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The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow in North Tarrytown, New York; a record of the early gravestones and their inscriptions

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Author: Perry, William Graves,

Date of Publication: 1953.

Call Number: 974.727 T192

Author: Perry, William Graves,

Place of Publication: [Boston]

Date of Publication: 1953.

Physical Description: 175 p. illus., fold. map. 23 cm.

Notes: "Privately printed as a contribution ... to the permanent records of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, New York."; "In 1926 the History Research Society of the Tappan Zee had published ... 'The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow' ... a partial record."

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - New York (State) - Tarrytown.; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (North Tarrytown, N.Y.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.727 T192

Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

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Date of Publication: 1792.

Call Number: Book 666 1792

Alternate Title: Conductor generalis; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor; Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace

Responsibility: compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed for Robert Campbell,

Date of Publication: 1792.

Physical Description: xv, 464 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: A-2Gâ¸.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbr 666 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans; Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,

Subjects: Justices of the peace - Early works to 1800.; Sheriffs - Early works to 1800.; Coroners - Early works to 1800.; Constables - Early works to 1800.; Jury - Early works to 1800.; Internal revenue law - United States - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - New York (State) - Early works to 1800.; Constables.; Coroners.; Fines and recoveries.; Internal revenue law.; Jury.; Justices of the peace.; Militia.; Sheriffs.; United States - Militia - Early works to 1800.; New York (State); Pennsylvania.; United States.; Early works.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Parker, James,; Gentleman of the law.; Burn, Richard,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 666 1792

Sardi's, the story of a famous restaurant

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Author: Sardi, Vincent,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: 1953

Call Number: 642.5 S244

Responsibility: by Vincent Sardi, Sr., and Richard Gehman.

Author: Sardi, Vincent,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Holt

Date of Publication: 1953

Physical Description: 244 p. port. 22 cm.

Summary: The co-author, Richard Gehman, was a native of Lancaster County, PA.

Notes: Richard Boyd Gehman (May 20, 1921 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania- died May 13, 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American author of five novels and 15 nonfiction books, as well as more than 3,000 magazine articles, including over 400 features.[1] Gehman wrote under many different pen names, such as Meghan Richards, Frederick Christian, Martin Scott, Michael Robinson and F.C. Uffelman.[2]Gehman attended McCaskey High School in Lancaster, and worked on several daily newspapers in Lancaster before joining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He served four years as a writer for The Oak Ridge Times in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began freelancing for Esquire, Life, Time, Cosmopolitan, Colliers, Argosy, True, Saga, and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Gehman was an original Contributing Editor at Playboy.Gehman's circle of friends included many well-known American writers, editors, painters, and actors, including Robert Frost, Joseph Heller, E.B. White, Roger Angell, Jackson Pollack, Diane Arbus, Howard Memerov, Estelle Parsons, Jerry Lewis, Maurice Zolotow, Charlotte Zolotow, Morton Thompson and Anthony Hecht, among others. [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Sardi's, New York.; Restaurants - New York.; Cookery, American.

Additional Author: Gehman, Richard,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 642.5 S244

Mount Joy Centennial Map A map of the Borough of Mount Joy Lancaster Co., Pa

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Date of Publication: 1951.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB 101

Responsibility: Published for the proprietor by J. D. Scott.

Place of Publication: Mount Joy, Pa

Publisher: issued by the Centennial Map Committee in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mount Joy Borough,

Date of Publication: 1951.

Physical Description: 1 map ; 43 x 56 cm.

Notes: Includes pictures of 6 buildings. Includes landowners' names. Inset of 1858 census data.; Original version : A map of the borough of Mount Joy Township / by J. R. Hoffer. Philadelphia : J. D. Scott, 1858.

Subjects: Landowners - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy - Maps.; Real property - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy - Maps.; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB 101

American colonial painting: materials for a history

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Author: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: 759.13 B432

Author: Belknap, Waldron Phoenix,

Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: xxi, 377 p. ports., coats of arms, facsims. 28 cm.

Notes: "Catalogue of prints and paintings": p. 279-322.; Bibliographical footnotes.

