Steam powered machines take over processing of cotton in Lancaster city in the second half of the 19th century The factory buildings, the immigrant workers that lived near the mills, and the processes in the factories are described by the grandson of one of the workers.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 119, number 1 (2018), p. 40-47Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.119 n.1
The origins of the "Cabbage Hill" neighborhood of Lancaster,PA, is discussed in this journal article. This area was first settled in the early part of the 18th century and its first neighborhood, Bethelstown, was established in 1762. Bethelstown's role in the development of Cabbage Hill is discussed.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 1/2 (2019), p. 42-65Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.1/2
An 1852 lithograph of the city of Lancaster,PA, is lauded for it's exceptional clarity and exactness in it representation of the city. The author discusses some of the buildings shown and also points out the vast open area which would explode into the Cabbage Hill section of Lancaster.
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De pace Regis et regni : viz. a treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and the kingdome, as treasons, homicides, and felonies, menaces, assaults, batteries, ryots, routs, vnlawfull assemblies, forcible entries, forgeries, periuries, maintenance, deceit, extortion, oppression : and how many and what sorts of them there be, and by whom, and what meanes the said offences, and the offendors therein are to be restrained, repressed, or punished
collected out of the reports of the common laws of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painefull workes of the reuerend iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes by Ferdinando Pulton ...
Henricksen/Hendricks of New Netherland and Pennsylvania 1600's-1800's : Comprising the life and four generations of the family of Dutchman Albertus Hendricksen including the families of Baldwin, Bankson, Bezer, Boore, Bright, Childe, Coebourne, Delap, Evans, Galbraith, Gale, Hansson, Linvill, McGrail, McGrew, Mattson, Pettit, Postlewaite, Rambo, Sheiahel, Stille, Vannemmon and Worley. Pardridge/Jones family history volume 2
Archibald Steele and his descendants; a short historical narrative of Archibald Steele the first ... and his descendants, with genealogical tables showing the proper place in the family of every member of it whose name could be learned
Marietta Pike : The history of a Lancaster County Road- Part I : The Road to Anderson's ferry (1742) and the Lancaster-New Haven and Waterford Turnpike Road Company (1812)
"As pioneers pushed westward, new roads were cut through the landscape, so that by the late 1720s, homesteaders were looking to cross the Susquehanna and occupy terriotry on the western side of the river. The family of the Reverend James Anderson (1678-1740) in Donegal began ferrying people across the waters, and the steady stream of pioneers eager to move west set up the demand for a public road."
Campbell and Rogers genealogy : some of the ancestry of Charles Henry Campbell Jr., of Logansport, Indiana, with the ancestry of his wife, Margaret Rogers, and their descendants