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Extracts from the Brethren's house and congregation diaries of the Moravian Church at Lititz, Pa., relating to the Revolutionary War

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Date of Publication: 1912

Call Number: 905.748 PGA

Responsibility: translated literally by Abraham Reincke Beck, archivist.

Place of Publication: Cleona, Pa

Publisher: The Penn Germania,

Date of Publication: 1912

Physical Description: 849-862 , : 24 cm.

Series: The Penn Germania ; v.13, no. 11-12

Subjects: Moravian Church (Lititz, Pa.); Diaries; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783

Additional Author: Beck, Abraham Reincke

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PGA

Gen. Edw. Hand in Sullivan's expedition / An address by H. Frank Eshleman, esq., of the Lancaster (Pa.) Bar at the Hand commermorative celebration, held under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society, in Williamson Park, near Lancaster, Sept. 20, 1912

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1912

Call Number: 923.5 H236e

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa.?

Date of Publication: 1912

Physical Description: 6, [1] p. : 23 cm.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H236e

The life of William Henry, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1729-1786, patriot, military officer, inventor of the steamboat ; a contribution to revolutionary history

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Author: Jordan, Francis,

Date of Publication: 1910.

Call Number: 926 H525j

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Responsibility: by Francis Jordan, jr.

Author: Jordan, Francis,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Press of the New era printing company,

Date of Publication: 1910.

Physical Description: vii, 185 p. front., plates, ports. 20 cm.

Subjects: Henry, William, - 1729-1786.; United States. - Army - Ordnance stores.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 926 H525j

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Laws enacted in the third sitting of the seventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty and three

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: 1783]

Call Number: Book 587 1783c

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Uniform Title: Laws (1783 Aug.-Sept.)

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1783]

Physical Description: P. [1], 186-254, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Caption title.; Place of publication supplied by Hildeburn and Evans.; Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the sixth General Assembly of the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the sitting which commenced at Philadelphia on Monday, the twenty-second day of October, and continued by adjournment to Friday, the twenty-eighth day of December, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, Philadelphia, 1782 (Evans 17659).; Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXXI-CII signed and enacted in the months of August and September, 1783 by Frederick Muhlenburg, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Z. Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.; Signatures: 3A-3SÂ².; Handwritten index precedes text.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; ESTC

Subjects: Law - Pennsylvania.; Law.; Politics and government.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; History.; Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad,; Lloyd, Peter Zachary.; Pod, Alexander.; Sharwood, Geo.; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Philadelphia. General Assembly.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 587 1783c

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

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Virginia militia in the revolutionary war; McAllister's data

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Author: McAllister, J. T.

Date of Publication: [c1913]

Call Number: 975.502 M165

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Author: McAllister, J. T.

Place of Publication: Hot Springs, Va

Publisher: McAllister publishing co.

Date of Publication: [c1913]

Physical Description: 337 p. 24 cm.

Subjects: Virginia - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Virginia - Militia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.502 M165

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t14m91g13&view=1up&seq=9

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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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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19384

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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https://archive.org/details/commemoration00lanc/page/n5

State of the accounts of Joshua Elder, Esquire, late sub-lieutenant of Lancaster County : In which is exhibited the amount of the monies received by him for militia fines, and accounted for; Together with lists shewing by whom they were paid; likewise the application and payment of the monies

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.). Sub-Lieutenant.

Date of Publication: M, DCC, LXXXV. [1785]

Call Number: 352.135 P544 1873

Corporate Author: Lancaster County (Pa.). Sub-Lieutenant.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by Robert Aitken, three doors above the coffee-house, in Market Street.,

Date of Publication: M, DCC, LXXXV. [1785]

Physical Description: 12 p. ; (8vo)

Notes: Signed on p. 5: John Nicholson. Comptroller General's Office, April 8th, 1785.; Evans

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History, Military.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Additional Author: Elder, Joshua.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Comptroller-General's Office.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 352.135 P544 1873

Our ancestors in the British prisons of the Revolution; read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, February 23, 1912

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Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg,

Date of Publication: 1912]

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 6 no. 1

Responsibility: by Capt. H.M.M. Richards.

Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg,

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa

Date of Publication: 1912]

Physical Description: 22 p. port. 24 cm.

Series: [Lebanon County Historical Society. Historical papers and addresses] v. 6, no. 1

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 6 no. 1

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Extracts from the Brethren's house and congregation diaries of the Moravian Church at Lititz, Pa., relating to the Revolutionary War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16382

Gen. Edw. Hand in Sullivan's expedition / An address by H. Frank Eshleman, esq., of the Lancaster (Pa.) Bar at the Hand commermorative celebration, held under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society, in Williamson Park, near Lancaster, Sept. 20, 1912

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3900

The life of William Henry, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1729-1786, patriot, military officer, inventor of the steamboat ; a contribution to revolutionary history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5271

Websites

Laws enacted in the third sitting of the seventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty and three

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21617

The military hospital at Litiz, 1777-78

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3386

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Virginia militia in the revolutionary war; McAllister's data

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13374

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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/fcebc4ce-c00a-489e-9a26-844531355222

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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19384

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State of the accounts of Joshua Elder, Esquire, late sub-lieutenant of Lancaster County : In which is exhibited the amount of the monies received by him for militia fines, and accounted for; Together with lists shewing by whom they were paid; likewise the application and payment of the monies

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16793

Our ancestors in the British prisons of the Revolution; read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, February 23, 1912

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18695