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Proceedings of the manufacturers, mechanics, merchants, traders and others of the City and County of Philadelphia signers of the memorial to Congress asking for the return of the government deposites to the Bank of the United States : with a report of the delegates appointed to represent at Washington the views and wishes of the memorialists, and a statement of their interview with Andrew Jackson

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Date of Publication: 1834.

Call Number: 815 P769 # 2

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1834.

Physical Description: 15 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Signed: John A. Brown, President.; Sabin 62089.; In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Brown, John A.; Bank of the United States (1816-1836); Banks and banking, Central - United States

Additional Author: Jackson, Andrew,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 2

Meeting to prevent the introduction of slaves into any territory or state admitted into the Union

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1930

Tuesday, November 23rd, 1819, a largely-attended meeting of citizens was held in the court house in Lancaster for the purpose of consulting upon measures that might prevent the introduction of slavery into any territory or state hereafter to be formed, or admitted into the Union. The Hon. Walter Franklin

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1930

Physical Description: 63-64 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 3

Subjects: Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Slavery - United States

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society Volume 34, number 3 (1930), p. 63-64Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34

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Loan exhibition of portraits of the signers and deputies to the convention of 1787 and signers of the Declaration of Independence : including their families and associates ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art, city of Washington, November 27, 1937, to February 1, 1938

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Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Call Number: 920.073 U58

Responsibility: assembled by the United States Sesquicentennial Commission.

Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Physical Description: 173 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: United States. - Constitutional Convention - (1787) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; United States. - Signers - Portraits - Exhibitions.; United States.; Portraits, American; Statesmen - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.073 U58

Constitution of the United States of America : the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and rules for the government of the house of representatives of said commonwealth

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Corporate Author: United States.

Date of Publication: 1835.

Call Number: 342.02 H313 1835

Corporate Author: United States.

Uniform Title: Constitution.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Printed by Patterson & Small,

Date of Publication: 1835.

Physical Description: 69 p. ; 17 cm.

Notes: Results of the election of the President Van Buren glued on inside front cover.; On front flyleaf: "Abraham Kauffman, member of House of Reprensentatives. Donated Kauffman's Park to the Borough of Manheim. His farm and land to the Mennonite Chuch along Manheim Pike and bears his name."; List of the committees of the House glued on inside back cover.

Subjects: Harrisburg (Pa.). - Patterson & Small - (1835); Pennsylvania.; United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 342.02 H313 1835

The Military adventures of Enoch Crosby: a moral tale of the Revolution, for the young

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Date of Publication: 1842 [c1831].

Call Number: 811.2 C949

Place of Publication: Rochester

Publisher: William Alling,

Date of Publication: 1842 [c1831].

Physical Description: 104 p. illus. 14 cm.

Subjects: Crosby, Enoch, - 1750-1835 - Fiction.; United States - History - Revolution - Fiction.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 811.2 C949

The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

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Author: Volm, M. H.

Date of Publication: 1937

Call Number: 973.342 V926

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Responsibility: by M.H. Volm.

Author: Volm, M. H.

Place of Publication: [Charlottesville? Va

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: 27 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; Bibliography: p. 26-27.

Summary: This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.342 V926

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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

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Corporate Author: United States.

Date of Publication: 1777.

Call Number: Book 587 1777

Corporate Author: United States.

Uniform Title: Articles of Confederation

Place of Publication: Lancaster

Publisher: Printed by Francis Bailey,

Date of Publication: 1777.

Physical Description: 26 pages ; 30 cm

Notes: Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeaates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.; Handwrittne Index precedes text.; Evans

Subjects: United States. - Early works to 1800.; Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.; Constitutional history.; Politics and government.; United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.; United States.; Paper bindings (Binding); Stabbing (Binding); Chainlines (Paper); Catchwords (Printing); Printers' devices (Publishing); Marginalia (Provenance); Autographs (Provenance); Early works.; Sources.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 587 1777

Report of Committee of Plain People making pleas for leniency from depressive school laws

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Corporate Author: Committee of Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites for the purpose of advocating remission of depressive school acts.

Date of Publication: 1939.

Call Number: 289.71 M547

Corporate Author: Committee of Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites for the purpose of advocating remission of depressive school acts.

Place of Publication: New Holland, Pa

Publisher: New Holland Clarion

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: 102 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Half-title: A brief history of educational standards from early Bible days to the present.; CONTENTS. -- (Part 1). Foreword signed by Eli M. Shirk.-- Pleas the Mennonites made at different times to various governments.-- Observations on trends of modern education.-- (Part 2). Report of action taken by the Plain People, asking the authorities for leniency in school matters ... -- Foreword signed by Aaron E. Beiler and Stephen F. Stoltzfus.-- Education in early Schristian experience.-- Early Pennsylvania educational experiences.-- Early school management of Christopher Dock.-- A hundred rules of conduct for children.-- Stand of Plain people on early Pennsylvania educational system.-- Views on education.-- Pleas for leniency from depressive school laws.-- Experiences of Plain people in Mexico.

Subjects: Amish - United States.; Mennonites - United States.; Education, Compulsory - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.71 M547

Observations on the more ancient statutes from Magna Charta to the twenty-first of James I. cap. XXVII. : With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes

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Author: Barrington, Daines,

Edition: The fourth edition.

Date of Publication: 1775.

Call Number: Book 646 1775

Responsibility: by the Honourable Daines Barrington ...

Author: Barrington, Daines,

Edition: The fourth edition.

Place of Publication: London : and B. White, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street

Publisher: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : And sold by S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York-Street ;

Date of Publication: 1775.

Physical Description: xii, 578 pages ; 29 cm (4to)

Notes: With an index.; Pages ix-xii contain 'contents'.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 646 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC,

Subjects: England.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Bowyer, William,; Nichols, John,; Baker, Samuel,; Leigh, George,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 646 1775

Mitchell's compendium of the internal improvements of the United States; comprising general notices of all the most important canals and rail-roads

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Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus

Date of Publication: 1835.

Call Number: 383 M681

Responsibility: with a brief notice of internal improvement in Canada and Nova Scotia.

Author: Mitchell, S. Augustus

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Mitchell & Hinman,

Date of Publication: 1835.

Physical Description: 4, [v]-viii, 9-84 p. incl. tables. fold. map. 16 cm.

Subjects: Canals - United States.; Railroads - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 383 M681

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