Chapters: Frontier Background // The French Invasion and British Resistance // Virginia Forts // French Forts // First Pennsylvania Forts // Pennsylvania Troops // Provincial Forts in Northampton County // Provincial Forts in Berks and Lancaster Counties // Provincial Forts in Cumberland County // Fort Augusta and It's Dependencies // The British Take Over // Appendix: The Private Forts
Summary
"This book is not only about the Pa. frontier forts, but also about all the forts occupying Pa.'s soil; the French invasion and their forts and claims to Pa.; Virginia and the Ohio Company and the 3 forts they erected on Pa.'s soil; the British takeover of fort building and frontier protection of Pa.; as well as background on the Indians and their place in the regional history of the 1750s." [from the publisher]
The trials of William S. Smith and Samuel G. Ogden for misdemeanours had in the Circuit Court of the United States for the New-York district in July, 1806 : with a preliminary account of the proceedings of the same court against Messrs. Smith & Ogden in the preceding April term
Publisher description: In our society, the recognition of talent depends largely on idealized and entrenched perceptions of academic achievement and job performance. Thinking Styles bucks this trend by emphasizing the method of our thought rather than its content. Psychologist Robert Sternberg argues that ability often goes unappreciated and uncultivated not because of lack of talent, but because of conflicting styles of thinking and learning. Using a variety of examples that range from scientific studies to personal anecdotes, Sternberg presents a theory of thinking styles that aims to explain why aptitude tests, school grades, and classroom performance often fail to identify real ability. He believes that criteria for intelligence in both school and the workplace are unfortunately based on the ability to conform rather than learn. He takes the theory a step further by stating that 'achievement' can be a result of the compatibility of personal and institutional thinking styles, and 'failure' is too often the result of a conflict of thinking styles, rather than a lack of intelligence or aptitude. Sternberg bases his theory on hard scientific data, yet presents a work that remains highly accessible.
Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. : Volume XIV
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--Page 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--Page 478.
Report of a committee 21 pages printed by William Hamilton.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Full tooled leather binding with maroon title on spine.
Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty-third
Journal of the session which began Dec. 6, 1808 and concluded April 4, 1809.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 30 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--8, [2], 40 p., has separate t.p. with imprint: Lancaster Printed by Benjamin Grimler, 1809.
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--p. 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--p. 478.
Copy 1 "Jacob Weaver 1827" and Copy 2 inscribed "Amos Slaymaker" on cover.
Journal of the first session of the twelfth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster on Tuesday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-sixth
Appendix: Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth January to the thirtieth November, 1801, both days inclusive. Lancaster : Printed by Francis Bailey, 1801.--Report of the Register-General, of the state of the finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the year 1801. Lancaster : Printed by William & Robert Dickson, March, 1802.
