Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Date of Publication
1979.
Physical Description
ix, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
This book was derived from the author's PhD thesis, "Conestoga Crossroads: The Rise of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730-1789", call number 974.815 LACI W876t.
LCHS copy inscribed by author.
"Notes and bibliographical essay": p. 257-296.
Summary
PART ONE- Concentrates on the political and administrative history of Lancaster as a borough. PART TWO- Discusses the town's economic structure and it's role as a regional marketing center and "western emporium " including a description of the structure of inland trade. PART THREE- Focuses on the economic class structure of the community, on the characteristics of it's religious life, on the social and cultural interaction between "Dutchmen" and "Engellanders" and on the role of the town as an intellectual center.
Trauungen aus dem Kirchenbuch der Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvanien, 1748-1767 : mit zahlreichen deutschen Herkunftsangaben = Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1748-1767
Records of marriages and burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland, and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the city of Frederick, Maryland, 1743-1811
