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Letter

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Letter from Theodore D. Weld to Daniel Gibbons

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F012_In02

Date Range: 1838/12/25

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Collection: Black History Collection

Title: Letter from Theodore D. Weld to Daniel Gibbons

Description: Letter from Theodore D. Weld, Office of the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York to Daniel Gibbons in Enterprise, Lancaster County requesting first-hand accounts of the conditions of slavery and also information about friends, family and neighbors who have moved to or from a state that supported slavery and/or married a slaveholder. (Letter is separating at folds and a corner is missing).

Date Range: 1838/12/25

Creation Date: 25 December 1838

Creator: Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Weld, Theodore Dwight; Gibbons, Daniel

Subjects: African Americans--History; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; Letters; Slavery

Search Terms: Abolition; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; Correspondence; Letters; Persons of color; Slavery

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2022-03-28

Condition Notes: Letter is separating at folds and a corner is missing.

Object ID: MG0240_Ser02_F012_In02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Black History Collection (MG0240) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2b3d42c6-a313-4ebc-966f-516114048136

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Other Numbers: MG-240, Series 2

Other Number: MG-240, Series 2, Folder 12, Insert 2

Classification: MG0240

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Transferred from Document Collection, 15 March 2012. Added to database on 28 March 2022.; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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The political crisis of the 1850s

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19181

Author: Holt, Michael F.

Date of Publication: 1983, c1978.

Call Number: 973.6 H758

Responsibility: Michael F. Holt.

ISBN: 039395370X (pbk.); 9780393953701 (pbk.)

Author: Holt, Michael F.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1983, c1978.

Physical Description: xvii, 330 p. ; 20 cm.

Notes: Originally published: New York : Wiley, c1978.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Party dynamics and the coming of the Civil War -- The second party system in operation -- Slavery, extension and the second party system, 1843-1848 -- Dynamics of the party system and the compromise of 1850 -- The second party system undermined, 1849-1853 -- Realignment, reorganization, and reform, 1854-1856 -- Slavery, republicanism, and the triumph of the Republican Party -- Politics, slavery, and southern secession.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Compromise of 1850.; United States - Politics and government - 1845-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.6 H758

The origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

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Author: Gienapp, William E.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 324.273 G454

2 websites

Responsibility: William E. Gienapp.

ISBN: 0195041003 (alk. paper); 9780195041002 (alk. paper); 0195055012 (pbk.); 9780195055016 (pbk.)

Author: Gienapp, William E.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: xi, 564 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 449-474.

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The presidential election of 18522 -- 2. The collapse of the second party system -- 3. Nebraska and nativism -- 4. The confusion of fusion -- 5. The failure of fusion -- 6. New issues, new leaders, new organizations -- 7. Launching the republican party -- 8. The formation of a national party organization -- 9. Spring breakthrough -- 10. The nomination of FrÃ©mont -- 11. Free soil, free labor, free speech, freemen, FrÃ©mont -- 12. The FrÃ©mont campaign -- 13. A victorious defeat -- Bibliography -- Statistical appendix -- Tables -- Index.

Summary: The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.

Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) - History.; Republican Party (U.S.); Political parties - United States; Elections - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.; United States - Political parties: Republican Party (U.S.), 1852-1856

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 324.273 G454

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Blacks who stole themselves : advertisements for runaways in the Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1790

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Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 326 S643

Responsibility: [compiled by] Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.

ISBN: 0812281454

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: 222 p. : ill., facsims., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; Bibliography: p. [173]-178.

Summary: Reprints ads for runaway slaves in Pennsylvania. Includes a glossary, a name index that permits runaways and owners to be traced over time, a subject index that identifies specific characteristics of escapees, and a final index that notes the names of fugitives and owners who appeared in all the Gazette ads between 1728 and 1790. [from amazon.com]

Subjects: Fugitive slaves - United States; Slavery - United States; American newspapers - Pennsylvania; Fugitive slaves - United States.; African Americans; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.

Additional Author: Smith, Billy Gordon.; Wojtowicz, Richard.

Additional Title: Pennsylvania gazette.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 S643

Letter

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Letter from James Buchanan to James A. Caldwell

Object ID: MG0096 F004 In02 It01

Date Range: 1836/12/19

1 document 4 images

Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Letter from James Buchanan to James A. Caldwell

Description: Letter from James Buchanan to James A. Caldwell in Harrisburg. Buchanan writes about the confidence bestowed in him by the Democratic party, and that he intends to visit Lancaster and Harrisburg over the holidays. Washington, D.C.

Date Range: 1836/12/19

Creator: Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

Storage Container: Box 0001

People: Buchanan, James; Caldwell, James A.

Subjects: Personal correspondence; Letters; Democratic Party (Pa.)

