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Travels in New France

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Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 971.018 P416

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Responsibility: by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.

Notes: Maps on lining papers.; "The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.

Summary: "A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]

Subjects: Indians of North America.; Canada - History - 1663-1713 (New France).; Canada - Description and travel.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,; Kent, Donald H.,; Woods, Emma Edith,; Casgrain, H. R.; J.-C. B.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Survey.; Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.; Pennsylvania Historical Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 971.018 P416

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A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd

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Author: Smith, Matthew.

Date of Publication: in the year M, DCC, LXIV. [1764]

Call Number: 974.802 S655

Responsibility: by Matthew Smith, James Gibson, and William Bradford.

Author: Smith, Matthew.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: Printed [by William Bradford],

Date of Publication: in the year M, DCC, LXIV. [1764]

Physical Description: (4) 18, p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: On the massacre of the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxton Boys" and the Indian policy of the Pennsylvania authorities.; "Signed on behalf of ourselves, and by appointment of a great number of the frontier inhabitants. Matthew Smith. James Gibson. February 13th, 1764"--Page 18.; Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Evans.; Signatures: A-B4 C2 (C2 blank).; Reproduction from Library of Congress by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions, date not specified.; Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,

Summary: These documents were created by representatives of the Paxton Boys as a written defence of their massacre of the Conestoga Indians. "A Declaration" was written before the Paxton Boys arrived in Germantown, and Matthew Smith and James Gibson completed the "Remonstrance" on February 13. Both documents were later published together as "A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania". This book is a facsimile of an early published copy of the texts.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Paxton Boys.; Indians of North America.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Additional Author: Gibson, James,; Bradford, William,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 S655

The diary of Harriet Amelia Arndt for 1865

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Author: Arndt, Harriet Amelia.

Date of Publication: 1946

there was thrilled by performances by Signor Blitz, magician, by fires, lectures, holiday events, by cheer- ing war news — the fall of Richmond, and the surrender of Lee's army ; and depressed by the news of the shooting and death of Abraham Lincoln. "Harriet Amelia Arndt was born in Manheim, Lancaster

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Responsibility: by Harriet Amelia Arndt.

Author: Arndt, Harriet Amelia.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1946

Physical Description: [73]-76 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 50, no. 3

Summary: Harriet Amelia Arndt was a resident of Manheim.

Subjects: Arndt, Harriet Amelia, - 1834- - Diaries.; Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Manheim (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Personal narratives.; Manheim (Pa.) - History - Personal narratives.; Diaries.

Additional Author: Kendig, John D.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 50, number 3 (1946), p. 73-76Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.50

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Guide to the published archives of Pennsylvania covering the 138 volumes of Colonial records and Pennsylvania archives, series I-IX

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 974.8003 P412

Responsibility: by Henry Howard Eddy, with an alphabetized finding list and two special indexes compiled by Martha L. Simonetti.

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: v, 101 p. 23 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 101.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Sources - Bibliography.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775 - Sources - Bibliography.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Eddy, Henry Howard,; Simonetti, Martha L.,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Provincial Council.; Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.

Additional Title: Pennsylvania archives

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8003 P412

Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812

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Author: Cranwell, John Philips,

Date of Publication: 1940

Call Number: 973.52 C891

Responsibility: [by] John Philips Cranwell [and] William Bowers Crane.

Author: Cranwell, John Philips,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Date of Publication: 1940

Physical Description: xiv, 15-427 p. plates, ports., fold. map, facsims. 25 cm.

Notes: "First edition."; LCHS copy "number 145 of a special limited and numbered edition which has been autographed by the authors."; Bibliography: p. 415-418.

Summary: A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. The author states that the activities of the Baltimore privateers "were so many and so varied that, taken as a whole, they represent a cross section of all privateering at the time."

Subjects: Privateering.; Shipping - Maryland - Baltimore.; United States - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations.; Baltimore (Md.) - History - War of 1812.

Additional Author: Crane, William Bowers,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.52 C891

Votes and proceedings of the House of Representatives of the province of Pennsylvania : met at Philadelphia, on the fourteenth of October, anno Domini, 1767, and continued by adjournments

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]

Call Number: Book 10 1768

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by William Goddard, at the new printing-office, in Market-Street.,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]

Physical Description: 137, [1] pages ; 39 cm (fol.)

Notes: Through Sept. 24, 1768.; Royal arms on title page.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Signature of Yeates at top of title page.; Book number 10 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; One-quarter leatherwith board covers; leather spine.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 10 1768

A partial bibliography of the archaeology of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Prepared by Pennsylvania historical survey (Frontier forts and trails survey) Federal works agency, Work projects administration

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Corporate Author: Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.

Date of Publication: 1941.

Call Number: 974.8011 P415p

Responsibility: Edited by Claude E. Schaeffer and Leo J. Roland.

Corporate Author: Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania Historical commission,

Date of Publication: 1941.

Physical Description: 3 p. Ã¸., 45 p. 27 cm.

Notes: Reproduced from type-written copy.; "Addenda" mounted on p. [3] of cover.

Subjects: Archaeology - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Antiquities - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Schaeffer, Claude E.,; Roland, Leo J.,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Survey.; Pennsylvania Historical Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 P415p

History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

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Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Responsibility: by Mary Augusta Huebener.

Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Place of Publication: Bethlehem, Pa

Publisher: Times Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: p. 199-310, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: "This volume is published in connection with the celebration of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Moravian Congregation at Lititz, Pennsylvania [...] The following pages have appeared in the Transaction of the Moravian Historical Society (Volume XIV, Parts 3 and 4)". -- Foreword.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Bicentennial history of the Lititz Moravian congregation / by Mary Augusta Huebener -- The Beck Family School / by Herbert Huebener Beck -- Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls, 1748-1948 / by W.N. Schwarze.

Subjects: Moravian Church - Pennsylvania - History.; Beck Family School for Boys.; Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls.; Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Lititz (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,; Beck, Herbert Huebener,; Schwarze, William Nathaniel,

Additional Corporate Author: Moravian Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, tertio : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1762, in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by adjournments to the eighth day of July, 1763

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXIII. [1763]

Call Number: Book 463 1863

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Uniform Title: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1763 July)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the market,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXIII. [1763]

Physical Description: pages [2], 279-286 ; 33 cm (fol.)

Notes: Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1760 (Evans 8705).; Signatures: [4B]2 4C2 4D1.; Title vignette: province seal.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 463 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; Miller, C.W. Franklin,

Subjects: CHR 1763.; Three-quarters blind-tooled suede (Bindingh)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 463 1863

Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, tertio : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1762, in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by adjournments to the thirtieth day of September, 1763

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXIII. [1763]

Call Number: Book 463 1763a

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Uniform Title: Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1763 Sept.)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the market,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXIII. [1763]

Physical Description: pages [2], 289-296 ; 30 cm (fol.)

Notes: Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1760 (Evans 8705).; Signatures: [4E]2 4F2 4G1.; Title vignette: province seal.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book 463 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; Miller, C.W. Franklin,

Subjects: CHR 1763.; Three-quarters blind-tooled suede (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 463 1763a

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