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]
xix, 256 p. : ill., col. coat of arms, facsims., geneal. table, port. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Summary
The book is a genealogical history of the LeFevre family in America. As Huguenots, the family was persecuted in France and many were killed. Isaac Lefevres of 1669 escaped to America and settled in Strasburg Township.
"A monthly magazine, embracing every department of literature embellished with original engravings, and music arranged for the piano-forte, harp and guitar."
Description based on: Vol. 11 (May 1839); title from caption.
Lancaster County Historical Society has 1842 only.
Appendix 1 : Founding members of the High German Church ; Appendix 2 : Members of the High German Church who were arrested for distrubing the peace during the riot on January 17, 1835. Charges were brought by Carl Schaeffer and George Milligsach, elders of the High German Church ; Appendix 3 : Pastors and members of the vestry of Zion Lutheran Church during its peak years in the late nineteenth century.
"On April 17, 1865, eighteen year old John Rakestraw left the family farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, to attend Unionville Academy, a small Quaker boarding school in Chester County. During the time he was away his two older sisters wrote to him regularly. Ten of those letters have survived and they provide a candid and often painfully honest glimpse of life on a Lancaster County farm in the 1860's. Diaries and ledgers kept by John's father, William I. Rakestraw , provide additional insight into that that time and place." [excerpt from the text]
"May God have mercy on the deeply affected congregation" : the divisive 1825 language dispute at Lancaster's Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
