A discourse on the life and character of Francis R. Shunk, late governor of Pennsylvania : delivered, August 9, 1848, at the request of a committee of the citizens of Harrisburg
A sketch of the life and character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D. D. near sixty years pastor of the churches of Buffalo and Alamance. Including two of his sermons; some account of the Regulation, together with the revolutionary ... incidents in which he was concerned; and a very brief notice of the ecclesiastical and moral condition of North-Carolina while in its colonial state
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
The farmer's companion; or, Essays on the principles and practice of American husbandry. : With the address, prepared to be delivered before the agricultural and horticultural societies of New Haven County, Connecticut, and an appendix, containing tables and other matter useful to the farmer
"The school advertiser no. II. August, 1839."--16, 138 [i.e., 8] p. at end. Contains a prospectus and sample pages for "The School Library," published by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb.
The history of my travels : through the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey
The history of my travels : through the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey from April 7th to June 28th 1847
The experienced botanist or Indian physician, being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants--their properties, &c. and the method of preparing and using them. 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners
Report of the trial and conviction of John Haggerty, for the murder of Melchior Fordney, late of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania : In the Court of oyer & terminer, held at the city of Lancaster, for the county of Lancaster, at January term, A.D. 1847. Before the Hon. Ellis Lewis, president And Jacob Grosh and Emanuel Schaeffer ... associate justices of said court
The Mexican war and its warriors; comprising a complete history of all the operations of the American armies in Mexico; with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished officers in the regular army and volunteer force
