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The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence: letters of the Franks family, 1733-1748

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Author: Franks, Abigail,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 929 F834f

Responsibility: Edited by Leo Hershkowitz and Isidore S. Meyer.

Author: Franks, Abigail,

Place of Publication: Waltham, Mass

Publisher: American Jewish Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: xxxv, 171 p. illus., facsim., geneal. tables, maps, ports. (1 col.) 26 cm.

Series: Studies in American Jewish history ;

Notes: Thirty-four letters written by the author to her son, Naphtali Franks.; Bibliography: p. 145-158.

Subjects: Franks, Abigail, - 1696-1756.; Franks family.; Franks, Abigail, - 1696-1756 - Correspondence.; Jews - New York (State) - New York

Additional Author: Franks, Naphtali,; Hershkowitz, Leo,; Meyer, Isidore S.,; Friedman, Lee Max,

Additional Corporate Author: American Jewish Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 F834f

Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830

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Author: Davis, Richard Beale.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 917.55 D263

Author: Davis, Richard Beale.

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: x, 507 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Notes: "Bibliography and notes": p. [439]-482.

Contents: Chapters: Formal Education // Reading and Libraries // Religion // Agrarian Economy // Science // Fine Arts // Literature // Law and Oratory // Politics and Economics

Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826 - Homes and haunts - Virginia.; American literature - Virginia; Virginia - Intellectual life - 19th century.; Virginia - Intellectual life - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.55 D263

Psalms and hymns adapted to public worship, and approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

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Date of Publication: 1830.

Call Number: 245.2 P544p 1830

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published for the General Assembly by Solomon Allen, no. 18 S. Third Street, and for sale by the booksellers generally.,

Date of Publication: 1830.

Physical Description: 596 p. ; 14 cm.

Notes: Without music.; Copyright July 30, 1830 by Ezra Stiles Ely.; "Stereotyped by L. Johnson."--Title page verso.; Includes indexes.; From the collections of the Heritage Center P00.35.1.; Pasted after flyleaf on ivory paper:" Eliza Jane/ Moorhead/ 1838/ E. Siener."; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Moorhead, Eliza Jane.; Kenyon, W. W.; Presbyterians; Presbyterians.; Hymns.; Hymnals.; Psalters - 1830.; Leather bindings (Binding); Gold tooled bindings (Binding); Personalized bindings (Binding); Bookplates (Provenance)

Additional Author: Allen, Solomon,; Johnson, Lawrence,; Ely, Ezra Stiles,

Additional Corporate Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 245.2 P544p 1830

Speech of Mr. Frelinghuysen on the removal of the deposites : delivered in the Senate of the United States, January, 1934

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Author: Frelinghuysen, Theodore,

Date of Publication: 1834.

Call Number: 815 P769 # 4

Author: Frelinghuysen, Theodore,

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: Printed by Gales and Seaton,

Date of Publication: 1834.

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Bank of the United States (1816-1836) - Speeches in Congress.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 4

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

2, Insert 6 Correspondence Letter. Vina [ ___ ], Johnson City, New York, to Maria Hobson, Van Etten, New York. Informs sister of John’s death from bronchial pneumonia. Includes date and location of funeral. 3 March 1931. Envelope. Addressed to Maria Hobson. Later annotation. Postmarked 3 March 1931

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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The genealogy of Rev. W. H. Van Deusen (son of Jacob Dean Van Deusen and Julia Maria Custer McIntosh Van Deusen) and Custer, Hendrickson, Belton, Chelf, Evans and Stayton families

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Author: Pratt, Cherry Laura Van Deusen.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Call Number: 929 V246p

Author: Pratt, Cherry Laura Van Deusen.

Place of Publication: Rockford, Ohio

Publisher: Rockford Press

Date of Publication: [1969]

Physical Description: 83 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Subjects: Van Deusen family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 V246p

Speech of Mr. Buchanan, on the bill imposing additional duties, as depositories in certain cases, on public officers : delivered in Senate U.S. September 29, 1837

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Author: Buchanan, James,

Date of Publication: 1837.

Call Number: 923.173 B918bs

Author: Buchanan, James,

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Printed at the Globe Office,

Date of Publication: 1837.

Physical Description: 22 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Deals chiefly with the currency question and the re-establishment of a national bank.

Subjects: Currency question - United States.; Independent treasury - Speeches in Congress.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918bs

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

Adam Reigart, Jr. He was awakened by the town bell – the home of Edward Pennington was on fire. Because Aunt lives next door, he made all possible speed to the scene. The house was destroyed and the cause of the fire unknown. 21 September 1805. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart. Mary Wager is

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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The doctrine of the new birth, : exemplified in the life and religious experience of Onesimus, from the eleventh to the twenty-fifth year of his age, or from the year 1779 to 1793, inclusive. : Also, the visions which he saw concerning the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the days when George Washington was the president of the United States of North America, and in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1792. The visions with several of the special events of his life shall be illustrated with twenty plates, and the whole designed as a defence of the truth of the Gospel, and proof of the immortality of the human soul. Written in twenty letters, and dedicated to Elder Joseph Maylin. Onesimus

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Author: Hewson, John,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

Author: Hewson, John,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by William F. Rackliff. Corner of George and Swanwick streets.,

Date of Publication: 1839.

Physical Description: 164 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Copyright 1839 by John Hewson.; Error in paging: p. 84 misnumbered 48.; Missing title page through page 2.; Yellow fever in Philadelphia page 156.; Checklist Amer. imprints

Subjects: Immortality.; Yellow fever - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Visions.; Authority; Yellow fever.; Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Half-cloth bindings (Binding) - 1839.; Letters.; Allegories.

Additional Author: Maylim, Joseph.; Rackliff, William F.,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 248 P544 1839

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The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence: letters of the Franks family, 1733-1748

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3126

Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo753

Psalms and hymns adapted to public worship, and approved by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

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Speech of Mr. Frelinghuysen on the removal of the deposites : delivered in the Senate of the United States, January, 1934

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The genealogy of Rev. W. H. Van Deusen (son of Jacob Dean Van Deusen and Julia Maria Custer McIntosh Van Deusen) and Custer, Hendrickson, Belton, Chelf, Evans and Stayton families

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Speech of Mr. Buchanan, on the bill imposing additional duties, as depositories in certain cases, on public officers : delivered in Senate U.S. September 29, 1837

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