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
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.
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 ... Published by authority. 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 ... Published by authority
Journal of the second session of the seventh House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven
Printed by Hall & Sellers, no. 58, Market-Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCVII. [1797]
Physical Description
398,[1]62,19, [1], 19, [1], 19,[1] pages ; 31 cm.
Notes
Last session 5 April 1798.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Appendix: Accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the 1st of January to the 31st December, 1797 inclusive, Philadelphia : Printed by F & R. Bailey, 1798.--Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania, for the year 1797. Philadelphia : Printed by Francis & Robert Bailey. --Report of the Register-General of the state of the finances of Pennsylvania for the year 1707: Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1798.-- General statement of the contracts for opening and improving roads and rivers...Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1797.
