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A sketch of the life and character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D. D. near sixty years pastor of the churches of Buffalo and Alamance. Including two of his sermons; some account of the Regulation, together with the revolutionary ... incidents in which he was concerned; and a very brief notice of the ecclesiastical and moral condition of North-Carolina while in its colonial state

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo963
Author
Caruthers, E. W.
Date of Publication
1842.
Call Number
922.3 C147c
Responsibility
by the Rev. E. W. Caruthers, A. M.
Author
Caruthers, E. W.
Place of Publication
Greensborough, N.C
Publisher
Printed by Swaim and Sherwood,
Date of Publication
1842.
Physical Description
vi, [7]-302 p. 1 β. 23 cm.
Subjects
Caldwell, David, - 1725-1824.
North Carolina - History - Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
922.3 C147c
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Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18954
Author
Captain of volunteers.
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
979.4403 C254
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Responsibility
by a Captain of volunteers.
Author
Captain of volunteers.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
H. Packer & Co. ...,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
[2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.
Notes
This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
California - Description and travel.
California - History - 1846-1850.
Mexico, North - Description and travel.
California - Annexation to the United States.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
979.4403 C254
Websites
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The farmer's companion; or, Essays on the principles and practice of American husbandry. : With the address, prepared to be delivered before the agricultural and horticultural societies of New Haven County, Connecticut, and an appendix, containing tables and other matter useful to the farmer

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Author
Buel, Jesse,
Edition
Second edition.
Date of Publication
1840.
Call Number
630 B928
Responsibility
By the late Honorable Jesse Buel, conductor of 'The cultivator.'
Author
Buel, Jesse,
Edition
Second edition.
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb.,
Date of Publication
1840.
Physical Description
3326 + (last pages missing) p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Copyright 1839 by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb.
"Education Press."--verso of title page.
Last page blank.
"The school advertiser no. II. August, 1839."--16, 138 [i.e., 8] p. at end. Contains a prospectus and sample pages for "The School Library," published by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb.
Checklist Amer. imprints
Subjects
Agriculture.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
630 B928
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The experienced botanist or Indian physician, being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants--their properties, &c. and the method of preparing and using them. 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4382
Author
Cooper, J. W.
Date of Publication
1840.
Call Number
580 C777
Responsibility
By J. W. Cooper.
Author
Cooper, J. W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed for the author and publishers. J. Bear, printer,
Date of Publication
1840.
Physical Description
xxi, [23]-303 p. 16 cm.
Subjects
Botany, Medical
Medicine, Popular.
Plants, Medicinal
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
580 C777
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised : with Canne's marginal notes and references. To which are added, an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins, & c. /ss²c stereotyped by E. White, New York

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19886
Date of Publication
1840.
Call Number
220 S559 1840
Alternate Title
Holy bible.
New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Kimber and Sharpless,
Date of Publication
1840.
Physical Description
4, 6, 5-570, 112, 2 leaves, 573-770, 56. : ss²b plates, maps ; ss²c 29 cm.
Notes
At head of title: Kimber and Sharpless Ì₃stereotype edition.
Plates (in part, including half-title for each Testament) are "engravings by Charles Heath from the designs of Richard Westall."
"Apocrypha" (112 p.) inserted after Old Testament.
Two blank pages for "Family record" at end of Apocrypha.
Viewing of bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
From the Collection of the Heritage Center Collection, P47.4.2.
Shoff family bible.
Geneaolgy of Frederick Shoff, Senior, famiy (1774-1843) and Isabella Shoff (1790-1851)
Other genealogical materal in Heritage Center file.
Bound with : A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments / John Brown. Philadelphia : Kimber and Sharpless, [1835?].
Full leather binding with maroon and gilt spine title housed in a walnut Bible box with slide closure resembling a Bible.
Subjects
Shoff, Frederick, - Sr., - 1774-1843.
Shott, Isabella, - 1790-1851.
Additional Author
Canne, John,
Westall, Richard,
Heath, Charles,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 S559 1840
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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised : with Canne's marginal notes and references, to which are added an index, an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations, table of scripture weights, measures, and coins, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19700
Date of Publication
1846.
Call Number
220 W742 1846
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : New York
Publisher
John B. Perry ; Nafis and Cornish,
Date of Publication
1846.
Physical Description
829, cxlvii, xxi, 56, 19 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Notes
Includes Apocrypha; A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New testaments, by John Brown; and the Psalms of David, in metre.
Includes index.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
Willson family bible.
Willson and Rettew family genealogy 1779-1929 on three pages preceding New Testament.
Subjects
Willson, George, - 1799-1879.
Rettew, Mary Ann, - 1817-1886.
Willson family - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Brown, John,
Additional Title
Bible.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 W742 1846
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The army and navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9157
Author
Neff, Jacob K.
Date of Publication
1849.
Call Number
090 L244hi 1849
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Author
Neff, Jacob K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
G. Hills,
Date of Publication
1849.
Physical Description
684 p. illus. 22 cm.
Subjects
Military art and science.
United States - History, Military - To 1900.
United States - History, Naval - To 1900.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 L244hi 1849
Websites
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Report of the Committee on Vice and Immorality, relative to the repeal of the law of Seventeen Hundred and Five, which prohibits persons from tippling on the sabbath

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16101
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee on Vice and Immorality.
Date of Publication
1844.
Call Number
815 P769 # 28
Responsibility
Mr. Craig, chairman.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate. Committee on Vice and Immorality.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Isaac G. M'Kinley, State printer,
Date of Publication
1844.
Physical Description
5 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
In: Political Speeches.
Subjects
Liquor laws - Pennsylvania.
Place
Harrisburg M'Kinley 1844.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
815 P769 # 28
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Highwaymen and pirates' own book : containing historical narratives of the most celebrated robbers, pirates, &c., together with an account of the loss of the ship William Brown : and a full description of the mutiny on board the United States' brig Somers, with the execution of Spencer, Cromwell and Small

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16433
Author
Brooke, Henry K.
Date of Publication
1845.
Call Number
910.45 P544 1845
Responsibility
Carefully comp. for the publisher, by Henry K. Brooke.
Author
Brooke, Henry K.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, New York
Publisher
J.B. Perry ; Nafis & Cornish,
Date of Publication
1845.
Physical Description
5-72, 5-82, 3-70 p. illus., plates. 16 cm.
Notes
Part II sold separaely.
Contents
[pt. I] Life and adventures of ... Joseph Thompson Hare. Awful account of the ... pirate, Alexander Tardy.--[pt. II] Annals of the revolution.--[pt. III] James Moran, executed at Philadelphia ... May 19, 1837. The mutiny on board the brig Braganza. The loss of the ship William Brown. A full account of the mutiny on board the United States brig Somers.
Subjects
Hare, Joseph Thompson.
Tardy, Alexander.
Moran, James.
Braganza (Brig)
William Brown (Ship)
Somers (Brig : 1842-1846)
Pirates.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
910.45 P544 1845
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Reply of John Davis, of Massachusetts, to Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania on the reduction of wages and of the value of property : delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 23, 1840. Together with extracts from the speeches of Messrs. Buchanan, Walker, Benton and Calhoun

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16473
Author
Davis, John,
Date of Publication
1840.
Call Number
923.173 B918da
Author
Davis, John,
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Printed at the Madisonian Office,
Date of Publication
1840.
Physical Description
31 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Currency question - United States - Speeches in Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918da
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