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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 of the general states, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix

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Author
Proud, Robert,
Date of Publication
1797-1798.
Call Number
974.8 P544 1797
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Responsibility
written principally between the years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud.
Author
Proud, Robert,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,
Date of Publication
1797-1798.
Physical Description
2 v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Library has: vol. 1.
Full leather binding with red spine label stamped in gold.
Bookplate of Redmond Conygnham, No. 2435.
Evans
Contents
I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709.--II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Society of Friends.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Sweden - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.8 P544 1797
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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

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Author
Proud, Robert,
Date of Publication
1798.
Call Number
974.802 P968
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Author
Proud, Robert,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Z. Poulson,
Date of Publication
1798.
Physical Description
2 v. map (on lining papers), port. 22 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania heritage series
Notes
Photoreproduction. Spartanburg, S.C., Reprint Co., 1967.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718
Society of Friends.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Sweden - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968
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Items of local interest in the Pennsylvania Gazette : 1750 to 1760 inclusive

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1919
): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 133-148 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the
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Responsibility
copies by H. Frank Eshleman.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1919
Physical Description
133-148 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 8
Subjects
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 23, number 8 (1919), p. 133-148Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.23
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Early local historical items

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1913
, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17
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Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1913
Physical Description
123-137 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5
Subjects
American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 17, number 5 (1913), p. 123-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.17
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American colonists in English records. A guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

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Author
Sherwood, George Frederick Tudor,
Date of Publication
1932.
Call Number
929.3 S554
Author
Sherwood, George Frederick Tudor,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
George Sherwood,
Date of Publication
1932.
Physical Description
99 p. 26 cm.
Subjects
British - United States.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
United States - Emigration and immigration.
Great Britain - Emigration and immigration.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 S554
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American colonists in English records. a guide to direct references in authentic records, passenger lists not in "Hotten", &c., &c., &c

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Author
Sherwood, George Frederick Taylor,
Date of Publication
1933.
Call Number
929.3 S554 2d. series
Author
Sherwood, George Frederick Taylor,
Place of Publication
London, England
Publisher
G. Sherwood,
Date of Publication
1933.
Physical Description
p. 101-215 ; 26 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
British - United States.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
United States - Emigration and immigration.
Great Britain - Emigration and immigration.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 S554 2d. series
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An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map

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Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Date of Publication
1938.
Call Number
974.801 T456
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Responsibility
by Gabriel Thomas ; edited, with copious notes, &c. by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
Author
Thomas, Gabriel.
Edition
Enl. and repr.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Aurand Press,
Date of Publication
1938.
Physical Description
32 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : A. Baldwin, 1698. Reprinted at the Aurand Press, 1935.
Cover title: History of Pensilvania, published in London in 1698.
"Privately printed for the editor and his friends".
Filmed with: Good order established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / by Thomas Budd. Cleveland : Burrows Co., 1902.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Early works to 1800.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Early works to 1800.
Additional Author
Aurand, A. Monroe
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.801 T456
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Year book and history, Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, inc

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Corporate Author
Daughters of Colonial Wars. Massachusetts.
Date of Publication
1932?-
Call Number
369.12 D237
Corporate Author
Daughters of Colonial Wars. Massachusetts.
Place of Publication
[Boston?]
Date of Publication
1932?-
Physical Description
v. plates. 23 cm.
Series
Its Publication no. 5
Subjects
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Societies, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
369.12 D237
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Narratives of early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707

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Author
Myers, Albert Cook,
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
974.8028 M996
Responsibility
ed. by Albert Cook Myers ...
Author
Myers, Albert Cook,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons,
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
xiv p., 2 β., 3-476 p. fold. map, fold. plan, facsim. 24 cm.
Series
Original narratives of early American history
Notes
Series title also at head of t.-p.
--A further account of the province of Pennsylvania, by William Penn, 1685.--Letters of Doctor Nicholas More, and others, 1686.--A short description of Pennsylvania, by Richard Frame, 1692.--An historical and geographical account of Pennsylvania and West-New-Jersey, by Gabriel Thomas, 1698.--Circumstantial geographical description of Pennsylvania, by Francis Daniel Pastorius, 1700.--Letter of John Jones, 1725.
Contents
From the "Korte historiael ende journaels aenteyckenings," by David Pietersz, de Vries, 1630-1633, 1644 (1665).--Relation of Captain Thomas Young, 1634.--From the "Account of the Swedish churches in New Sweden," by Reverend Israel Acrelius, 1759.--Affidavit of four men from the "Key of Calmar," 1638.--Report of Governor Johan Printz, 1644.--Report of Govern John Printz, 1647.--Report of Govenor Johan Rising. 1654.--Report of Governor Johan Rising, 1655.--Relation of the surrender of New Sweden, by Governor Johan Clason Rising, 1655.--The epistle of Penn. Lawrie and Lucas, respecting West Jersey, 1676.--The present stae of the colony of West-Jersey, 1681.--Some account of the province of Pennsylvania, by William Penn, 1681.--Letters from William Penn to the committee of the Free Society of Trades, 1683.--Letter of Thomas Paschall, 1683.
Subjects
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) - History.
Delaware - History - Sources.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Delaware - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 M996
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Some comments on colonial times in Pennsylvania; address before the Society of colonial wars in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 10, 1932