Search Terms: Correspondence; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; Correspondence, Personal; Letters; Democratic Party; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 25 x 20 cm

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Parent Object ID: MG0096

Object ID: MG0096 F004 In02 It01

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Collection (MG0096) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3760; James Buchanan Family Papers; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph Collection; Curatorial Collection; Wheatland Collection; Wheatland Mansion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Number: MG-0096, Folder 004, Insert 02, Item 1

Classification: MG0096

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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Quilt

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.86.05

Date Range: 1830-1860

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Pieced quilt of silks, cotton batting, glazed cotton back, cut in 2 halves, made by Quaker Deborah Simmons Coates, wife of Lindley Coates (1794-1856). Has 19 horizontal bands of dress silks (many produced by Harmonist Community) in alternating triangles arranged in Birds in the Air or Flying Geese pattern using the template method. Large triangles of varying patterns alternate with large triangles with 3 smaller appliqued triangles of contrasting patterns. Colors are browns, tans, beiges, electric and royal blue, peach and green. Each quilt half has a green silk binding on the three outside edges, and tan silk on the inner vertical cut edge. Quilting patterns are clamshell, diamond, cross in a square and diagonals.; At quilt center is a cream-colored triangle with an abolitionist stamp depicting a kneeling enslaved Black male in chains over the words: "Deliver me from the oppression/ of man." This stamped triangle was cut in two when quilt was divided; image now hidden by modern binding. According to Cuesta Benberry research, this image of a kneeling enslaved person originated with the English ceramic firm of Wedgwood in the late 1700s. See items 08.242 and 42.76.11 in the collectiosn of Metropolitan Museum of Art for seals with a similar motif. The Wedgwood family were ardent abolitionists, decorating various ceramics with this image, resulting in its rapid adoption by American anti-slavery groups. Used in many forms and media over the years, it remains the logo of the still-existing Pennsylvania Abolition Society and appears on organization's official publications.; Lindley and Deborah Coates, of West Grove, Chester Co., married there on 12/16/1819 but lived near Christiana in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co. They attended Sadsbury Friends Meeting House near Christiana. Ardent abolitionists, their home was what is now designated station #5 on the Underground Railway. Lindley became President of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840, before William Lloyd Garrison. Deborah Coates became a Hicksite Quaker minister according to historian Beverly Wilson Palmer. Hicksites were the more radical Quakers, named after leader Elias Hicks.

Provenance: Quilt passed to son Simmons (1821-1862) & wife Emeline Jackson. (Deborah Coates lived w/ widow Emeline on her Chester Co. farm (Evergreen Hall in West Grove) for many years following Simmon's 1862 death. See census records). Descent to their daughter Elizabeth Jackson Coates who married Marriott Brosius, U.S. congressman from Lancaster. The quilt was then divided between their two daughters, donor's maternal grandmother Graceanna Brosius Biddle and her sister Gertrude Coho Reinhartson. The two halves were then reunited when given to donor, Marjorie Ayars Laidman. Deborah S. Coates was donor's great great great grandmother.

Date Range: 1830-1860

Year Range From: 1830

Year Range To: 1860

Made By: Coates, Deborah Simmons, 1801-1888

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 32

People: Coates, Deborah T. Simmons; Coates, Lindley

Subcategory: Bedding

Subject: Abolitionists; African Americans--History; Quilts; Slavery; Slavery--Pennsylvania

Search Terms: Abolitionists; Quilts; Slavery

Object Name: Quilt

Material: Cotton, Silk

Height (in): 89

Width (in): 96.5

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-05-02

Condition Notes: Overall good condition. Two halves of quilt (with recent inside binding on cut edges) are "mounted" on cotton muslin, side-by-side. Silks show significant deterioration -- cracking, splitting and abrasion -- with some losses. Binding also has deterioration with some losses. (See 1985-86 condition report by conservator Linnea Davis.); Documented in Quilt Harvest #448-B (records in Archives).

Object ID: G.86.05

Place of Origin: Sadsbury Twp.

Credit: Gift of Marjorie A. Laidman, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.86.05

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Probate

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Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Object ID: Ren 1902 F095

Date Range: 1902

Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Description: Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

Date Range: 1902

Date of Accumulation: 1762-1820, 1821-1842, 1880-1906

Year: 1902

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0020

People: Rhoads, Harvey M.; Henry, Mary; Eshbach, A. L.

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Renunciation; Slater, Saline County, Missouri

Place: Slater, Saline County, Missouri

Extent: 12 cubic feet

Object Name: Probate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Ren 1902 F095

Box Number: 020

Associated Material: Administrators Accounts; Miscellaneous Orphans' Court Papers

Additional Notes: Renouncer: Henry, Mary.; Administrator: Eshbach, A. L.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restricted use of original. A photocopy will be made for patron use.

Classification: RG 03-00 0115

Description Level: Item

The Linville family in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4643

Author: Eichholz, Alice,

Edition: 300th anniversary ed.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 929 L761e

Responsibility: by Alice Eichholz.

Author: Eichholz, Alice,

Edition: 300th anniversary ed.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Gateway Press,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: 452 p., [16] p. of plates : facsims., ports. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Linville family.; Linfield family.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; Missouri - Genealogy.; West Virginia - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 L761e

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The political crisis of the 1850s

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The origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

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Blacks who stole themselves : advertisements for runaways in the Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1790

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Probate

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The Linville family in America

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