Court records are at the Philadelphia Archives at 3101 Market St. There is a Web page for the Archives. Gene Stackhouse >From: larzemail <larzemail@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: larzemail@yahoo.com, philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: Philly-roots <PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Fwd: Court of Quarter Sessions 1861 >Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 05:29:43 -0800 (PST) > >Second attempt at sending this; for some reason this and other e-mails >aren't reaching the list -- sorry if you end up getting it twice. > >larzemail <larzemail@yahoo.com> wrote: I've been looking up some news >articles on an ancestor who was arrested for deserting during the Civil >War. He hadn't actually deserted, but rather had enlisted in a >Philadelphia regiment after having enlisted in a New York regiment that was >apparently representing itself as a PA regiment. This is a fascinating >case, and I'd like to learn more. I've a few dates for cases held in the >Court of Quarter Sessions during late September and early October 1861 and >would like to know if these records are accessible. If they are, how might >I go about viewing them? > >--------------------------------- >Be a PS3 game guru. >Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! >Games. > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Gene. The main page of the archives is not working, but a little further searching turned up this page: http://www.phila.gov/PHILS/Docs/Inventor/textonly/archser/S021.htm#21.2 This link above details the Court of Quarter Sessions' records and where to find them if anyone else is interested. Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> wrote: Court records are at the Philadelphia Archives at 3101 Market St. There is a Web page for the Archives. Gene Stackhouse >larzemail wrote: >I've a few dates for cases held in the >Court of Quarter Sessions during late September and early October 1861 and >would like to know if these records are accessible. If they are, how might >I go about viewing them? --------------------------------- We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list.