Principal faculty advisor: Benno M. Forman, Dept. of Art History.
Bibliography: leaves 50-55.
Contents
Chapters: Introduction - History of Lancaster Borough - The building and furniture trades in Lancaster - Economic Status of the Furniture and Building Trades in Lancaster - Success and Kinship - Products , perception , and use of material culture - Conclusion.
Summary
"Lancaster, Pennsylvania, flourished during the last half ofthe eighteenth century. The borough had been founded in 1729 as an inland supply center for the lucrative fur trade and as a gateway to western expansion. The financial opportunities Lancaster offered attracted merchants, professional men, tradesmen, and artisans. This thesis focuses on one group of craftsmen, woodworkers involved in thebuilding and furniture trades between 1750 and 1800. German immigration to southeastern Pennsylvania was high during the eighteenth century, and many of them settled in Lancaster. The ethnic ratio of the woodworkers reflected the town's five-to-one, German-to-British (that is, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish ) ratio. These artisans shared a common technological skill and, in most cases, a common cultural heritage. This study will examine the growth of thewoodworking trade and will isolate factors that contributed to thewoodworkers' success or failure in the borough. The craftsmen's products will be discussed to determine the extent the Germans adaptedto the British culture and simultaneously retained their ethnic identity. [from the introduction]
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. Volume 25, Folk Festival Supplement (Summer 1976), p. 48-56Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 PDF v. 25
History of Cecil County, Maryland, and the early settlements around the head of Chesapeake Bay and on the Delaware River, with sketches of some of the old families of Cecil County
"The loss of many of the early colonial and county records and the miserably dilapidated condition of many of those extant, have added greatly to the difficulty and labor of the work, and made it in some cases impossible to refer the reader to the sources from which important information has been obtained. Not withstanding which, the author has quoted largely from the archives of the State and county as well as from the writings and correspondence of many persons mentioned in the work " [from the preface]
Das neue und verbesserte Gesang-Buch : worinnen die Psalmen Davids samt einer Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder sowohl für privat und Hausandachten, als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind : nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus, wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter
"Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder ..."--[8], 585, [10] p., with separate t.p.
"Catechismus, oder kurzer Unterricht christlicher Lehre ..."--P. [11-43], last count.
Copy 1 inscription on inside front cover: "This book was used by Marie Salome Le Roy Hall-Schnickel; born 1742 - died 1817. She was a daughter of Abram Le Roy and became wife of Charles Hall. After his death she was married to ____Schinckel. She was the Great-Great-Grandmother of Marion E. Breneman, of Dayton, Ohio. The line of descent being as follows: Salome Le Roy Hall, Elizabeth Hall Ford, Marian Ford Breneman, Edward Breneman, Marion E. Bredneman".
The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers, with the first rise of the neighbouring Colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is added a brief description of the said province, and the general state in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760-1770 ... With an appendix. Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Monday, the first day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ... Published by authority
An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition : [Three lines in Latin from Tacitus]
