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Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

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Corporate Author: Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals,

Date of Publication: MDCCCI [1801]-1833.

Call Number: Bookk 266 1802; Book 267 1805; Book 265 1801

Alternate Title: Reports of cases argued and decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

Responsibility: by Daniel Call.

Corporate Author: Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals,

Place of Publication: Richmond

Publisher: Printed by Thomas Nicholson,

Date of Publication: MDCCCI [1801]-1833.

Physical Description: 6 v. ; 21-23 cm (8vo)

Notes: Vol. 1: [11], 4-588, [1], 16, [1] p.; Includes index.; Errata: v. 1, p. [10] in front.; Library has vols 1-3.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 265, 266, and 267 as assigned by Yeates.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,; Shaw, R. American bibliography,

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Virginia.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Virginia.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon sping label (Binding)

Additional Author: Call, Daniel,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Bookk 266 1802; Book 267 1805; Book 265 1801

Psalms and hymns adapted to public worship, and approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

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Date of Publication: 1830.

Call Number: 245.2 P544p 1830

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published for the General Assembly by Solomon Allen, no. 18 S. Third Street, and for sale by the booksellers generally.,

Date of Publication: 1830.

Physical Description: 596 p. ; 14 cm.

Notes: Without music.; Copyright July 30, 1830 by Ezra Stiles Ely.; "Stereotyped by L. Johnson."--Title page verso.; Includes indexes.; From the collections of the Heritage Center P00.35.1.; Pasted after flyleaf on ivory paper:" Eliza Jane/ Moorhead/ 1838/ E. Siener."; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Moorhead, Eliza Jane.; Kenyon, W. W.; Presbyterians; Presbyterians.; Hymns.; Hymnals.; Psalters - 1830.; Leather bindings (Binding); Gold tooled bindings (Binding); Personalized bindings (Binding); Bookplates (Provenance)

Additional Author: Allen, Solomon,; Johnson, Lawrence,; Ely, Ezra Stiles,

Additional Corporate Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 245.2 P544p 1830

The doctrine of the new birth, : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive. : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. Onesimus

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Author: Hewson, John,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

Author: Hewson, John,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by William F. Rackliff. Corner of George and Swanwick streets.,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Physical Description: 164 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Copyright 1839 by John Hewson.; Error in paging: p. 84 misnumbered 48.; Missing title page through page 2.; Yellow fever in Philadelphia page 156.; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Immortality.; Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Visions.; Authority; Yellow fever.; Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Half-cloth bindings (Binding) - 1839.; Letters.; Allegories.

Additional Author: Maylim, Joseph.; Rackliff, William F.,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

The life of Gouverneur Morris : with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers ; detailing events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the political history of the United States

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Author: Sparks, Jared,

Date of Publication: 1832.

Call Number: 923.2 M875s

Responsibility: by Jared Sparks.

Author: Sparks, Jared,

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: Gray & Bowen,

Date of Publication: 1832.

Physical Description: 3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Bruntjen and Bruntjen 14802.; Sabin 88990.; "Publications, by Gouverneur Morris" vol. I, p. [519-520]; "Index of letters" vol. III, p. [501]-506.; LCHS has vol. I and vol. II.

Subjects: Morris, Gouverneur, - 1752-1816.; United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.; France - Politics and government - 1789-1799.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.2 M875s

Free-masonry unmasked, or, Minutes of the trial of a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County : wherein Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. was plaintiff, and Jacob Lefever, defendant

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Author: Stevens, Thaddeus,

Date of Publication: 1835.

Call Number: 366.1 G394 1835

Author: Stevens, Thaddeus,

Place of Publication: Gettysburg, Pa

Publisher: R.W. Middleton, printer and publisher,

Date of Publication: 1835.

Physical Description: 93 p. ; 19 cm.

Notes: Title vignette.; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Lefever, Jacob, - defendant.; Freemasons - Pennsylvania - Trials, litigation, etc.; Freemasonry - Pennsylvania - Controversial literature.; Trials (Libel) - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Adams County)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 366.1 G394 1835

[Colonial records of Pennsylvania]

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Date of Publication: 1838-1853.

Call Number: 974.8 P415

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Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Printed by T. Fenn,

Date of Publication: 1838-1853.

Physical Description: 16 volumes illustrations (volumes 7) tables 22 cm

Notes: The first three volumes of the Colonial records are from the first edition. Their pagination does not correspond to the references from Dunn's "Index to the Colonial Records". Dunn's index refers to the second edition. Patrons can find the second editions of volumes 1-3 online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010447960. A link to this webpage is near the bottom of this library record. Look for the field "Electronic Location".; Collection of documents, supplemented by the companion series "Pennsylvania archives". (See preliminary reports of the committees, and of the editors, S. Hazard, and the Act providing for the publication, 1837, in Pennsylvania archives, v. 1, p. 1-23, especially p. 7 and 17-23, where the present collection is officially designated as the "Colonial records", a title not used in printing, the volumes having special titles only, as given in "Contents" below).; Errors in paging: nos. 158-167, 499 ommitted, v. 3; nos. 209-224 repeated, v. 16; numerous other errors.; V. 12, minutes of the Supreme executive council from May 21, 1779-July 12, 1781; v. 13, July 13, 1781-Dec. 31, 1783; v. 14, Jan. 1, 1784-Apr. 3, 1786; v. 15, July 4, 1786-Feb. 6, 1789; v. 16, Feb. 7, 1789-Dec. 20, 1790.

