Printed by and for Oli. Nelson, at Milton's Head in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
1741-1350 [i.e. 1750?]
Physical Description
3 volumes ; 32 cm
Notes
"Published with notes and references, and two tables to each volume; one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters: by his son William Peere Williams, of the Inner Temple, Esq."
An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map
Part 1 includes 62 psalms; part 2 includes 390 hymns plus 3 appendices containing 35, 32 and 14 hymns. Name of melody to be used with each hymn keyed with melody index; melody printed at beginning of hymn for which it is named.
Includes indexes.
From the Collections of the Heritage Center, P98.48.1
Bookplate of front of first flyleaf: within a single-line blue border is the typical German text done in black ink with upper case letters done in either blue or red, with yellow highlights and scrolled ornamentation reading in German: "Dieses Buch gehoret mir Samuel L. Esh Geschrieben den 29ten Nov. 1938"; inscribed at the bottom in tiny black-inked script: "Written By A. Colora, Blue Ball, Pa."
The Medical, Dental and Veterinary Collection contains records of doctors and a midwife who practiced in Lancaster County. Susanna Rohrer Müller's account book is a record of her work as a midwife from 1791 to 1815. The other volumes in this collection contain medical school notes, records of births, ephemera, and medicinal formulas.
English and Pennsylvania German dialect on opposite pages.
Summary
Includes selections from Poe, Goldsmith, Shakespeare, Riley, the Bible, Longfellow, and Coleridge, also "The Night Before Christmas,"in English with facing-page translations into the German dialect.
History of Lodge no. 43, F. & A.M., of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1785-1935 : with biographical sketches of charter members, past members, and present officers together with complete list of members of the lodge from its constitution
The Masonic homes of the right worshipful Grand Lodge of F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania at Elizabethtown , Lancaster County: Souvenir of the Masonic homes / compiled by Andrew H. Hershey
The R. Theodore Bixlers' Collection of Lancaster Authors.
Contents
Chapters: East of Mississippi --- Saint Louis to Albuquerque --- Albuquerque to Williams, Arizona --- Williams, Arizona to Los Angeles, California --- Santa Barbara --- San Francisco and the High Sierras --- The Great American Desert --- Yellowstone Park ---- Utah and Colorado --- Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois --- Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
Summary
In 1925 the author took a trip across the United States beginning in Columbia, PA, describing the flora along the way.
