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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands

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Author: Saffell, William Thomas Roberts,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 973.3 S128

Responsibility: By W. T. R. Saffell.

Author: Saffell, William Thomas Roberts,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: G. G. Evans,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 554 p. 20 cm.

Notes: First published 1858.

Subjects: Pensions, Military - United States; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers, lists, etc.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Additional Author: Washington, George,; Lee, Charles,; Greene, Nathanael,

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Continental Congress.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 S128

Memorandum of marriages: indentures of apprentices

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Date of Publication: 1843-1859

Call Number: 310.5 C295

Responsibility: performed by, and executed before me Michael Carpenter, Mayor of the City of Lancaster.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Date of Publication: 1843-1859

Physical Description: 129 p. : 20 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Marriage records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Apprentices - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indentured servants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Carpenter, Michael

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.5 C295

Parish register of Christ Church, Leacock, Pa

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Date of Publication: 1828-1879.

Call Number: 283 C554Le

Place of Publication: [Leacock, Pa.]

Publisher: Christ Church,

Date of Publication: 1828-1879.

Physical Description: 2, 279 l. (some blank); 23 x 35 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.; "Original records are located at St. James' Church, Lancaster, Pa."; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 246 #2.

Contents: Baptisms (Dec. 23, 1828 - June 2, 1879), pages 30-69 - Confirmations (June 12,1833 - April 9, 1873, pages 127-132 - Communicants (Dec. 25, 1828 - Alpril 17, 1878, pages 170-185 - Marriages (March 26, 1829 - June 21 1866, pages 194-197 - Marriages (June 10, 1873 - June 10, 1879), pages 198-199 - Burials (April 23, 1837 - April 20, 1872), pages 243-247 - Burials (April 26, 1873 -April 18, 1879), pages 248-249.

Subjects: Christ Episcopal Church (Leacock, Lancaster County, Pa.); Chuch records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Leacock (Township); Episcopal Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster Couinty.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 283 C554Le

Archive

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org 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

1 document

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.

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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 Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues, together with the together with the Apocryph, Concordance, and Psalms, with the former translations diligently compared and revised, the text conformable to the standard of the American BIble Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19704

Edition: Harding's fine ed.

Date of Publication: 1856.

Call Number: 220 H831 1856

Edition: Harding's fine ed.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Jesper Harding,

Date of Publication: 1856.

Physical Description: 576, 116, 579-768, 41, 22 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes: New Testament has separate title page.; Added title page in color.; Printed in double columns.; Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.; From the collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P94.7.1; Rebound by Pleasant View Book Bindery, 1997.; Genealogy of Hostetter-Harash families, 1708-1899.; Genealogy of Passmore & Eckman families, 1815-1896.; Copy of genealogy pages in the Hotetter family file.; Joseph H. McGlaughlin, 1868-1942, scrivener.

Subjects: Hostetter, John H., - 1875 - .; Harsh, Frances E., - 1970 - .; Passmore family - Genealogy.; Hostetter family - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Brown, John,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Bible

Call Number: 220 H831 1856

History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6921

Author: Smith, George,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Call Number: 974.814 S648

1 website

Responsibility: by George Smith, M.D.

Author: Smith, George,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by H.B. Ashmead,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Physical Description: vii, [1], 581, [1] p. front., plates, maps (part fold.) facsims. 22 cm.

Notes: Frontispiece (map) wanting.

Subjects: Natural history - Pennsylvania - Delaware County.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.814 S648

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t8cg0g77j;view=1up;seq=9

Names of persons who took the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, between the years 1777 and 1789, with a history of the "Test laws" of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4124

Author: Westcott, Thompson.

Date of Publication: 1865.

Call Number: 974.80293 W524

Responsibility: By Thompson Westcott.

Author: Westcott, Thompson.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J. Campbell,

Date of Publication: 1865.

Physical Description: xlii, 145 p. 24 cm.

Notes: "Edition of 250 copies." This copy not numbered.

Subjects: Loyalty oaths - Pennsylvania.; Test law - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers, lists, etc.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80293 W524

Parish register of All Saints Church (Episcopal) Paradise, Pa., 1842-1877: Includes history, baptisms, marriages, and communicants

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Date of Publication: 1842-1877.

Call Number: 283 A416p

Place of Publication: [Paradise, Pa.]

Publisher: All Saints Church

Date of Publication: 1842-1877.

Physical Description: 3 vol.; 29 x 43 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.; Rineer"s "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 340 #3.

Subjects: All Saints Episcopal Church (Paradise, Pa.); Marriage records - Pennsylvania; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 283 A416p

The complete analysis of the Holy Bible : or, how to comprehend Holy Writ from its own interpretation, containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, collected and systematically arranged in thirty books, together with an introduction setting forth the character of the work, and the immense facility this method affords the reader for understanding the word of God. Also, three different tables of contents prefixed, a general index of subjects and a scripture index subjoined, so elaborated and arranged in alphabetical order as to direct at once to any subject required

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19610

Author: West, Nathaniel,

Date of Publication: 1868.

Call Number: 220 L493 1868

Alternate Title: Holy Bible complete and how to understand it

Responsibility: by Nathaniel West.

Author: West, Nathaniel,

Place of Publication: New York : Cleveland, Ohio

Publisher: A.J. Johnson ; F.G. & A.C. Rowe,

Date of Publication: 1868.

Physical Description: lxiv, 1097, [6] pages : maps, tables ; 27 cm

Notes: Includes indexes.; Viewing bibles contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.; Lefevre family Bible.; On inside cover and repeated on lst endpaper: "The Property of David Lefevre A. D. 1868, Price $7.50".; Affixed to back endpapers: Ancestry of Robert G. LeFevre, M. D, 1570-1899.; Half morocco binding with gold title on front and spine; gilt edges.

Subjects: Lefevre family - Genealogy.; Concordances.

Additional Title: Bible.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Bible

Call Number: 220 L493 1868

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