Contents: v. 1-10. Minutes of the Provincial council of Pennsylvania, from the organization to the termination of the proprietary government: v. 1, Mar. 10, 1683-Nov. 27, 1700; v. 2, Dec. 18, 1700-May 16, 1717; v. 3, May 31, 1717-Jan. 23, 1735-6: v. 4, Feb. 7, 1735-6-Oct. 15, 1745: v. 5, Dec. 17, 1745-Mar. 20, 1754: v. 6, Apr. 2, 1754-Jan. 29, 1756: v. 7, Jan. 29, 1756-Jan. 11, 1758: v. 8,Jan. 13, 1758-Oct. 4, 1762; v. 9, Oct. 15, 1762-Oct. 17, 1771; v. 10, Oct. 18, 1771-Sept. 27, 1775, with minutes of the Council of safety from June 30, 1775, to Nov. 12, 1776.--v. 11-16. Minutes of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, from its organization to the termination of the revolution: v. 11, Proceedings of Council of safety, Nov. 13, 1776-Mar. 17 [i.e. 13] 1777, Oct. 17-Dec. 4, 1777; memorandum from Dec. 31, 1776-Mar. 17, 1777; minutes of the Supreme executive council Mar. 4, 1777-May 20, 1779.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; History.; Sources.

Additional Author: Hazard, Samuel,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Provincial Council.; Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety.; Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 974.8 P415

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Archive

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

Reigart. Reports on the death of their aunt. 28 February 1813. Folder 7 Correspondence—Peter Wager to Adam Reigart, Jr., 1813-1815 Letter from Peter Wager to Adam Reigart. Wager says if Reigart could leave his father for a few days, he would appreciate if he could come to Philadelphia and be with Wager’s

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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The Gift : a Christmas and New Year's present for 1836

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18466

Date of Publication: [1835]

Call Number: 810 P544ch 1836

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Responsibility: edited by Miss Leslie.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E.L. Carey & A. Hart,

Date of Publication: [1835]

Physical Description: x, [2], [17]-292 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.

Notes: Publication date suggested by the Preface (p. [v]-vii), signed "Philadelphia, October, 1835."; The Gift was published annually in eight issues dated 1836 to 1845, with none for 1838 and 1841.; Faded inscription on second fly leaf.; Library has 1836 volume.; Faxon, F.W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books,; Thompson, R. Annuals,; BAL,; Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe,; Eliza Leslie was a writer of fiction and nonfiction works for juveniles and adults. Almost yearly, between 1836-1845, she edited an annual gift book called The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present, with contributions from Edgar Allan Poe , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other authors.

Subjects: American literature.; Gift books - Specimens.; Gift books - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - 19th century.

Additional Author: Leslie, Eliza,; Poe, Edgar Allan,; Irving, Washington,

Additional Corporate Author: Carey & Hart.; Sherman & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 810 P544ch 1836

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082179759&view=1up&seq=9

Proceedings of the manufacturers, mechanics, merchants, traders and others of the City and County of Philadelphia signers of the memorial to Congress asking for the return of the government deposites to the Bank of the United States : with a report of the delegates appointed to represent at Washington the views and wishes of the memorialists, and a statement of their interview with Andrew Jackson

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15592

Date of Publication: 1834.

Call Number: 815 P769 # 2

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1834.

Physical Description: 15 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Signed: John A. Brown, President.; Sabin 62089.; In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Brown, John A.; Bank of the United States (1816-1836); Banks and banking, Central - United States

Additional Author: Jackson, Andrew,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 2

The life and confession of Henry Smith, who was found guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Lancaster, Pa. in January, 1838 : of the murder of Benjamin Peart, and sentenced to be executed within the walls of the Lancaster County Jail, on the 11th of May 1838

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5981

Author: Smith, Henry,

Date of Publication: 1838.

Call Number: 347.072643 S649

Author: Smith, Henry,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. :b John K. Reed

Date of Publication: 1838.

Physical Description: 12 p. , 2cm.

Notes: Photocopy of the original.

Subjects: Smith, Henry, - 1809-1838.; Peart, Benjamin.; Trials (murder) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 347.072643 S649

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Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21041

Psalms and hymns adapted to public worship, and approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19042

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19440

The life of Gouverneur Morris : with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers ; detailing events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the political history of the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3752

Free-masonry unmasked, or, Minutes of the trial of a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County : wherein Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. was plaintiff, and Jacob Lefever, defendant

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17926

[Colonial records of Pennsylvania]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20686

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Archive

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The Gift : a Christmas and New Year's present for 1836

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18466

Websites

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15592

The life and confession of Henry Smith, who was found guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Lancaster, Pa. in January, 1838 : of the murder of Benjamin Peart, and sentenced to be executed within the walls of the Lancaster County Jail, on the 11th of May 1838

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5981