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Memorial souvenir, commemorating the 150th anniversary of York as the capital of the United States of America 1777-1778 : York, Pa., October thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, 1927

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Corporate Author: Conservation Society of York County (Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1927.

Call Number: 974.841 M533 Oversize

Corporate Author: Conservation Society of York County (Pa.)

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: The Society,

Date of Publication: 1927.

Physical Description: 64 p. (p. 53-64 advertisements) : ill. ; 32 cm.

Subjects: York (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 M533 Oversize

Archive

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Object ID: MG0098

Date Range: 1776-1976

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Description: The Revolutionary War Collection contains a variety of materials from and about the Revolutionary War in Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. The original records include correspondence, military pay certificates, court records, and an orderly book kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr. during the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. There are also research notes and secondary sources, including a list of prisoners of war, a list of males in Lancaster County in 1776, Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780, articles, information on soldiers buried in Lancaster County, and an article about John Paul Jones.

Date Range: 1776-1976

Creation Date: 1776-1976

Year Range From: 1776

Year Range To: 1976

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Beddulph, Robert; Boyd, John; Burd, James Edward; Chambers, Stephen; Coedans, James; Cooke, William; Ferree, John; Getty, Christian; Gurney, Francis; Hubley, Adam; Jolly, James A. "Jim"; Joy, Daniel; Kieffer, Henry Martyn; Moore, William; Neal, James; Patterson, Alex; Porter, Thomas; Ramsay, David; Rapp, Brandon; Reid, George W.; Worner, William Frederic; Zellty, John A.

Subjects: Cemeteries; Letters; Military history; Military regulations; Newtown, Battle of, Newtown, N.Y., 1779; Prisoners of war; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle of, Stony Point, N.Y., 1779; Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons

Search Terms: Battle of Newtown; Battle of Stony Point; Cemeteries; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Finding aids; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Letters; Manuscript groups; Military history; Military records; Military regulations; Prisoners of war; Receipts; Revolutionary War; Soldiers; Sullivan Campaign, 1779

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0098

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Credit: Revolutionary War Collection (MG-98), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-98

Other Number: MG-98

Classification: MG0098

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Items have been added and the finding aid has been updated since 1997.

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The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo

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Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Author: Sipe, C. Hale

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: The Telegraph Press,

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Notes: Tail-pieces.; "Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]; "Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.; "Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.; "List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.; Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Indians of North America; Fortification - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Historic houses, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 S618w

Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

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Date of Publication: 1912.

Call Number: 923.5 H236c

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Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: s.l.]

Date of Publication: 1912.

Physical Description: 8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Notes: Order of exercises and songs laid in.

Summary: Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.

Subjects: Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H236c

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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the revolution at "Indian Rock" : Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday, P.M. September 20, CMMXII

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Date of Publication: 1912

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L224

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: L.B. Herr Print.,

Date of Publication: 1912

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 31 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Illustrations on p. 1 and 4 of cover.; "Genealogy of the Hand family": p. 1-3.; "Chronology of Lancaster County in the revolution with special reference to the services of General Edward Hand, M.D.": p. 4-12.; Bound with Commemoration of the nativity of Robert Fulton (1915); Commemorating the bi-centennial of the first settlement in Lancaster County (1910); Commemoration of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 (1911); and Founder's Memorial Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Gap, Lancaster, Pa. (1912).

Subjects: Hand, Edward, - 1744-1802 - Family.; Hand family.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

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

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L224

Along the western Brandywine

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Author: MacElree, Wilmer W.,

Edition: 2d ed.

Date of Publication: 1912.

Call Number: 974.813 M141b

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Responsibility: by Wilmer W. MacElree.

Author: MacElree, Wilmer W.,

Edition: 2d ed.

Place of Publication: [West Chester, Pa

Publisher: F. S. Hickman, printer]

Date of Publication: 1912.

Physical Description: 199 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims. 28 cm.

Summary: A 1909 tour of the towns and places near the west branch of the Brandywine Creek, it includes Honey Brook and the railroad that once ran through it, Coatesville, Hibernia, Icedale, West Chester, Chadds Ford, and many other sites in Chester County, northern Maryland, and Delaware.

Subjects: Brandywine, Battle of, 1777.; Chester County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Brandywine Creek.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.813 M141b

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The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78

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Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1919

, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78 / by Prof. Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Military hospitals--Pennsylvania. Lititz (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

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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