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Author
Atlee, Benjamin Champneys,
Date of Publication
1932.
Call Number
974.8028 A881
Responsibility
by Benjamin C. Atlee.
Author
Atlee, Benjamin Champneys,
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
Printed by order of the Society,
Date of Publication
1932.
Physical Description
11 p. 23 cm.
Series
Historical publications of the Society of colonial wars in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. vol. IV, no. 5
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 A881
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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
  1 website  
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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The German and Swiss settlements of colonial Pennsylvania : a study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch

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Author
Kuhns, Levi Oscar,
Edition
New ed.
Date of Publication
1914.
Call Number
974.802812 K96
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Oscar Kuhns.
Author
Kuhns, Levi Oscar,
Edition
New ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Eaton & Mains,
Date of Publication
1914.
Physical Description
268 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 247-257.
The author was born in Columbia,Pa and is a descendant of Swiss immigrants who in the early 18th century came to live in Lancaster County, Pa.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Swiss in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802812 K96
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Original patentees of land at Washington prior to 1700

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Author
Gahn, Bessie Wilmarth Brown,
Date of Publication
1936.
Call Number
975 G136
Responsibility
by Bessie Wilmarth Gahn.
Author
Gahn, Bessie Wilmarth Brown,
Place of Publication
[Silver Spring, Md
Publisher
Printed by Westland]
Date of Publication
1936.
Physical Description
85 p. maps. 24 cm.
Notes
Foreword includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Land titles - Washington (D.C.)
Land grants - Maryland.
Land grants - Virginia.
Maryland - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Washington (D.C.) - History.
Maryland - Genealogy.
Virginia - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975 G136
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Forges and furnaces in the province of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1914.
Call Number
671.33 C734
Responsibility
prepared by the Committee on historical research.
Corporate Author
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for the Society,
Date of Publication
1914.
Physical Description
vii, 204 p. illus. 25 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania society of the colonial dames of America. III
Subjects
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
671.33 C734
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Call Number
Book 841 1792
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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, in Fifth-Street.,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Physical Description
100 p. ; 33 cm (fol.)
Notes
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 841 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index: pages 93-100.
English short title catalogue,
Evans, C. American bibliography,
Subjects
United States. - Congress. - Senate - Periodicals.
United States. - Congress. - Senate.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutional law - United States.
Legislation - United States - Periodicals.
Constitutional law.
Constitutions.
Legislation.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Constitutional period, 1789-1809 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Periodicals.
Sources.
Half leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Otis, Samuel Allyne,
Fenno, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 841 1792
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The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path

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Author
Hanna, Charles A.
Date of Publication
1911.
Call Number
974.8028 H243
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Responsibility
with some new annals of the old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones, by Charles A. Hanna ... with eighty maps and illustrations.
Author
Hanna, Charles A.
Place of Publication
New York, London
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's sons,
Date of Publication
1911.
Physical Description
2 v. fronts., plates, maps (part fold.) facsim. 25 cm.
Notes
"Of this work one thousand copies have been printed from type, and the type destroyed."
Contents
Chapters in volume 1: The debatable land // The Iroquoians of the Susquehanna // The Petticoat indians of Petticoat land // The Shawnees // The early traders of Conestoga, Donegal and Paxtang // The young red man goes west // The Shamokin traders and the Shamokin Path // Andrew Montour, the "Half Indian" // The Frankstown Path // The Raystown Path // The traders at Allegheny on the main path; with some annals of Kittanning and Chartier's Town // The Ohio Mingoes of the White River and the Wendats // Kuskuskies on the the Beaver // Logstown on the Ohio.
Chapters in volume 2: George Croghan , the king of the traders // The Ohio Valley before the white man came // The Lower Shanee town; or Chillicothe on the Ohio // The Chonchake Route and other Ohio paths // John Finley and Kentucky before Boone // Pickawillany Path // The Indian trade and Pennsylvania traders // The perils of the path.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Ohio River Valley - History - To 1795.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 H243
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Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their remote ancestors, from the middle of the Dark Ages, down to the time of the Revolutionary War; an authentic history from original sources ... with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other nonresistant sects

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1917.
Call Number
289.7 E75
  1 website  
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
1917.
Physical Description
2 p. ø., 386 p. 25 cm.
Subjects
Swiss - Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
289.7 E75
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The life of Thaddeus Stevens; a study in American political history, especially in the period of the civil war and reconstruction

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Author
Woodburn, James Albert,
Date of Publication
[c1913]
Call Number
923.2 S846wo
Responsibility
by James Albert Woodburn.
Author
Woodburn, James Albert,
Place of Publication
Indianapolis
Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill company
Date of Publication
[c1913]
Physical Description
620 p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.
United States - Politics and government - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1869.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 S846wo
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Pennsylvania beginnings in the colony of New Sweden : remarks by Hon. C. Hale Sipe, Litt. D., before the Pennsylvania Senate, April 13, 1937

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Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Date of Publication
1937.
Call Number
974.8013 S618
Author
Sipe, C. Hale
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg?]
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Commission,
Date of Publication
1937.
Physical Description
[9] p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [9])
Subjects
Swedes - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8013 S618
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The first white man in Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County

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Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1913.
Gilmary Shea. Charles A. Hanna, Win- ser's Narrative and Critical History of America, and especially in Mr. Will- shire Butterfield's sketch of Brulé's explorations may be consulted. Of the French and Champlain it has been truly said: "Long before the ice-coated plains of Plymouth listened to the rugged
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Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1913.
Physical Description
5-36 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 1
Subjects
Brule, Etienne, - 1595-1632.
Iroquois Indians
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
America - Discovery and exploration - French.
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