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The following persons, known to be attorneys learned in the law, appear on the record in the courts of Chester County at the dates given:
1726. - Ralph Assheton, John Kinsey, Peter Evans, Francis Sherrard, Joseph Growden, Jr.
1730. - Alexander Keith (admitted February 23d).
1734. - William Rawle.
1735. - John Ross (admitted August 27th), James Hamilton, John Robinson, Thomas Hopkinson.
1736. - Alexander Piercey (admitted December 1st), James Keating, Andrew Hamilton.
1738. - William Assheton (admitted November 28th).
1739. - William Peters.
1740. - John Webb.
1741. - Trench Francis, Edmund Acworth (February 23d), Neil Harris.
1742. - Robert Hartshorne, Richard Peters, John Mather, James Read (admitted September 1st).
1743. - John Moland, Townsend White.
1744. - David Edwards.
1745. - Benjamin Price.
1747. - John Lawrence.
1748. - Edward Shippen, Jr.
1749. - Joseph Galloway, John Evans.
The foregoing list is doubtless far from being perfect, but it is all that was found by Judge Futhey and Gilbert Cope, and in my researches I have not discovered any names omitted by them.
In the early days of the province it was the custom for students-at-law to make application for admission by petition, and the following one, on file at West Chester, presented by John Ross, was generally the form used:
"To the Worshipful, the Justices of the County Court of Common Pleas at Chester:
"The humble Petition of John Ross. Gent. showeth: -
"That Your Petitr. has served as an apprentice to an attorney at law in the province of Pennsylvania for the space of five years last past. Therefore Your petitr. prays to be admitted as an attorney of this Court.
"John Ross.
"Chester, Aug. 27th, 1735."
The following is a list of attorneys admitted previous to July 4, 1776:
| | Admitted. |
| David Finney | February, 1752. |
| Thomas Otway | May, 1753. |
| John Price | August, 1753. |
| William Morris, Jr. | August, 1753. |
| Benjamin Chew | November, 1754. |
| Samuel Johnson | February, 1755. |
| Thomas McKean | May, 1755. |
| David Henderson | August 1755. |
| William Whitebred | November,1755. |
| George Ross | November, 1756. |
| John Armond | November, 1756. |
| John Morris | August, 1760. |
| Nicholas WaIn | February, 1763. |
| James Tilghman | August, 1763. |
| Hugh Hughs | February, 1764. |
| John Currie | May, 1764. |
| Elisha Price | May, 1764. |
| Lindsay Coates | November,1764. |
| Andrew Allen | February, 1765. |
| Alexander Porter | May, 1765. |
| Nicholas Vandyke | May, 1765. |
| Alexander Wilcocks | May, 1765. |
| Joshua Yeates | August, 1765. |
| Stephen Porter | August, 1765. |
| Richard Peters, Jr. | August, 1765. |
| James Biddle | August, 1765. |
| James Allen | August, 1765. |
| Henry Elwes | August, 1765. |
| James Loyre | November 1765. |
| Isaac Hunt | August, 1766. |
| David Thomson | August, 1766. |
| James Vandyke | August, 1766. |
| William Hicks | November, 1767. |
| James Wilson | November, 1767. |
| Jacob Rush | February, 1769. |
| Miers Fisher | August, 1769. |
| Daniel Clymer | August, 1769. |
| John Ruley | August, 1769. |
| Stephen Watts | November, 1769. |
| Abel Evans | May, 1770. |
| James Lukens | August, 1770. |
| Thomas Good | August, 1770. |
| Joseph Read | August, 1771. |
| George Noarth | August, 1771. |
| Jacob Bankson | August, 1771. |
| Francis Johnson | August, 1771. |
| Asheton Humphreys | August, 1771. |
| Richard Tilghman | February, 1772. |
| John Lawrence | August, 1772. |
| Peter Zachary Lloyd | August. 1772. |
| Christian Hook | February, 1773. |
| William L. Blair | May, 1773. |
| Phineas Bond | May, 1773. |
| John Stedman | August, 1773. |
| John McPherson | August, 1773. |
| William Lewis | November, 1773. |
| Edward Tilghman | May, 1774. |
| Gunning Bedford | November, 1774. |
| Andrew Robson | February, 1775. |
| John Vannost | May, 1775. |
| William Prince Gibbs | February, 1776. |
| Collinson Read | May, 1776. |
Admitted after July 4, 1776:
| John Morris | August, 1777. |
| Andrew Robeson | August, 1777. |
| William Lewis | August, 1777. |
| William L. Blair | August, 1777. |
| John Kaley | August, 1777. |
| George Ross | August, 1778. |
| Jonathan D. Sergeant | August, 1778. |
| Jacob Rush | August, 1778. |
| Elisha Price | August, 1778. |
| Alexander Wilcocks | August, 1778. |
| Gunning Bedford | August, 1778. |
| John Pancost | August, 1778. |
| Edward Burd | February, 1779. |
| Francis Johnson | February, 1779. |
| Henry Osborne | May, 1779. |
| George Campbell | August, 1779. |
| Jacob Bankson | August, 1779. |
| Jared Ingersoll | November, 1779. |
| William Bradford, Jr. | November, 1779. |
| Moses Levy | November, 1780. |
| Nicholas Vandyke | February, 1791. |
| John Coxe | February, 1791. |
| William Moore Smith | August, 1781. |
| John Lawrence | August, 1781. |
| Nathaniel Potts | November 1781. |
| Joseph Reed | February, 1782. |
| John F. Mifflin | May, 1782. |
| Daniel Clymer | August, 1782. |
| John Vining | August, 1782. |
| John Wilkes Kitter | May, 1783. |
| Henry Hale Graham | November, 1783. |
| William Rawle | November, 1783. |
| Samuel Sitgrave | Feb. 24, 1784. |
| William Ewing | November, 1784. |
| Peter Zachary Lloyd | May, 1785. |
| Jacob R. Howell | May, 1785. |
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