A discourse on the life and character of Francis R. Shunk, late governor of Pennsylvania : delivered, August 9, 1848, at the request of a committee of the citizens of Harrisburg
A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
"The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.
Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Evans
Summary
This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]
A sketch of the life and character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D. D. near sixty years pastor of the churches of Buffalo and Alamance. Including two of his sermons; some account of the Regulation, together with the revolutionary ... incidents in which he was concerned; and a very brief notice of the ecclesiastical and moral condition of North-Carolina while in its colonial state
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
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.
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
An essay on the nature and laws of uses and trusts. Including a treatise on conveyences at common law ; and those deriving their effect from the statute of uses. By Francis Williams Sanders, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn
Letter from the secretary of state, enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the Mint : exhibiting the state of that establishment, and shewing the necessity of some further legislative provisions to render it more efficient and secure. : 14th December 1795, committed to the committee of the whole House, on the state of the union
Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCV. [1795]
Physical Description
14 pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes
The directors were Henry William De Saussure and Elias Boudinot.
Signatures: [A]â´ Bâ´ (B4 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address &c. recommendations to the states, bhy the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelpbia: printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783 -- An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney General against John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Commons : tried in the Court of King's-Bench Westminister, on Wednesday, the ninth of December 1789 : before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England
"Argument in support of the rights of juries" by the Hon. T. Erskine: p. [121]-228.
Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.
LC copy wanting the [16] p. of advertisements called for in ESTC.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS copy has bound between pages121 and 122: The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday, August the Sixth, 1784...London: H. Goldney, 1874.
With: Briton. Four letters on the subject of Mr. Stockdale's trial for a supposed libel on the House of Commons ... London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1790. Bound together subsequent to publication?