Subjects: Portrait painting - United States; Portrait-painters, American.; New York (State) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Sellers, Charles Coleman,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.13 B432

James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

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Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Date of Publication: 1952.

" l James Buchanan, Big Wheel of the Railroads BY OLIVER S. SPROUT While much has been written concerning the early development of our railroads; two local men appear as having been slighted in the roles they filled as railroad builders. Their advancement of land transport techniques would have

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Responsibility: by Oliver S. Sprout.

Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1952.

Physical Description: [21]-34 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 56, no. 2

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad (Pa.); Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company (Pa.); Pennsylvania Railroad.; Canals - Pennsylvania

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 56, number 2 (1952), p. 21-34Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.56

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John W. Forney, journalist and politician

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Author: Dowdell, George R.

Date of Publication: 1951

characteristic which appears to have stuck with him throughout his life. He jumped into things with both feet. He was only twenty years old and writing his first letter to the then U. S. Senator James Buchanan. But that did not stop Forney from recommending another young man for a position. The letter also would

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Responsibility: by George R. Dowdell.

Author: Dowdell, George R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1951

Physical Description: [49]-67 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 2

Subjects: Forney, John W. - 1817-1881.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Journalists.; Politics, Practical.; Politicians - Pennsylvania.; United States - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 2 (1951), p. 49-67Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55

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James Buchanan and public office : an appraisal

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Author: Carlson, Robert Eugene

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.81

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Responsibility: by Robert E. Carlson.

Author: Carlson, Robert Eugene

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: pp. 255-279 ; 23 cm.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.81 (1957); Discusses Buchanan's public service, and particularly his position on being nominated for the presidency over several years.; This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.81

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/41283/41004

Orange street

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Author: Reninger, Marion Wallace,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413o

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Responsibility: Marion Wallace Reninger.

Author: Reninger, Marion Wallace,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Rudisill & co.,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Physical Description: 82 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: Chapters : " Panorama " --- " Peggy Shippen " --- " Properties " --- "Processions " --- " Presidential Romance " --- " People " --- "Prisoner and Counterfeiter " --- " Philanthropists "

Summary: The book is written about an old street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on which many historic and interesting events took place - from before the Revolutionary War up to the present time. This series of sketches recounts stories of national interest as well as local tradition. [from the foreward]

Subjects: Kepler family.; North family.; Shand family.; Kendig, William.; Arnold, Margaret Shippen; Shippen family.; Passmore, John.; Andre, John.; Marshall, Christopher.; Coleman, Ann; Jacobs, William.; Reilly, Richard M.; Smith, Amos Herr.; Henry, Ann Wood.; Stevens, Thaddeus; Buchanan, James; Hensel, W. U.; Rettew, Mary; Long, Catherine.; Williamson, Henry S.; Watt, Peter T.; Orange Street (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster (Pa.) - Streets.; Memoirs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413o

Websites

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James Buchanan and Ann Coleman

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Author: Klein, Philip Shriver,

Date of Publication: 1955

gave him that kink or twist in his neck, which he carries to this day." 4 When he saw this article, Mr. Buchanan said that he hoped one of his New York friends would horsewhip Bennett or "the vile and despicable wretch" who had written the story.5 At the time of Buchanan,s death another series of

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Responsibility: by Philip Shriver Klein.

Author: Klein, Philip Shriver,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1955

Physical Description: 1-20 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 59, no. 1

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Coleman, Ann Caroline, - 1796-1819.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 59, number 1 (1955), p. 1-20Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.59

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The old Dutch burying ground of Sleepy Hollow in North Tarrytown, New York; a record of the early gravestones and their inscriptions

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2909

Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21732

Sardi's, the story of a famous restaurant

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13119

Mount Joy Centennial Map A map of the Borough of Mount Joy Lancaster Co., Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo695

American colonial painting: materials for a history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8229

James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo916

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John W. Forney, journalist and politician

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3317

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James Buchanan and public office : an appraisal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11523

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Orange street

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1347

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James Buchanan and Ann Coleman

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1825

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