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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Object ID: MG0098

Date Range: 1776-1976

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Description: The Revolutionary War Collection contains a variety of materials from and about the Revolutionary War in Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. The original records include correspondence, military pay certificates, court records, and an orderly book kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr. during the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. There are also research notes and secondary sources, including a list of prisoners of war, a list of males in Lancaster County in 1776, Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780, articles, information on soldiers buried in Lancaster County, and an article about John Paul Jones.

Date Range: 1776-1976

Creation Date: 1776-1976

Year Range From: 1776

Year Range To: 1976

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Beddulph, Robert; Boyd, John; Burd, James Edward; Chambers, Stephen; Coedans, James; Cooke, William; Ferree, John; Getty, Christian; Gurney, Francis; Hubley, Adam; Jolly, James A. "Jim"; Joy, Daniel; Kieffer, Henry Martyn; Moore, William; Neal, James; Patterson, Alex; Porter, Thomas; Ramsay, David; Rapp, Brandon; Reid, George W.; Worner, William Frederic; Zellty, John A.

Subjects: Cemeteries; Letters; Military history; Military regulations; Newtown, Battle of, Newtown, N.Y., 1779; Prisoners of war; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle of, Stony Point, N.Y., 1779; Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons

Search Terms: Battle of Newtown; Battle of Stony Point; Cemeteries; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Finding aids; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Letters; Manuscript groups; Military history; Military records; Military regulations; Prisoners of war; Receipts; Revolutionary War; Soldiers; Sullivan Campaign, 1779

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0098

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Credit: Revolutionary War Collection (MG-98), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-98

Other Number: MG-98

Classification: MG0098

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Items have been added and the finding aid has been updated since 1997.

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Lewis Evans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16217

Author: Gipson, Lawrence Henry,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Call Number: 923.9 E92 Oversize

Responsibility: by Lawrence Henry Gipson; to which is added Evans' A brief account of Pennsylvania, together with facsimiles of his Geographical, historical, political, philosophical, and mechanical essays, numbers I and II ... Also facsimiles of Evans' maps.

Author: Gipson, Lawrence Henry,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: 8 p. l., 246 p. incl. 5 maps (4 fold.) front. (fold. map) 31 cm.

Notes: "As to ... 'A brief account of Pennsylvania' which is presented herewith, two copies of this are in existence, neither of which is the original manuscript: the so-called George Fox copy, belonging to the Historical society of Pennsylvania, and the Du SimitiÃ¨re copy, possessed by the Library company of Philadelphia ... The text of the Fox copy has been followed."--Pref.

Contents: pt. 1. Early scientific activities in Pennsylvania. The mapping of the middle Atlantic region, 1749. Pennsylvania boundary disputes. The mapping of the Ohio valley in 1755. The passing of Evans and the early history of his maps.--pt. 2. A brief account of Pennsylvania, 1753.--pt. 3. Facsimile of Evans' "Analysis number I." 1755. Facsimile of Evans' "Analysis number II," 1756.--pt. 4. A map of the Indian walking purchase, 1737. A map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and the three Delaware counties, 1749. A revision of the 1732 edition of the foregoing map of 1749. Evans' Map of the middle Atlantic region drawn for Peter Kalm in 1750. A map of the area in dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1753. A general map of the middle British colonies, 1755.

Subjects: Evans, Lewis, - 1700?-1756.; Iroquois Indians.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Pennsylvania - Boundaries - Maryland.; Maryland - Boundaries - Pennsylvania.; Middle Atlantic States - Description and travel.; Ohio River Valley - Description and travel.; Middle Atlantic States - Maps.; Ohio River Valley - Maps.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.; United States - Politics and government - 1755-1763.

Additional Author: Evans, Lewis,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.9 E92 Oversize

Lebanon County in the French and Indian War. Paper read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, April 21, 1901

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18699

Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg,

Date of Publication: 1904]

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 2 no. 2

1 website

Responsibility: by Capt. H.M.M. Richards ...

Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg,

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa

Date of Publication: 1904]

Physical Description: 57-77 p. 8vo.

Notes: Excerpt: Lebanon County Historical Society. Papers and addresses. v. 2, no. 2.

Subjects: United States - History: French and Indian War, 1755-63.; Lebanon County, Pa. - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 2 no. 2

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015839&view=1up&seq=71

Loan exhibition of portraits of the signers and deputies to the convention of 1787 and signers of the Declaration of Independence : including their families and associates ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art, city of Washington, November 27, 1937, to February 1, 1938

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7607

Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Call Number: 920.073 U58

Responsibility: assembled by the United States Sesquicentennial Commission.

Corporate Author: United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.

Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1937?]

