Graphic scale in miles and perches represented on map.
Attributed to Joshua Scott.
Relief shown by hill shading.
Irregularly shaped.
Insets: Post offices in Lancaster County (table)--Business cards of subscribers in Columbia--Cards of Marietta subscribers--Business cards of subscribers in Lancaster city--Cedar Hill Female Seminary (ill.)--Residence of John H. Breneman, Mount Joy (ill.)--Moravian Church, Lititz (ill.)--Mount Joy Steam Mills (ill.)--Mount Joy Academy (ill.)--Millersville Normal School (ill.)--Lititz Springs Hotel (ill.)--Lancaster County Court House (ill.)--Mount Joy Car Manufactory (ill.)--Residence of B.M. Greider, Mount Joy (ill.)--Borough of Manheim (map)--Lititz (map)--New Haven (map)--Borough of Mount Joy (map).
Stamp: Library of Congress Maps and Charts, No. 4670.
conducted by James B. Longacre ... and James Herring ... under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Henry Perkins,
Date of Publication
1834-1839.
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Each volume has added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
Original issue has imprint: New York, M. Bancroft, 1834-1839.
Library has v. 3 only.
Contents
v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S. -- Martha Washington -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- Major-General Nathanael Greene -- Major-General Anthony Wayne -- Major-General William Moultrie -- Major General Israel Putnam -- Colonel Timothy Pickering -- Governor Isaac Shelby -- Governor Aaron Ogden -- John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S. -- Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania -- Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams -- Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S. -- Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate -- Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S. -- Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate -- Hon. William Wirt -- Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War -- Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Alexander Macomb -- Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D. -- Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate -- Hon. Edward Livingston -- Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State -- Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania -- Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D. -- Hon. Joel Barlow -- Colonel John Trumbull -- Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq. -- Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D. -- Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq. -- Catharine M. Sedgwick -- James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.
v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S. -- John Hancock, President of Congress -- John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S. -- Patrick Henry -- Major-General Joseph Warren -- Major-General Henry Knox -- Major-General Benjamin Lincoln -- Major-General David Wooster -- Major-General Philip Schuyler -- Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury -- Governor John E. Howard -- Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams -- Governor John Brooks -- Colonel Francis Barber -- John Barry, U.S. Navy -- Daniel Boon[!] -- David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S. -- David Humphreys, LL.D. -- Edward Preble, U.S. Navy -- Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Jacob Brown -- Governor Dewitt Clinton -- Hon. James A. Bayard -- Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S. -- Governor Robert Y. Hayne -- Hon. William Gaston -- Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury -- Mrs. Marcia Van Ness -- Noah Webster, LL.D. -- Caspar Wistar, M.D. -- David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S. -- James Kent, LL.D. -- Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy -- Governor George Wolf.
v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S. -- Mrs. Madison -- James Monroe, 5th President U.S. -- John Dickinson -- Francis Hopkinson -- Elias Boudinot -- Benjamin Rush, M.D. -- David Ramsay, M.D. -- Major-General Arthur St. Clair -- Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh -- Major-General Daniel Morgan -- Brigadier-General Francis Marion -- Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens -- Brigadier-General Henry Lee -- Brigadier-General William Augustine Washington -- Major-General Morgan Lewis -- Benjamin Tallmadge -- Governor James Jackson -- Governor William Richardson Davie -- Paul Jones, U.S. Navy -- Richard Dale, U.S. Navy -- William Bainbridge, U.S. Navy -- Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy -- Fisher Ames -- Rufus King -- Stephen Van Rensselaer -- William Pinkney -- Lindley Murray -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Robert Fulton -- Joseph Story, LL.D. -- Major-General William Henry Harrison -- Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S. -- Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy -- Felix Grundy, U.S. Senate.
A Tribute to the memory, character and position of Washington, the Father of American independence, with a biographical sketch of his beloved wife Martha, together with Chateaubriand's interview with Washington, a poem entitled The dawn of liberty, and a beautiful couplet on seeing his grave at Mount Vernon
