4 The term of office was extended to three years in 1701, but reduced to one year again in 1706. The limit on length of service did not apply to coroners. See Wayne L. Bockelman, “Local Government in Colonial Pennsylvania,” in Bruce C. Daniels, ed., Town and Country: Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies (Middletown, Conn., 1978), 219-20.
5Ibid., 232.
6 For Peacemakers see Record of the Courts of Chester County, 34, 39;14.x.l683.
7 After 1755, Quakers began to be punished in Pennsylvania for refusing to pay war taxes. But this irony belongs to the history of a subsequent period.