Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
x, [2], [17]-292 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Notes
Publication date suggested by the Preface (p. [v]-vii), signed "Philadelphia, October, 1835."
The Gift was published annually in eight issues dated 1836 to 1845, with none for 1838 and 1841.
Faded inscription on second fly leaf.
Library has 1836 volume.
Faxon, F.W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books,
Thompson, R. Annuals,
BAL,
Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe,
Eliza Leslie was a writer of fiction and nonfiction works for juveniles and adults. Almost yearly, between 1836-1845, she edited an annual gift book called The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present, with contributions from Edgar Allan Poe , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other authors.
An account of the arguments of counsel, and the directions of the court, on a plea of Auterfois Acquit : pleaded by James Foy, at the Summer Assizes 1786 ... to an indictment for procuring ... Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig ... to slee and murder Patrick Randal McDonnell, Esquire, and Charles Hipson, with the pleadings in that case
With half-title: An account of the arguments of counsel and the directions of the Court in the case of the King and Foy.
Signatures: pi4 A-K4 (pi1 verso, pi2 verso, K3 verso blank).
Bound with The trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq; and Timothy Brecknock...the murder of Pat. Ran. McDonnell and Charles Hipson...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1786 - The trial of John Magee for....libel against Richard Daly...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1790 - Ten thousand pounds damages...a report on the trial ...brought by the Reverand Charles Massy against...the Marquis of Headfort for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife...Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1804 - Trial of Fracis Bellew, esq...for appearing in arms with a mob of defenders...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794 - A faithful report of the trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star...Belfast, 1794.
Free-masonry unmasked, or, Minutes of the trial of a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County : wherein Thaddeus Stevens, Esq. was plaintiff, and Jacob Lefever, defendant
State of the accounts of James Ross, esquire, lieutenant of the county of Lancaster, from the time of his appointment to the 1st August 1785 ... account of the monies received by him for militia fines