Physical Description: 173 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: United States. - Constitutional Convention - (1787) - Centennial celebrations, etc.; United States. - Signers - Portraits - Exhibitions.; United States.; Portraits, American; Statesmen - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 920.073 U58

The works of James Buchanan, comprising his speeches, state papers, and private correspondence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo970

Author: Buchanan, James,

Date of Publication: 1908-11.

Call Number: 923.173 B918m

Responsibility: collected and ed. by John Bassett Moore.

Author: Buchanan, James,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, London

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company,

Date of Publication: 1908-11.

Physical Description: 12 v. 2 front. (ports., v. 1 and 12) 25 cm.

Notes: "This letterpress edition is limited to 750 copies."

Contents: I.-XI. Speeches, state papers and correspondence, 1813-1868.-- XII. Biographical: 1. Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 1866. 2. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, by W.U. Hensel. 1908. 3. Autobiographical sketch, 1791-1828. 4. Biographical sketch, by J.B. Henry. [General] index.

Subjects: United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Additional Author: Moore, John Bassett,; Henry, James Buchanan.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918m

The unpublished revolutionary papers of Major-General Edward Hand of Pennsylvania, 1777-1784; catalogued with preliminary note by A.J. Bowden. The property of and offered for sale by George H. Richmond

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3929

Author: Hand, Edward,

Date of Publication: 1907.

Call Number: 923.5 H236b

Author: Hand, Edward,

Place of Publication: New York

Date of Publication: 1907.

Physical Description: 29 p. 21 cm.

Notes: "Five hundred copies of this catalogue have been printed."

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources.

Additional Author: Bowden, Alfred James,; Richmond, George Herbert,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H236b

Making roads and making road laws in Pennsylvania : an address

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1908]

Call Number: 388.1 H526

Responsibility: by W.U. Hensel before the Pennsylvania Motor Federation, Lancaster, Pa., April 4th, 1908.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Date of Publication: 1908]

Physical Description: 24 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Caption title.

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 388.1 H526

Indian trader troubles

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo288

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

, William, 1715-1774. Indians of North America. Fur trade--United States. United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [305]-326 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 10

Subjects: Johnson, William, - Sir, - 1715-1774.; Indians of North America.; Fur trade - United States.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 10 (1905), p. 305-326Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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James Wilson, James Smith and George Ross, three signers of the Declaration of Independence, who were members of the Cumblerland County Bar : historical address

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8100

Author: Biddle, Edward W.

Date of Publication: [1902].

Call Number: 974.844 B585

Responsibility: by Hon. Edward W. Biddle.

Author: Biddle, Edward W.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1902].

Physical Description: 37 p. ; 26 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.844 B585

The road ahead

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9851

Author: Prentis, H.W.

Date of Publication: 1937 .

Call Number: 814 P927r

Responsibility: by H.W. Prentis, Jr...

Author: Prentis, H.W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster Press, Inc. ,

Date of Publication: 1937 .

Physical Description: 38 p. : 19 cm.

Series: American Bankers Association Address

Subjects: United States - Politics and government.; United States - Social conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 814 P927r

A final word as to Regina, the German captive

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Author: Heilman, Samuel P. ,

Date of Publication: 1905.

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 3, no. 8

1 website

Responsibility: by S. P. Heilman.

Author: Heilman, Samuel P. ,

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Lebanon County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 1905.

Physical Description: p. 202 - 251 : 19 cm.

Notes: In: Lebanon County Historical Society papers , vol. III, no. 8.

Subjects: Hartman, Regina.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755 - 1763 - Personal narratives.; Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755 - 1763 - Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. 3, no. 8

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015847;view=1up;seq=217

Regina, the German captive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19237

Date of Publication: 1904

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. II no. 2

1 website

Date of Publication: 1904

Physical Description: p. 79-97. : 21 cm.

Series: Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses, ,vol. II., no. 2, 1901 - 1904.

Notes: Part I : The location, by Capt. H. M. M. Richards : Part II : The story, by S. P. Heilman.

Summary: On the morning of Oct. 16, 1755, the Hartman family house was attacked by native Americans. The father and son were killed, and two daughters, Regina and Barbara, were carried off. Much of this account includes qualifiers, such as "...as per tradition". The author states, "The latter story is a tradition, but tradition, which differs only from written history in being oral history, transmitted orally from ancestors to posterity, is often quite as reliable as the written kind."

Subjects: Hartman, Regina.; Indian captivities - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; United States - History - French and Indian War 1755 - 1763; Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War 1755 - 1763

Additional Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.; Heilman, Samuel P.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 974.819 L441 v. II no. 2

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015839;view=1up;seq=93

List of the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ocm06657386

Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.

Date of Publication: 1905.

Responsibility: comp. under the direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford, chief, Division of Manuscripts.

Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1905.

Physical Description: 322 pages ; 27 cm.

Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, - 1706-1790 - Manuscripts.; Manuscripts - United States - Catalogs.; United States - History - Sources.

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo682

Author: Fiske, John,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 973.22 F541

Responsibility: by John Fiske. Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, contemporary views, prints, and other historic materials...

Author: Fiske, John,

Place of Publication: Boston and New York

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part. double; incl. ports., maps, facsims.) 24 cm.

Notes: "Illustrated edition."; The facsimiles include reproductions of title-pages.

Subjects: Dutch - United States; Quakers - United States; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Middle Atlantic States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.22 F541

The development of early emigrant trails in the United States east of the Mississippi River

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13088

Author: Lewis, Marcus W.

Date of Publication: 1933.

Call Number: 388.12 L675

Responsibility: by Marcus W. Lewis.

Author: Lewis, Marcus W.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: National Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1933.

Physical Description: 15, iii p. : fold. map ; 26 cm.

Series: Genealogical publications of the National Genealogical Society ;

Notes: "Delivered in slightly different form before the National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., February 6, 1932"--P. 1.

Subjects: Migration, Internal - United States; Roads - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 388.12 L675

Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12462

Author: Heitman, Francis B.

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 355.3 H473

Responsibility: by Francis B. Heitman ; published under act of Congress approved March 2, 1903.

Author: Heitman, Francis B.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: G.P.O.,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 26 cm.

Notes: LCHS has vol. 1 only.

Subjects: United States. - Army - Biography - Dictionaries.; United States. - Army - Registers.; Soldiers - Registers.; United States - Armed Forces - Biography - Dictionaries.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 355.3 H473

A square deal in American Industry : a reasonable wage for every American wage-worker and reasonable profit for every American capitalist

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15028

Author: Landis, John H. ,

Date of Publication: 1906.

Call Number: 814 L257sq

Responsibility: by John H. Landis.

Author: Landis, John H. ,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pluck Art Printing ,

Date of Publication: 1906.

Physical Description: 16 p. : 22 cm.

Notes: Speech delivered at Allentown, Pa. , October 24, 1906.

Subjects: Wages - United States.; Profit - United States.; Free trade - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 814 L257sq

The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

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Author: Volm, M. H.

Date of Publication: 1937

Call Number: 973.342 V926

1 website

Responsibility: by M.H. Volm.

Author: Volm, M. H.

Place of Publication: [Charlottesville? Va

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: 27 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Title from cover.; Bibliography: p. 26-27.

Summary: This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.342 V926

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015059428360;view=1up;seq=3

Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days : a paper read before the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, January 14th, 1905

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18899

Author: Ames, Herman Vandenburg,

Date of Publication: c1905]

Call Number: 340 A513

Responsibility: Herman Vandenburg Ames Ph. D.

Author: Ames, Herman Vandenburg,

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: Leeds & Biddle Co.,

Date of Publication: c1905]

Physical Description: 26 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Law - United States; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 340 A513

The practical book of American furniture and decoration, colonial and federal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2494

Author: Holloway, Edward Stratton.

Edition: A new ed., rev.

Date of Publication: 1937.

Call Number: 645 H745

Responsibility: by Edward Stratton Holloway ... with 200 illustrations.

Author: Holloway, Edward Stratton.

Edition: A new ed., rev.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, London

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott company,

Date of Publication: 1937.

Physical Description: 3 p. l., 5-191 p. front., illus., 140 plates on 70 l. 24 cm.

Series: [Lippincott's practical books for the enrichment of home life]

Notes: First published, 1928, under title: American furniture and decoration, colonial and federal.

Subjects: Furniture - United States.; Interior decoration - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 645 H745

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Lewis Evans

Lebanon County in the French and Indian War. Paper read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, April 21, 1901

Websites

Loan exhibition of portraits of the signers and deputies to the convention of 1787 and signers of the Declaration of Independence : including their families and associates ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art, city of Washington, November 27, 1937, to February 1, 1938

The works of James Buchanan, comprising his speeches, state papers, and private correspondence

The unpublished revolutionary papers of Major-General Edward Hand of Pennsylvania, 1777-1784; catalogued with preliminary note by A.J. Bowden. The property of and offered for sale by George H. Richmond

Making roads and making road laws in Pennsylvania : an address

Indian trader troubles

Documents

James Wilson, James Smith and George Ross, three signers of the Declaration of Independence, who were members of the Cumblerland County Bar : historical address

The road ahead

A final word as to Regina, the German captive

Websites

Regina, the German captive

Websites

List of the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

The development of early emigrant trails in the United States east of the Mississippi River

Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from its organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903

A square deal in American Industry : a reasonable wage for every American wage-worker and reasonable profit for every American capitalist

The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

Websites

Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days : a paper read before the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, January 14th, 1905

The practical book of American furniture and decoration, colonial and federal