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The political history and development of Lancaster County's first twenty years, 1729-1749

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1916

common people, loved stove every other man in Pennsylvania, during the very time �1734. This fall a new political power appeared in Lancaster county. He seems to have bounded into lead- ership at once—James Hamilton. Of the four members elected to Assembly, he received the highest vote by far. There was

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Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1916

Physical Description: 37-68 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 20, no. 2

Subjects: Wright, John, - 1667-1749.; Hamilton, James, - 1710-1783.; Politics, Practical; Political parties - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 20, number 2 (1916), p. 37-68Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.20

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Dreaming on the Conestoga : a collection of sonnets written on the stream of my childhood and the poems of idle hours in a busy man's life

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Author: Urban, Benjamin F. W.

Date of Publication: 1911.

Call Number: 811 U72d

Responsibility: by B. F. W. Urban.

Author: Urban, Benjamin F. W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Urban,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Physical Description: xv, 312 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes the author's "The story of Gettysburg": p. [257]-312.

Subjects: American poetry; Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Urban, Benjamin F. W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 811 U72d

The Ryerson genealogy; genealogy and history of the Knickerbocker families of Ryerson, Ryerse, Ryerss; also Adriance and Martense families; all descendants of Martin and Adriaen Reyerz (Reyerszen), of Amsterdam, Holland

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Author: Ryerson, Albert Winslow,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Call Number: 929 R993

Responsibility: by Albert Winslow Ryerson ... ed. by Alfred L. Holman.

Author: Ryerson, Albert Winslow,

Place of Publication: Chicago

Publisher: Priv. print. for E. L. Ryerson,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Physical Description: xv. 433 p., 1 l. col. coat of arms. 28 cm.

Subjects: Ryerson family (Marten Reyerson, d. 1687); Adriance family (Adriaen Reyersz. d. 1710); Martense family (Adriaen Reyersz, d. 1710); Ryerson family.

Additional Author: Holman, Alfred L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 R993

The religious convictions and character of James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States - a citizen of Lancaster County - a member of the Presbyterian church

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1912.

Call Number: 923.173 B918he

Responsibility: a paper by W.U. Hensel in the course of "Profitable Evenings," Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Gap, Pa., November 10, 1911.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Intelligencer Print,

Date of Publication: 1912.

Physical Description: 34 p. 23 cm.

Notes: "A considerable part of this paper has been published heretofore as an address on 'A Pennsylvania Presbyterian president, ' before the Presbyterian social union, at Philadelphia, November 25, 1907. Since that time much new matter has been found and added."

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918he

The life of William Henry, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1729-1786, patriot, military officer, inventor of the steamboat ; a contribution to revolutionary history

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Author: Jordan, Francis,

Date of Publication: 1910.

Call Number: 926 H525j

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Responsibility: by Francis Jordan, jr.

Author: Jordan, Francis,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Press of the New era printing company,

Date of Publication: 1910.

Physical Description: vii, 185 p. front., plates, ports. 20 cm.

Subjects: Henry, William, - 1729-1786.; United States. - Army - Ordnance stores.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 926 H525j

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Lancaster lyrics, a cheerful volume of popular poems

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Author: Landis, D. B.

Date of Publication: 1914.

Call Number: 811 L257

Responsibility: [by] David Bachman Landis. Copiously illustrated from the author's photographs ...

Author: Landis, D. B.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The author, Pluck art printery,

Date of Publication: 1914.

Physical Description: 3 p. Î²., [xi]-xxi p., 1 Î²., 25-310 p., 1 Î². illus., pl., port. 24 cm.

Notes: "This initial edition of Lancaster lyrics is limited to four hundred and forty-four copies of which yours is no. 338."; The R. Theodore Bixlers' Collection of Lancaster Authors.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Poetry.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Poetry.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 811 L257

The Attitude of James Buchanan : a citizen of Lancaster county ; towards the institution of Slavery in the United States

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1911.

Call Number: 923.173 B918ha

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Responsibility: by W.U. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Press of the New Era Printing Co.,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Physical Description: 20 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Slavery - United States.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.).

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918ha

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The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1911

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

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Responsibility: by W. U. Hensel, Esq.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1911

Physical Description: 142-159 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 5

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Views on slavery.; Slavery - United States

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 5 (1911), p. 142-159Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15

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Poetical tributes to the Conestoga River

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Date of Publication: 1912

Poetical Tributes to the Conestoga River. Mr. F. R. Diffenderffer's paper, "A Plea for the Conestoga River," read before the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society at the January meeting, seems not only to have struck a pop- ular chord in public sentiment, but also to have called forth several

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1912

Physical Description: 114-115 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 4

Subjects: Conestoga River (Pa.) - Poetry.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Poetry.

