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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4508
Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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Responsibility
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Author
Jones, U. J.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
c1940]
Physical Description
440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers.
First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.
Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19365
Author
Neff, Jacob K.
Date of Publication
1856.
Call Number
090 L244p 1856
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Army & Navy of America
Responsibility
by Jacob K. Neff.
Author
Neff, Jacob K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
John H. Pearsol,
Date of Publication
1856.
Physical Description
viii, 687 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Military art and science - United States
United States - History, Military - To 1900.
United States - History, Naval - To 1900.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 L244p 1856
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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227
Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Place of Publication
Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
[6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;
Notes
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Subjects
Stoves.
Stove-plates.
Christian art and symbolism.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634 to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line: the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present time ... For the use of schools

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20682
Author
McSherry, James,
Date of Publication
1852.
Call Number
975.2 B197 1852
  1 website  
Responsibility
By James McSherry, esq.
Author
McSherry, James,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
J. Murphy & Co.; Cushings & Bailey [etc]
Date of Publication
1852.
Physical Description
418 pages 20 cm
Notes
Lists of Maryland officers in service during the revolution, 1776-1781: p. 381-393.
Discarded from the Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Lancaster, :Pa.
Subjects
Maryland. - Militia.
Maryland - History.
Untied States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Regimental histories.
History.
Annotations (Provenance)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
975.2 B197 1852
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Battles of the United States, by sea and land: embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war: with important official documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo691
Author
Dawson, Henry B.
Date of Publication
[1858]
Call Number
973 D272
  2 websites  
Responsibility
By Henry B. Dawson. Illustrated from original paintings by Alonzo Chappel.
Author
Dawson, Henry B.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Johnson, Fry, and Company,
Date of Publication
[1858]
Physical Description
5 v. fronts., plates, ports. 28 cm.
Notes
Title pages, preface, and content for the 2v. issue bound at the end of division 5.
LCHS has vols. 1 and 2 only.
Summary
Volume I - Covers the Revolutionary War from Lexington to Yorktown surrender
Volume II - Begins with the defeat of General Harman by native Americans in the Ohio Territory in 1790 and concludes with General Scott's campaign in 1847 in the Mexican War.
Subjects
Battles - United States.
United States - History, Military.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973 D272
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The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15647
Author
Belcher, Joseph,
Date of Publication
1857.
Call Number
277.3 P544 1857
  1 website  
Author
Belcher, Joseph,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
J.E. Potter,
Date of Publication
1857.
Physical Description
1024 p. illus., ports. 25 cm.
Notes
This volume includes discussions of the 1857 understanding of Judaism , Paganism , "Mohammedanism ;" and a multitude of sects within the major Protestant sect
"The Religious world is divided into denominations, each of which is distinguished by sentiments peculiar to itself. To delineate the nature, point out the foundation, and appreciate the tendency of every individual opinion, would be an endless task. Our design in this volume has been to describe the leading tenets of the several religions of our own country. From such a task we think two great advantages may be secured. The one is to show the truth of Bishop Watson's opinion, that a "Great lesson which every sect, and every indi vidual of every sect, ought to learn from the history of the church is Moderation." "The other advantage to be derived from a volume like this is, that when we oppose any sect from which we differ, we may at least be acquainted with the history and principles against which we argue."
Subjects
Ephrata Cloister.
Sects - United States.
Mennonites.
Amish.
Church statistics - United States.
United States - Church history.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
277.3 P544 1857
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Pioneer life; or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome, fifteen years interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake, Chiefs of the Allegany River

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21750
Author
Tome, Philip,
Date of Publication
1854
Call Number
[online resource- click link in record]
  1 website  
Author
Tome, Philip,
Place of Publication
Buffalo, NY
Publisher
"Published for the author"
Date of Publication
1854
Physical Description
238 p. 23cm.
Contents
Chapters: Parentage and early life / Hunting the elk / Capturing a live elk / Face of the country / Danger from rattlesnakes / Wolf and deer hunting / Another elk hunt / Elk hunting on the Susquehannah / Nature habits, and manner of hunting the elk / Elk and bear hunting in winter / Hunting on the Clarion River / Hunting and trapping / The bear-its nature and habits / Hunting deer at different seasons / Nature and habits of the panther, wolf and fox / Rattlesnakes and their habits / Distinguished lumbermrn, &C. / Reminiscences of cornplanter / Indian eloquence
Summary
"I was born March 22d, 1782, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, near where the city of Harrisburg now stands. My parents were both of German extraction. They moved up the Susquehannah River about ninety miles in 1786, traveling in a keel boat, there being no roads or other mode of conveyance. They landed at a place called Farris Creek in what was then Northumberland county, and remained there about four months, when the Six Nations of Indians began to trouble the inhabitants on the west branch of the Susquehannah."
Subjects
Hunting - Pennsylvania.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources
Call Number
[online resource- click link in record]
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Boyd's Lancaster county business directory. The names of the citizens of Lancaster: state, county, and city record; and an appendix of much useful information. 1859-60

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16988
Date of Publication
[1859]
Call Number
917.4815 D598 1859-60
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Responsibility
Comp. by William H. Boyd ...
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Penn
Publisher
Sprenger and Westhaeffer, 44 North Queen
Date of Publication
[1859]
Physical Description
316 p. illus. 20 cm.
Subjects
Directories.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
917.4815 D598 1859-60
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Journal from Boston to the western country and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans

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Author
Richardson, William,
Date of Publication
1940.
Call Number
917.3 R521
  1 website  
Responsibility
by William Richardson, 1815-1816.
Author
Richardson, William,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Priv. print. for Vale pilot corporation,
Date of Publication
1940.
Physical Description
2 p., 40 p. port., 4 facsim., fold. map. 25 cm.
Notes
"These excerpts from ... [the author's] 'Journal' are now published for the first time by courtesy of his great-grandson, Mr. Lawrence Richardson of Boston."--Foreword signed: William Bell Wait.
"Limited edition ... no. 80 [and] 398."
Description of travel from Philadelphia to Ohio (p. 3 - 7).
Subjects
United States - Description and travel.
Mississippi River - Description and travel.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Additional Author
Wait, William Bell,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.3 R521
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History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1470
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1943]
Call Number
973.4 B655
  1 website  
Responsibility
Sol Bloom, Director General.
Corporate Author
United States.
Place of Publication
[Washington
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
Date of Publication
1943]
Physical Description
x, 885 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Formation of the Union under the constitution.
Summary
The book was written as part of the National celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.
Subjects
United States.
United States - Constitutional history.
United States - Politics and government.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.4 B655
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