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History of Lancaster county. To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania. Comp. from authentic sources

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Date of Publication: 1844.

Call Number: 090 L244hi 1844

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Responsibility: By I. Daniel Rupp ...

Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Penn

Publisher: G. Hills,

Date of Publication: 1844.

Physical Description: 531 p. front., plates, fold. tab. 21 cm.

Notes: Geology, natural history, etc.: p. 465-511.; Copy 5: bound in three-quarter maroon leather and linen and marbled end papers.; Copy 5: Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham,No. 3133.

Subjects: Natural history - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244hi 1844

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3nv9r02m;view=1up;seq=9

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

History of Lancaster and York Counties : from the earliest settlements made within them; in the former, from 1709; in the latter from 1719, to the present time; to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, from A.D., 1681, to the year 1710: with an appendix

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Date of Publication: 1845.

Call Number: 090 L244hi 1845

Responsibility: Compiled from authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp.

Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Gilbert Hills,

Date of Publication: 1845.

Physical Description: 743, [4] p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Notes: "History of York County, from one thousand seven hundred and nineteen to the present time...by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., G. Hills, 1845": p. [526]--743.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; York County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244hi 1845

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

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Author: Haggerty, John,

Date of Publication: 1847. Masthof Press reprint, 1997.

Call Number: 364.1523 H145

Responsibility: By a member of the bar.

Author: Haggerty, John,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [J. H. Pearsol, printer],

Date of Publication: 1847. Masthof Press reprint, 1997.

Physical Description: 82 p. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Fordney, Melchior, - d. 1846.

Additional Author: Lewis, Ellis,; A member of the bar.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Lancaster Co.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 364.1523 H145

Memorandum of marriages: indentures of apprentices

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Date of Publication: 1843-1859

Call Number: 310.5 C295

Responsibility: performed by, and executed before me Michael Carpenter, Mayor of the City of Lancaster.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Date of Publication: 1843-1859

Physical Description: 129 p. : 20 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Marriage records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Apprentices - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indentured servants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Carpenter, Michael

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.5 C295

A geography of Pennsylvania : containing an account of the history, geographical features, soil, climate, geology, botany, zoology, population, education, government, finances, productions, trade, railroads, canals &c. of the state : with a separate description of each county, and questions for the convenience of teachers : to which is appended, a travellers' guide, or table of distances on the principal rail road, canal and stage routes in the state

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Author: Trego, Charles B.,

Date of Publication: 1843.

Call Number: 917.48 T784

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Responsibility: by Charles B. Trego ; illustrated by a map of the state and numerous engravings.

Author: Trego, Charles B.,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Edward C. Biddle,

Date of Publication: 1843.

Physical Description: 384 p. : ill., fold. map ; 20 cm.

Subjects: Travel.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Pennsylvania - History.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Additional Corporate Author: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 917.48 T784

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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00142072610

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=darltext;view=toc;idno=31735056287273

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

a Motor Vehicle. Photograph of an automobile at an unidentified toll gate. 1930. Folder 2 Railroads, Disbursements Payments from Bank of Pennsylvania, apparently for prominent people associated with railroad development in Lancaster County. 1835. Folder 3 Railroads, Columbia-related Railroads and

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), 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.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Catalogue and circular of Strasburg Academy, Lancaster County, Pa

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Date of Publication: [1849]

Call Number: 370 S889

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Wiley and Co. ,

Date of Publication: [1849]

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Library has: 1848-9, 1849-50, 1850-51, 1851-2, 1853 (bound together); Bound with: Papers read before the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. 32 nos. 1 and 2.; Includes an address delivered before students literary society of Strasburg Academy...1843 by John Leaman, M.D.

Subjects: Education - Lancaster County.; Strasburg Academy (Strasburg, Pa.)

Additional Author: Leaman, John

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 S889

Remarks of Mr. Champneys, of Lancaster Country, on the bill to reduce the state debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Co., in connexion with his former remarks on the same bill

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15679

Author: Champneys, Benjamin,

Date of Publication: 1844.

Call Number: 815 P769 # 34

Author: Champneys, Benjamin,

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Isaac G. M'Kinley & Co., printers,

Date of Publication: 1844.

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Co.; Finances - Pennsylvania.; Railroads - Pennsylvania.; Canals - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 34

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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

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

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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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History of Lancaster county. To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania. Comp. from authentic sources

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3630

Websites

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303

History of Lancaster and York Counties : from the earliest settlements made within them; in the former, from 1709; in the latter from 1719, to the present time; to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, from A.D., 1681, to the year 1710: with an appendix

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11868

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11967

Memorandum of marriages: indentures of apprentices

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2224

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18340

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Archive

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Catalogue and circular of Strasburg Academy, Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17669

Remarks of Mr. Champneys, of Lancaster Country, on the bill to reduce the state debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Co., in connexion with his former remarks on the same bill

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15679

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/8b950e59-596d-4ffd-bc86-444331137484

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