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The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7734
Author
Hotten, John Camden,
Date of Publication
1980.
Call Number
929.3 H834
Responsibility
edited by John Camden Hotten.
Author
Hotten, John Camden,
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Publisher
Genealogical Pub.,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
xxxii, 580 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
British - America
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
United States - Genealogy - Sources.
Great Britain - Emigration and immigration.
Barbados - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Public Record Office.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.3 H834
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The American loyalists; or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution; alphabetically arranged; with a preliminary historical essay

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1156
Author
Sabine, Lorenzo,
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
973.314 S116
Responsibility
By Lorenzo Sabine.
Author
Sabine, Lorenzo,
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
C.C. Little and J. Brown,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
1 p.l., v, 733 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Published in 1864 under title: Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution.
Subjects
American loyalists.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.314 S116
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"Pennsylvania medical men of the American Revolution and era" : a history of the Revolution and era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1469
Author
Wright, Karl Eugene.
Date of Publication
1981.
Call Number
973.375 W951

Historical collections of the State of Pennsylvania : containing a copious selection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, both general and local, with topographical descriptions of every county and all the larger towns in the state

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3431
Author
Day, Sherman,
Date of Publication
[1843]
Call Number
974.8009 D275
Responsibility
by Sherman Day ; illus. by 165 engravings.
Author
Day, Sherman,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : New Haven
Publisher
G. W. Gorton ; Durrie and Peck,
Date of Publication
[1843]
Physical Description
708 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8009 D275
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised : with Canne's marginal notes and references. To which are added, an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins, & c. /ss²c stereotyped by E. White, New York

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19886
Date of Publication
1840.
Call Number
220 S559 1840
Alternate Title
Holy bible.
New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Kimber and Sharpless,
Date of Publication
1840.
Physical Description
4, 6, 5-570, 112, 2 leaves, 573-770, 56. : ss²b plates, maps ; ss²c 29 cm.
Notes
At head of title: Kimber and Sharpless Ì₃stereotype edition.
Plates (in part, including half-title for each Testament) are "engravings by Charles Heath from the designs of Richard Westall."
"Apocrypha" (112 p.) inserted after Old Testament.
Two blank pages for "Family record" at end of Apocrypha.
Viewing of bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
From the Collection of the Heritage Center Collection, P47.4.2.
Shoff family bible.
Geneaolgy of Frederick Shoff, Senior, famiy (1774-1843) and Isabella Shoff (1790-1851)
Other genealogical materal in Heritage Center file.
Bound with : A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments / John Brown. Philadelphia : Kimber and Sharpless, [1835?].
Full leather binding with maroon and gilt spine title housed in a walnut Bible box with slide closure resembling a Bible.
Subjects
Shoff, Frederick, - Sr., - 1774-1843.
Shott, Isabella, - 1790-1851.
Additional Author
Canne, John,
Westall, Richard,
Heath, Charles,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 S559 1840
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18954
Author
Captain of volunteers.
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
979.4403 C254
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Responsibility
by a Captain of volunteers.
Author
Captain of volunteers.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
H. Packer & Co. ...,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
[2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.
Notes
This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.
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]
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
California - Description and travel.
California - History - 1846-1850.
Mexico, North - Description and travel.
California - Annexation to the United States.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
979.4403 C254
Websites
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Historical register of officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8087
Author
Heitman, Francis Bernard,
Date of Publication
1982.
Call Number
973.34 H473
Responsibility
by Francis B. Heitman.
ISBN
0806301767
Author
Heitman, Francis Bernard,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
698 p. ; 23cm.
Notes
"Reprint of the new, revised, and enlarged edition of 1914, with addenda by Robert H. Kelby, 1932."
Subjects
United States. - Army - Registers.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.34 H473
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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments : translated from the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised : with Canne's marginal notes and references, to which are added an index, an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations, table of scripture weights, measures, and coins, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19700
Date of Publication
1846.
Call Number
220 W742 1846
Place of Publication
Philadelphia : New York
Publisher
John B. Perry ; Nafis and Cornish,
Date of Publication
1846.
Physical Description
829, cxlvii, xxi, 56, 19 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
Notes
Includes Apocrypha; A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New testaments, by John Brown; and the Psalms of David, in metre.
Includes index.
Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
Willson family bible.
Willson and Rettew family genealogy 1779-1929 on three pages preceding New Testament.
Subjects
Willson, George, - 1799-1879.
Rettew, Mary Ann, - 1817-1886.
Willson family - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Brown, John,
Additional Title
Bible.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 W742 1846
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Index of the Rolls of honor (ancestor's index) in the Lineage books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution [volumes 1-160]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3221
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
369.135 D235i
ISBN
0806305096
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
4 v. in 2 ; 24 cm.
Notes
Reprint of v. 1-4, 1916-40.
Subjects
Daughters of the American Revolution. - Indexes.
United States - Genealogy - Indexes.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
369.135 D235i
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Mercenary troops from Anhalt-Zerbst, Germany, who served with the British forces during the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7187
Author
DeMarce, Virginia Easley,
Date of Publication
1984.
Call Number
973.342 D372
Responsibility
Virginia Easley DeMarce.
ISBN
0915162210 (pbk. : set)
Author
DeMarce, Virginia Easley,
Place of Publication
McNeal, Ariz
Publisher
Westland Publications,
Date of Publication
1984.
Physical Description
2 v. (iv, 107 p.) ; 28 cm.
Series
German-American genealogical research monograph,
Notes
LCHS has pt. 1. Surnames A through Kr.
Bibliography: p. ii.
Contents
pt. 1. Surnames A through Kr -- pt. 2. Surnames Ku through Z.
Subjects
German Americans
Registers of births, etc. - United States.
Registers of births, etc. - Germany - Anhalt Region.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
Anhalt Region (Germany) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 D372
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