Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of BUCKS County, Pennsylvania, 1684- 1700

By: The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Pub. 1943, Reprinted 2019, 454 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-547-8. The court was held 4 times a year and heard such cases of assault, batteries, trespass, all breaches of the peace. They held authority of administration in intestate estates and orphans, granted license to build water grist mills, to taverns and ordinaries, and to build and maintain public ferries. The court also appointed Constables and Overseers of Roads and named t