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Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original

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Author: Brackenridge, H. H.

Date of Publication: 1814.

Call Number: Book 264 1814

Responsibility: by Hugh Henry Brackenridge.

Author: Brackenridge, H. H.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: P. Byrne,

Date of Publication: 1814.

Physical Description: 579 pages ; 23 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 264 as assigned by Yeates.; Memorandum as to errata of this publication on back of page 579.

Subjects: Blackstone, William, - 1723-1780.; Law - Pennsylvania.; Law - Great Britain.; Law.; Great Britain.; Pennsylvania.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Smith, Charles,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 264 1814

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, animadversions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a series of discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on Lord Kaims' [sic] discourse on the original diversity of mankind. And an appendix

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Author: Smith, Samuel Stanhope,

Edition: The 2d ed., enl. and improved.

Date of Publication: 1810.

Call Number: 816 S659

Author: Smith, Samuel Stanhope,

Edition: The 2d ed., enl. and improved.

Place of Publication: New-Brunswick [N. J.]

Publisher: Published by J. Simpson and Co.; [etc., etc.] L. Deare, printer,

Date of Publication: 1810.

Physical Description: 411 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Strictures on Lord Kaims' [i. e. Kames'] discourse on the original diversity of mankind": p. [307]-349.; "Appendix. Of the natural bravery and fortitude of the American Indians": p. [351]-411.; First published in Philadelphia in 1787.; "Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White" (p. [247]-306) was published in London in 1799 under title: An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables.

Subjects: Kames, Henry Home, - Lord.; White, Charles, - 1728-1813.; Kames, Henry Home, - Lord, - 1696-1782.; Anthropology; Monogenism and polygenism.; Human skin color.; Indians.

Additional Corporate Author: American Philosophical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 816 S659

The lavv of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43 Eliz: chap. 4. is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute: also presidents, inquisitions, and decrees, with divers judgments, and resolutions, upon exceptions and appeals against decrees; and other proceedings upon the said statute. The second edition, much enlarged and amended. By John Herne

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Author: Herne, John,

Date of Publication: 1663.

Call Number: Book 456 1663

Alternate Title: Law of charitable uses

Author: Herne, John,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: printed by J. S[treater]. for Timothy Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop, within the Inner-Temple-Gate,

Date of Publication: 1663.

Physical Description: [6], 271, [9] p. ; 8vo.

Notes: Title page is A2.; Printer's name from Wing CD.; Includes table of contents.; With penultimate advertisement leaf.; Last leaf is blank.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates signature at top of title page below that of struck former owner.; Book number 456 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),; ESTC (RLIN),

Subjects: Charity laws and legislation - England - Early works to 1800.; Uses (Law) - England - Early works to 1800.; Charity laws and legislation.; Uses (Law); England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Title in script on spine (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 456 1663

The peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom from their origin to the present generation, collected from the public records

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Author: Douglas, Robert,

Edition: 2nd ed. /

Date of Publication: 1813.

Call Number: 929.7 D736 Oversize

Responsibility: by Sir Robert Douglas.

Author: Douglas, Robert,

Edition: 2nd ed. /

Place of Publication: Edinburgh

Publisher: Printed by G. Ramsay for Constable,

Date of Publication: 1813.

Physical Description: 2 v. : coats of arms ; 40 cm.

Notes: Includes index (v. 2).

Subjects: Nobility - Scotland.

Additional Author: Wood, John Philip,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 929.7 D736 Oversize

The American genealogist : being a catalogue of family histories, a bibliography of American genealogy or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date

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Edition: 4th ed. /

Date of Publication: 1897.

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1897

Edition: 4th ed. /

Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y

Publisher: J. Munsell's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Physical Description: 328 p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Spine title: Munsell's American genealogist.; Former editions were edited by William H. Whitmore in 1862, 1868, and 1875.

Subjects: United States - Genealogy - Bibliography.

Additional Author: Whitmore, William Henry,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 M969 1897

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communications from the American ministers at Ghent : shewing the progress and state of the negotiations for peace with Great Britain

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Corporate Author: United States. Dept. of State.

Date of Publication: 1814.

Call Number: 973.51 W317 1814

Corporate Author: United States. Dept. of State.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: A. & G. Way,

Date of Publication: 1814.

Physical Description: 74 p. ; 22 cm.

Series: [Document / 13th Congress, 3rd session, House of Representatives] ; no. 25

Notes: December 1, 1814. Read and referred to the committee on foreign relations.; "Presented by A. Slaymaker, Esq. Member of Congress from the Lancaster County district 1814" on inside front cover.; Also issued (1814) as: Document / 13th Congress, 3rd session, Senate. Document ; no. 25.; Shaw & Shoemaker

Subjects: United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain.; Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. President (1809-1817 : Madison)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 973.51 W317 1814

Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C., on the tenth of June, 1811, in the fifty-second year of her age : with extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers, and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776

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Author: Ramsay, Martha Laurens,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Call Number: 920.7 P544 1811

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Responsibility: by David Ramsay.

Author: Ramsay, Martha Laurens,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: James Maxwell, printer,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Physical Description: 308 p. ; 15 cm.

Notes: LCHS copy lacks title page.

Summary: "A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy." [from WorldCat.org]

Subjects: Ramsay, Martha Laurens, - 1759-1811.; Autobiography

Additional Author: Ramsay, David,; Laurens, Henry,; Maxwell, James,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 920.7 P544 1811

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Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American philosophical society, &c. interspersed with various notices of many distinguished men: with an appendix, containing sundry philosophical and other papers, most of which have not hitherto been published

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Author: Barton, William,

Date of Publication: 1813.

Call Number: 925 R613

Author: Barton, William,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E. Parker,

Date of Publication: 1813.

Physical Description: 614 p. fold. facsim., port. 26 cm.

Subjects: Rittenhouse, David, - 1732-1796.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 925 R613

The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751. With biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events

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Author: Spangler, Edward W.

Date of Publication: 1896.

Call Number: 929 S747

Responsibility: by Edward W. Spangler.

Author: Spangler, Edward W.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: [Printed by the York Daily Publishing Co.]

Date of Publication: 1896.

Physical Description: xii, 605 p. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims., geneal. tables, col. coat of arms. 26 cm.

Subjects: Spangler family.; York County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S747

American Indians : the who, what and whence of the Pre-Columbian dwellers, or the misnomered peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County

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Author: Urban, Theodore L.

Date of Publication: 1898

AMERICAN INDIANS. The Who, What and Whence of the Pre- Columbian Dwellers, or the Misno- mered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County. The treatment of a pre-historic sub- ject which seemingly is wrapped in such impenetrable mystery and veiled in the blackest night of obscurity may possibly be

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Responsibility: by Theodore L. Urban, Esq.

Author: Urban, Theodore L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1898

Physical Description: [89]-103 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 4

Summary: This late 19th century article asks the question, "Were the indians of Pennsylvania the descendants of the Lost tribe of Israel ?"

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Delaware Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 4 (1898), p. 89-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2

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