Additional Author: Law, James Duff,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 16, number 4 (1912), p. 114-115Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.16

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Praxis almae curiae cancellariae : in two volumes : being a collection of precedents, by bill and answer, plea and demurrer, in causes of the greatest moment (wherein equity hath been allowed) which have been commenced in the High Court of Chancery, for more than 30 years last past : with appeals (in several cases of great difficulty) to the House of Peers in Parliament, and the proceedings thereupon : also, a compleat collection of all the writs and process concerning the same, together with a praeliminary discourse, by way of rules, succinctly and methodically drawn up, containing the practice of the said court, in every particular branch of the equitable part thereof

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The third edition, with additions.

Date of Publication: 1714.

Call Number: Book 519 1714; Book 518 1714

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The third edition, with additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer Esq. for Abel Roper, and Samuel Butler ...,

Date of Publication: 1714.

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: "By William Brown"--T.p. of v. 2.; Sometimes attributed to Sir Robert Heath. Cf. Halkett & Laing.; Vol. 1: [8], 576 p.; v. 2: [8], 103, [1]; 176; 401-720, [40] p.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbers 518 and 519 as assigned by Yeates.; Signature of B. Crosby on flyleaf struck.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,; English Short Title Catalogue,

Subjects: Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Great Britain.; Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain.; Early works.; Vol 1: linen boards (Binding); Vol 2: Full blind-tooled leather(Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Heath, Robert,; Bay, Elihu Hall,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 519 1714; Book 518 1714

National publications containing short stories "Pennsylvania Dutch Series" by Mary Brecht Pulver : and her biography, including a collection of her verse and a listing of her stories

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Date of Publication: 1915-1925.

Call Number: 810.54 P983 Oversize

Date of Publication: 1915-1925.

Physical Description: 1 vol. : ill. ; 35 cm.

Notes: Other materials concerning Mary B. Pulver are found in Archives: MG 284 - Mary Brecht Pulver Papers.

Contents: Portrait, biography, poems, and list of stories in magazine form --- "Minnie Good of Manheim" in The Saturday Evening Post, July 24, 1915, p. 16-17, 36-37 -- "His day of days" in The Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1915, p. 26-30 -- "The Vampire" in The Saturday Evening Post, November 18, 1916, p. 16-17, 54, 56, 58 -- "Cass the Red-Cheeked, what became of the Gypsy's prophecy about her" in The Ladies' Home Journal, June 1916, p. 23, 73-75.

Subjects: Pulver, Mary Brecht, - 1882-1926.; Pennsylvania Dutch - Fiction.; American fiction; American poetry; Authors - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 810.54 P983 Oversize

James Buchanan as a lawyer : an address before the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 28, 1912

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1912?]

Call Number: 923.173 B918hj

Responsibility: by W.U. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia, Pa.?

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1912?]

Physical Description: 36 p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: "Reprinted from the University of Pennsylvania law review and American law register, 1912."; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Lawyers - Pennsylvania - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918hj

Return of the sick at Lititz Hospital, August 23, 1778

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Author: Jordan, John W.

Date of Publication: 1912.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP

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Responsibility: John W. Jordan.

Author: Jordan, John W.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: 1912.

Physical Description: pp. 379-381 ; 23 cm.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.36.; "A list of men's names remaining in the Gen. Hospital at Lititz in Brigades, Regt., Compys., 8c. August 23, 1778."

Subjects: Military hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lititz

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP

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A trip to Europe and the facts gleaned on the way; observations, narratives and general notes of travel as viewed and given by a primitive Pennsylvania farmer. Also a collection of numerous interesting facts relative to the places and countries visited. With twenty-six illustrations and a complete map of Germany

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Author: Fisher, Jonathan B.

Date of Publication: 1911.

Call Number: 817 F534

Responsibility: by Jonathan B. Fisher...

Author: Fisher, Jonathan B.

Place of Publication: Sugarcreek, O

Publisher: J.C. Miller, printer,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Physical Description: 346 p. ; front., illus., fold. maps, 19 cm.

Subjects: Europe - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 817 F534

Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme

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Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1719.

Call Number: Book 887 1719

Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1719.

Physical Description: [28], 422, [42] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Signatures: Aâ¸ aâ´ bÂ² B-2Gâ¸.; Advertisements on first and last leaves.; "Precedents": p. 395-422.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 887 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Husband and wife - Great Britain.; Marriage law - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Husband and wife.; Marriage law.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 887 1719

Monnet family genealogy : an emphasis of a noble Huguenot heritage, somewhat of the first immigrants Isaac and Pierre Monnet being a presentation of those in America bearing the name as variously spelled, Monet, Monete, Monett, Monette, Monnet, Monnett, Monnete, Monnette, Monay, Maunay, Money, Monie, Monnie, Monat, Monatt, Manett, Mannett, Munnitt, Munnett, Manee, Maney, Amonnet, Amonet, etc., with complete genealogies of the main lines : including the history of la noble maison de Monet de la Marck, seigneurs et barons, from the year 1632 : the genealogy of seigneurs de Monnet, la Maison de Salins, from the year 1184 : and containing short accounts of certain of the Pillot, Nuthall, Sprigg, Hillary, Mariarte, Crabb, Williams, Osborn, Burrell, Hellen, Lake and Bird, Caldwell, Slagle, ReichelsdÃ¶rfer, Hagenbuch, Schissler, Braucher, Wayland, Wilhoit, Kinnear, Hull, Ludwig, Lutz, et al., families

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Author: Monnette, Orra Eugene,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Call Number: 929 M748

Responsibility: written and compiled by Orra Eugene Monnette.

