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A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution

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Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Date of Publication: 1888.

Call Number: 973.371 B872

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Responsibility: with the compliments of the Society of Old Brooklynites.

Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Place of Publication: Brooklyn, N.Y

Publisher: Eagle print.,

Date of Publication: 1888.

Physical Description: 61 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Jersey (Prison-ship); Great Britain. - Royal Navy - Prisons.; Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.); Prison hulks - New York (State) - New York.; Prisoners of war - United States.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.371 B872

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Governor Thomas Mifflin. Remarks of Dr. S.T. Davis ... on House bill no. 702, appropriating $1,000 for marking the grave of the distinguished scholar, orator, patriot and statesman, major, colonel and major-general in the revolutionary war, and eleven years chief executive of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Author: Davis, S. T.

Date of Publication: 1887.

Call Number: 923.2 M633d

Responsibility: House of representatives, May 11, 1887.

Author: Davis, S. T.

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Intelligencer print,

Date of Publication: 1887.

Physical Description: 8 p. 24 cm.

Series: History

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Mifflin, Thomas, - 1744-1800.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 M633d

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

2, Insert 6 Correspondence Letter. Vina [ ___ ], Johnson City, New York, to Maria Hobson, Van Etten, New York. Informs sister of John’s death from bronchial pneumonia. Includes date and location of funeral. 3 March 1931. Envelope. Addressed to Maria Hobson. Later annotation. Postmarked 3 March 1931

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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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

Adam Reigart, Jr. He was awakened by the town bell – the home of Edward Pennington was on fire. Because Aunt lives next door, he made all possible speed to the scene. The house was destroyed and the cause of the fire unknown. 21 September 1805. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart. Mary Wager is

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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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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

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Author: Pulton, Ferdinando,

Date of Publication: an. Dom. 1623.

Call Number: 762 1623

Responsibility: 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 ...

Author: Pulton, Ferdinando,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for the Companie of Stationers,

Date of Publication: an. Dom. 1623.

Physical Description: [6], 324 [i.e. 243], [17] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Printed by Adam Islip. Cf. STC.; Signatures: A-2Vâ¶ 2Xâ¸.; The first leaf is blank.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 762 as assigned by Yeates.; STC (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Criminal law - Great Britain.; Criminal law.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: 762 1623

Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : containing reports of the surveys and re-surveys of the boundary lines of the commonwealth, accompanied with maps of the same. Prepared in compliance with a resolution of the General Assembly, approved the 7th day of May, 1885

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs.

Date of Publication: 1887.

Call Number: 353.3 P415 1887

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Internal Affairs.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: E.K. Meyers,

Date of Publication: 1887.

Physical Description: xx, 650 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Field notes and astronomical observations of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. Made by them in their surveys of the boundary lines between the provinces of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. 1763-68. Transcribed from the original autograph manuscript of Mason and Dixon, now in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania": p. [59]-281.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - Boundaries.; Pennsylvania - Surveys.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 353.3 P415 1887

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, with a complete concordance ... 100,000 marginal references and readings. Apocrypha and Psalms in metre. Dr. William Smith's Standard Bible dictionary ... A comprehensive and critical description of the tabernacle and its sacred furniture ; together with an account of the priesthood and the worship and sacrifices of the Israelites. Compiled expressly for this edition of the Holy Bible, chiefly from the writings of Dr. William Smith, Dean Milman, Rev. John Kitto ... [et al.] ... A history of all the religious denominations of the world, and many other important and useful aids to the study of the Holy Scriptures ... with over 2500 ... illustrations, on steel, wood, and in colors

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Date of Publication: c. 1884.

Call Number: 220 S649 1884; 220 H586 1884

Place of Publication: Millersville, Pa

Publisher: B.R. Witmer,

Date of Publication: c. 1884.

Physical Description: [1690] pages : color frontispiece, illustrations (inc. portraits) plates (some color), map ; 32 x 24 cm

Notes: Pagination : 11, vi-viii, 1-16, 32, [8], 6, 6, 12, 48, 128, 13, 18, 640, 104, [8],16, [48], vi, 643-1029, 8,32, 102, 36 p.; New Testament has special t.p. :[Contrasted editions]. Both versions of the New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek ; being the version set forth A.D. 1611. Compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1881 and 1884. The old (King James)--version and the revised version arranged in parallel columns for convenience in reference and comparison ...; Smith-Sweigert Bible: Bible through the Apocrypha copyright 1872; New Testament copyright 1881 and 1882.; Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.; Hess family Bible.; Smith-Sweigert Bible.; Other materials of the Hess family in MG-394.; Hess Bible: Genealogical record of Jacob W. Hess and Susan H. Lawrence1861-1919 at end of Apocrypha..; Smith-Sweigert Bible: Genealogical record of Theodore F. Sweigart and Hettie A Smith, 1856-1916 at end of Apocrypha. "Presented to Hettie A. Smith by her Grandfather, Feb. 19th, 1884".; Hess Bible: Two unidentified photographs, one male, one female, removed to MG-399 Hess family bible.; Smith-Sweigart Bible: Four pages containing 16 family photographs, some identified, at end of Bible.; Hess Bible: Morocco binding with pictorial scenes with gold tooling and depressed cover back and front; edge guilding.; Smith-Sweigart Bible: Morocco binding with pictorial scenes with gold tooling and depressed cover back and front; edge guilding.

Subjects: Hess, Jacob W., - 1862- .; Lawrence, Susan H., - 1861 .; Sweigart, Theodore F., - 1856-1923.; Smith, Hettie A., - 1864- .; Smith family - Genealogy.; Sweigert family - Genealogy.; Hess family - Genealogy..; Concordances.; Dictionaries.

Additional Title: Bible.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Bible

Call Number: 220 S649 1884; 220 H586 1884

Hand-book of political information : containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States and Pennsylvania, election laws of the State of Pennsylvania, officers of the general and state governments

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Date of Publication: 1888.

Call Number: 352 H236

Responsibility: compiled by John H. Landis.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: New Era Printing House ,

Date of Publication: 1888.

Physical Description: 143 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Includes advertisements.

Subjects: Federal government - United States.; United States - Politics and government.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Additional Author: Landis, John H.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352 H236

Reminiscences of the early history of Dark Hollow, Slocum Hollow, Harrison, Lackawanna Iron Works, Scrantonia, and Scranton, Pa

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Author: Platt, J. C.

Date of Publication: 1889.

Call Number: Under Review

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Responsibility: read before the Lackawanna Institute of History and Science, November 9, 1886, by J.C. Platt.

Author: Platt, J. C.

Place of Publication: Scranton, Pa

Publisher: The Republican,

Date of Publication: 1889.

Physical Description: 79 p. : port. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company.; Scranton (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources

Call Number: Under Review

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A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution

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Hand-book of political information : containing the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States and Pennsylvania, election laws of the State of Pennsylvania, officers of the general and state governments

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Reminiscences of the early history of Dark Hollow, Slocum Hollow, Harrison, Lackawanna Iron Works, Scrantonia, and Scranton, Pa

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