Man always got his due. I have a few links on the PAGenWeb site for the PA laws and what was taxed in which years. Judy On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:46 PM, DARWIN LOLA WEBER <[email protected]>wrote: > The Historical Society at Washington has a ledger book dated 1796 to 1798 > for an ancestor. > > This makes it appear that he had a type of "store? goods". > > If there were a license at that time, where would a record of this be in > the Washington County Court House? > > What department might I ask? > > Appreciate any help. > **** > Please visit http://www.chartiers.com/pages-new/pawashin.html for list > information, particularly the bottom of the page. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- -- WASHINGTON COUNTY PA WEBSITES::: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ Coordinator of the Washington County PAGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/