America the beautiful : a family history : the London, Phillips, Scott, and Mitchell families and their related connections in colonial America (1600s-1700s) : with lines in England to Alfred the Great (846 A.D.) and William the Conqueror (1027 A.D.) and in France to King Hugh Capet (938 A.D.)
Baltimore : Arlington, VA (1100 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington 22201)
Publisher
Gateway Press ; Book orders to J.P. London,
Date of Publication
1997.
Physical Description
li, 1000 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes chapters on the Burnett, Oliver, Vaughn, Pettus, Hopkins, Comegys, Brown, Hynson, Smith, Tilden, Blay, Pearce, Wallis, Bodien, and Palmer families of Maryland and Virginia.
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
Emigrants in chains : a social history of forced emigration to the Americas of felons, destitute children, political and religious non-conformists, vagabonds, beggars and other undesirables, 1607-1776
Vol. 1 includes: Alphabetical index to places of interment of deceased Union soldiers in the various states and territories, as specified in Rolls of honor nos. I-XIII.
Nos. 26-27: "Reprinted with statement of the disposition of some of the bodies of deceased Union soldiers and prisoners of war whose remains have been removed to national cemeteries in the Southern and Western states."
The McPhersons of Illinois and related families : a genealogy of the descendants of Archibald MacPherson of Scotland, 1581-1989, including the genealogy of the Maxey Family of Wales and the lineage of Laura Estella (Maxey) McPherson through her mother Polly (Irion) Wright to the Poindexter family from the Isle of Jersey
German genealogical queries & research reports : pertaining to Baden-Württemberg and other Germanic regions : a 1990-1991 project of the Pennsylvania Chapter of Palatines to America
Report of the trial and conviction of John Haggerty, for the murder of Melchior Fordney, late of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania : In the Court of oyer & terminer, held at the city of Lancaster, for the county of Lancaster, at January term, A.D. 1847. Before the Hon. Ellis Lewis, president And Jacob Grosh and Emanuel Schaeffer ... associate justices of said court
These volumes are in the "library work room". They are not on the open shelves. However, there is an index on the open shelves. Its call number is 905.748 CHS Index. Patrons should consult the index first. If there is a volume that they want to see, the library attendant should pull the volume from the shelves in the "library work room".
