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.
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Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. : Volume XIV
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--Page 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--Page 478.
Report of a committee 21 pages printed by William Hamilton.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Full tooled leather binding with maroon title on spine.
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--p. 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--p. 478.
Copy 1 "Jacob Weaver 1827" and Copy 2 inscribed "Amos Slaymaker" on cover.
Journal of the Senate, of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-third. : Volume XIX
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-fourth. : Volume XX
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and four
. - Report of the Register-General on the state of the finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the first deay of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, until the thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and four--both days inclusive Lancasater: printed by M'Dowell & Greear 1804. -Receipts and expenditures \in the treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, to the thirtied of Novembaer, one thousand eight hundred and fourm, indclusive. Lancasater: Printed by Burnside and Smith, 1804.
Jasper Yeats's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 27 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Full leather tooled binding with maroon spine label.
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six
Includes appendix [27p.]- To the Senate and House of Representatiaves of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the memorial of the president and directors of the Bank of Pennsylvania [12 p.] -Memorial of the several insurance companies of the state of Pennsylvania, February. 6, 1807 [13 p.].
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced on Tuesday, the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, on Wednesday the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-fifth. : Volume XI
Printed by William Hamilton, Franklin's Head, West King-Street, Lancaster.,
Date of Publication
1800 [i.e. 1801]
Physical Description
356, 19 66, 13-21, [1] pages ; (fol.)
Notes
Through Feb. 27, 1801.
"Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the twenty-ninth of November, 1800--both days inclusive."--66 p., 2nd count, with separate title page, dated 1800. Also issued separately (Evans 38219).
"Report of the comptroller general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--6 p., 3rd count, with separate title page, dated 1800. Also issued separately (Evans 38221).
"Report of the register general, of the state of the finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the year 1800"--16, 13-21 p., 4th count, with separate title page, dated 1800. Also issued separately? (Not in Evans.).