Author: Monnette, Orra Eugene,

Place of Publication: Los Angeles, Calif

Publisher: C.E. Bireley,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Physical Description: various pagings : ill., coats of arms, facsims., maps, ports.

Notes: "Almost all of the information contained in this publication is copied from the original book authored by Mr. Orra Eugene Monnette. Since his book comprises some 1200 pages, and since it is so comprehensive as to include several other branches of the Monnette, Monette and Monnet families, only those pages have been copied and appear herein that support the genealogy of the J.B. Monnette family genealogy."; Printed from Family Tree Maker, CD193 County and Family Histories: PA, 1740-1900, Disk 2, Monnet Family Genealogy.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Monnet family.; Monnet, Isaac, - b. ca. 1650.; Monnet, Pierre, - d. ca. 1712.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 M748

Gen. Edw. Hand in Sullivan's expedition / An address by H. Frank Eshleman, esq., of the Lancaster (Pa.) Bar at the Hand commermorative celebration, held under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society, in Williamson Park, near Lancaster, Sept. 20, 1912

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1912

Call Number: 923.5 H236e

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa.?

Date of Publication: 1912

Physical Description: 6, [1] p. : 23 cm.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H236e

The confidential correspondence of Robert Morris, the great financier of the revolution and signer of the Declaration of Independence

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Author: Morris, Robert,

Date of Publication: [1917?]

Call Number: 973.3 H513

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Responsibility: embracing letters of the most vital historical importance from signers of the Declaration of Independence (many of them written in 1776) members of the Continental Congress, generals, commodores, other officers and patriots in the revolution ... to be sold Tuesday afternoon and evening, Jan. 16th, 1917.

Author: Morris, Robert,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: S. V. Henkels

Date of Publication: [1917?]

Physical Description: xvi, 208 p. illus. 28 cm.

Subjects: Morris, Robert, - 1734-1806.; Autographs; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources - Bibliography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 H513

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The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78

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Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1919

sooner the better." Then follows an entry which touches the cord of sympathy with our own happy experiences of November 11, 1918. It reads: " 1783. Dec. 11th. A day of Thanksgiving appointed by the National Government. In the evening, for joy at the return of peace, we illuminated our house ; the

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Responsibility: by Prof. Herbert H. Beck.

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1919

Physical Description: [4]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 1

Summary: This article, written in 1919, describes life in Lititz during the Revolutionary war as well as the establishment the military hospital. Lititz was not a formal religious community as were Nazareth and Bethlehem, but the Moravian church was very influential in the town and operated several businesses there. The article provides many diary entries, some of which are unrelated to the hospital.

Subjects: Military hospitals - Pennsylvania.; Lititz (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Contained In: Contained in: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 23, number 1 (1919), p. 5-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.23

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The political history and development of Lancaster County's first twenty years, 1729-1749

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Dreaming on the Conestoga : a collection of sonnets written on the stream of my childhood and the poems of idle hours in a busy man's life

The Ryerson genealogy; genealogy and history of the Knickerbocker families of Ryerson, Ryerse, Ryerss; also Adriance and Martense families; all descendants of Martin and Adriaen Reyerz (Reyerszen), of Amsterdam, Holland

The religious convictions and character of James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States - a citizen of Lancaster County - a member of the Presbyterian church

The life of William Henry, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1729-1786, patriot, military officer, inventor of the steamboat ; a contribution to revolutionary history

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Lancaster lyrics, a cheerful volume of popular poems

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The Attitude of James Buchanan : a citizen of Lancaster county ; towards the institution of Slavery in the United States

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The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States

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Poetical tributes to the Conestoga River

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National publications containing short stories "Pennsylvania Dutch Series" by Mary Brecht Pulver : and her biography, including a collection of her verse and a listing of her stories

James Buchanan as a lawyer : an address before the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, March 28, 1912

Return of the sick at Lititz Hospital, August 23, 1778

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Gen. Edw. Hand in Sullivan's expedition / An address by H. Frank Eshleman, esq., of the Lancaster (Pa.) Bar at the Hand commermorative celebration, held under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society, in Williamson Park, near Lancaster, Sept. 20, 1912

The confidential correspondence of Robert Morris, the great financier of the revolution and signer of the Declaration of Independence

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The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78

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