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Braddock's defeat; the journal of Captain Robert Cholmley's batman, the journal of a British officer [and] Halkett's orderly book

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4819
Author
Hamilton, Charles,
Edition
[1st ed.]
Date of Publication
[1959]
Call Number
923.5 B798h
Responsibility
Edited from the original MSS. with an introd. and notes.
Author
Hamilton, Charles,
Edition
[1st ed.]
Place of Publication
Norman
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Date of Publication
[1959]
Physical Description
xxi, 134 p. illus., ports., map, facsim. 24 cm.
Subjects
Braddock's Campaign, 1755.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Sources.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 B798h
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First line of defense, 1755-56 : beginnings of the frontier forts

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4546
Author
Hunter, William A.
Date of Publication
[1955?]
Call Number
974.80324 H947a
Responsibility
by William A. Hunter.
Author
Hunter, William A.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg]
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
[1955?]
Physical Description
29 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Reprinted from Pennsylvania History, Quarterly Journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Vol. XXII, no. 3, July, 1955 for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission."
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80324 H947a
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The life of Billy Yank : the common soldier of the Union

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14015
Author
Wiley, Bell Irvin,
Date of Publication
1997, c1952.
Call Number
973.715 W673
Responsibility
Bell Irvin Wiley.
ISBN
0807104760 (pbk.)
Author
Wiley, Bell Irvin,
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication
1997, c1952.
Physical Description
454 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Series
Civil War classic
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-446) and index.
Subjects
United States. - Army - Military life.
Soldiers - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.715 W673
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Swiss emigrants & Huguenots Emigrants to the Palatinate & America and Huguenots in the Palatinate and Germany (In German)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16782
Author
Macco, Hermann Friedrich,
Date of Publication
1954
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405
Alternate Title
Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800, and Huguenots in the Palatinate and German
Responsibility
information compiled by the late professor Dr. Hermann Friedrich Macco, Aachen.
Author
Macco, Hermann Friedrich,
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City
Publisher
Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [comp.],
Date of Publication
1954
Physical Description
6 vols.
Notes
Reel 404: volume 1, A-C; volume 2, D-G; volume 3, H-L
Reel 405: volume 4, M-R; volume 5, S-Z; volume 6, INDEX
Microfilm. Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of the Churgh of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1970 2 reels, 35 mm.
Subjects
Huguenots - Germany - Palatinate.
Immigrants - United States - Registers.
Registers of births, etc. - United States.
Switzerland - Emigration and immigration.
Palatinate (Germany) - Emigration and immigration.
United States - Emigration and immigration.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 4: #404 & #405
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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21067
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
Responsibility
By John Purdon, Junr.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
"Index."--p. [587]-637.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.
Annotations and citations (Law) - Pennsylvania.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutions - Pennsylvania.
Annotations and citations (Law)
Constitutions.
Law.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled leather (Binding)
Fillet tools (Binding)
Lettering pieces (Binding)
Gold tooled leather (Binding)
Digests.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Purdon, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.
United States.
Pennsylvania.
Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co.,
Fry and Kammerer,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 306 1811
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Trial of Frederick Eberle and others, at a nisi prius court, held at Philadelphia, July 1816 before the honorable Jasper Yeates, justice. For illegally conspriing together by all means lawful and unlawful ... to prevent the introduction of the English language into the service of St. Michael's and Zion's churches, belonging to the German Lutheran Congregation, in the city of Philadelphia. Taken in short hand by James Carson

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3178
Author
Eberle, Frederick.
Date of Publication
1817.
Call Number
347.973 E16
Author
Eberle, Frederick.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published for the Reporter,
Date of Publication
1817.
Physical Description
[1]-240 p. 21 cm.
Notes
Copy 2 given in honor of Mrs. Carrie Numan.
Subjects
Language question in the church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Lutheran Church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Language and languages
Lutheran Church
Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Additional Author
Carson, James.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
347.973 E16
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The passage of the President's message, which relates to the forcible occupation of West Florida, imperiously claims the attention of every American

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21212
Author
Onís, Luis de,
Date of Publication
[1810?]
Call Number
Book 461 1810c
Author
Onís, Luis de,
Place of Publication
[United States]
Publisher
[publisher not identified],
Date of Publication
[1810?]
Physical Description
20 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Title from first lines of text.
Signed at end: Verus. By Luis de Onís.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.
Yeate's signature at top of title page.
Bound with Oration on masonry: delivered at St. John's church in the city of Philadelphia, at the request of the right worshipful Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, on St. John's day, June 24, 1811, by James Milnor. Philadelphia: J. Maxwell, 1811 -- Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, exquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Shaw & Shoemaker,
Subjects
Diplomatic relations.
West Florida - History.
Louisiana - History - 1803-1865.
Spain - Foreign relations - United States.
United States - Foreign relations - Spain.
Louisiana.
Spain.
United States.
United States - West Florida.
History.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 461 1810c
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York county's historical heritage as the capital of the United States, 1777-1778 : including reproductions of the William Wagner collection of early American drawings and the Lewis Miller collection of early American folk art

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15269
Date of Publication
1959]
Call Number
974.841 Y61yh
Place of Publication
[York, Pa
Publisher
York Gazette Co.,
Date of Publication
1959]
Physical Description
39 [9] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Cover title: York county's heritage, rich in early American art and history.
Subjects
York County (Pa.) - History.
United States - Capital and capitol - Pennsylvania - York - 1777-1778.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.841 Y61yh
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Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775. Copied from a loose bundle of Treasury papers in the Public Record Office, London, England

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7315
Author
Cameron, Viola Root
Date of Publication
1959.
Call Number
974.802813 C182 (Missing 8/2015).
Author
Cameron, Viola Root
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Southern Book Co.,
Date of Publication
1959.
Physical Description
117 p. 24 cm.
Subjects
Scottish Americans.
Scotland - Emigration and immigration.
United States - Genealogy.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Public Record Office
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802813 C182 (Missing 8/2015).
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Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21218
Author
Boyd, John Parker,
Date of Publication
1816
Call Number
Book 461 1816
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Author
Boyd, John Parker,
Place of Publication
[Place of publication not identified]
Publisher
[publisher not identified],
Date of Publication
1816
Physical Description
28 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Caption title.
Defending the author's generalship.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, esquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.
Summary
The writer is a General from the War of 1812 who had suffered defeats during the war and was not chosen to remain in the Army after the war. He defends his performance in this letter.
Subjects
Boyd, John Parker, - 1764-1830.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - War of 1812 - Campaigns.
United States.
History.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 461 1816
Websites
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