A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art. Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons
Visitation of American vessels by officers of the British navy : message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information in reference to reported acts of visitation by officers of the British navy of American vessels in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information in reference to reported acts of visitation by officers of the British navy of American vessels in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Report of the trial of Castner Hanway for treason, in the resistance of the execution of the Fugitive slave law of September 1850. Before Judges Grier and Kane, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Held at Philadelphia in November and December, 1851. To which is added an Appendix, containing the laws of the United States on the subject of fugitives from labor, the charges of Judge Kane to the grand juries in relation thereto, and a statement of the points of law decided by the court during the trial
The charge was in connection with an attempt to arrest Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, Joshua Hammond, and George Hammond on a warrant issued under the Fugitive slave law, claiming them as slaves of Edward Gorsuch of Maryland.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
A pioneer church of the United Brethren in Christ in the upper end of York County : a history of Salem or "Stone Church" from, its beginning, 1844, to 1908
Bound with LCHS volume with title: York County pamphets.
Bound with: Inundation of York, Penn'a : a graphic description of the great flood, with an account of the violent rain storm of June 25, 1884 / by F. L. Spangler ; Historic St. John's : centennial sermon preached in St. John's Episcopal Church, York, Pa. / Arthur Chilton Powell ; Frederick Valentine Melsheimer : a pioneer entomologist , and a noted clergyman and author / by George R. Prowell ; Proceedings and collections of the Historical Society of York County v. 1 : York in its relation to the revolution ; Historical citizen : career of Phineas Davis, the noted inventor / by John C. Jordan ; Thirtieth annual catalogue...York Collegiate academic year 1902 - 1903.
Souvenir program of the one hundredth anniversary of the First M. E. Church, Lancaster, Pa.: and a condensed history of the church from the organization of the first class in 1897, to the present date, Oct 13, 1907
Map showing location and date of the earliest highways leading from the Delaware and Schulkill Rivers to the Susquehanna River and it's branches / by H. Frank Eshleman
Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface
The army and navy of America : containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War : independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea : enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes and embellished with engravings
Pennsylvania at Antietam : report of the Antietam Battlefield Memorial Commission of Pennsylvania and ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the position of Thirteen of the Pennsylvania Commands engaged in the battle
The life of Rev. Michael Schlatter; with a full account of his travels and labors among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia; including his services as chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the war of the revolution. 1716 to 1790
"A true history of the real condition of the destitute congregations in Pennsylvania, by Michael Schlatter" (a translation of Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pennsylvanien ... Amsterdam, 1751): p. 87-234.
Reverend Michael Schlatter was a minister of the German Reformed church who came to America to serve German immigrants. He was pastor in churches in Germantown and Philadelphia, and he also made missionary tours among the German Reformed settlers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York State.
