Speech of Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. in favor of the bill to establish a school of arts in the city of Philadelphia, and to endow the colleges and academies of Pennsylvania. : Delivered in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, March 10th, 1838
An alphabetical listing of heads of households (with age and sex of all members of households) included in the 1800 federal census of Adams County, Pennsylvania
The life and confession of Henry Smith, who was found guilty in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Lancaster, Pa. in January, 1838 : of the murder of Benjamin Peart, and sentenced to be executed within the walls of the Lancaster County Jail, on the 11th of May 1838
Cover title continues: Marriages, births, deaths from the earliest records through 1800 of the Dutch Reformed, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Roman Catholics and Reformed (German).
Introduction signed: F. Edward Wright.
Includes index.
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Bibliography: p. x.
Contents
Lower Bermudian Church -- Upper Bermudian "Ground Oak: Church -- Christ's Church (Episcopal), York Springs -- Bender's Church (Lutheran and Reformed) -- Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church (Conewago), Littlestown -- Abbottstown Reformed Church (Emanuel Reformed) -- Arendtsville Lutheran and Reformed Congregations -- Dutch Reformed of Conewago -- Rock Creek / United Presbyterian Congregation of Gettysburg -- Minutes of the Upper Marsh (Marsh Creek Gettysburg) Presbyterians -- Register of Births and Deaths of Menallen Monthly Meeting (Quaker) -- Excerpts from diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson -- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germany Township -- Conewago Chapel, Edge Grove (Roman Catholic)
On back of cover: Marked Exhibit B. At the Execution of a Commission for the examination of witnesses between Thaddeus Stevens (Plf) and Jacob Lefever (Deft) this Book was shewn to Israel Pickney, Jason[?] Hanksile [?], Avery Allyn, and by them deposed unto, at the time of their examination. Before me Henry Cotheal, Henrytana Ward, Levi H Clarke, Commissioners.
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York Rite, Royal Arch, Royal Master, Select Master, Ark and Dove, Knights of Constantinople, Secret Monitor, Heroine of Jericho, Knights of Three Kings, Knights of Red Cross, Knights Templars, Knights of Malta, Knights of the Christian Mark, Gaurds of the Conclave, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Order of the Cross, Ineffable degrees.
This article chronicles a conflict in Harrisburg, PA, when open warfare threatened to break out due to a dispute over what party would control the state House of Representatives. State militia was called out and armed with buckshot. No shots were fired however, and the dispute was settled.
The doctrine of the new birth, : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive. : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. Onesimus
