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Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19445
Author
Baker, H. Robert.
Date of Publication
©2012.
Call Number
342.73 B167
Responsibility
H. Robert Baker.
ISBN
9780700618644 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700618643 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author
Baker, H. Robert.
Place of Publication
[Lawrence]
Publisher
University Press of Kansas,
Date of Publication
©2012.
Physical Description
xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
Series
Landmark law cases & American society
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Contents
A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.
Summary
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.
Subjects
Prigg, Edward - Trials, litigation, etc.
Prigg, Edward.
Pennsylvania - Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. - Supreme Court.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Fugitive slaves
Trials.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
342.73 B167
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The cemeteries of Marietta, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17502
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
310.35 L257
Responsibility
compiled by James C. Landis.
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
2 v. : ill.; maps ; 28 cm.
Notes
Graves roster and name index follow each cemetery listing.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" Union Meeting House Burial Grounds (aka Zion's Church) page 302 #1 -- Old Presbyterian Graveyard page 303 #4 -- Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery page 303 #3 -- Bethel A M. E. Church page 304 #5 -- Wesley African Methodist Church page 305 #9 -- Marietta Cemetery page 307 #16.
Also contains photocopies of newspaper articles about the murder of Emily Myers by Jonnie Coyle and a copy of the Pa. Supreme Court case of Coyle vs The Commonwealth.
Contents
Introduction / Acknowledgments -- Researcher notes - Burial Ground on Old Colebrook Road -- Union Meeting House Burial Ground (aka Zion's Church) -- Presbyterian Graveyard -- Methodist Episcopal Church Graveyard -- Bethel A.M.E. Church Cemetery -- Wesley African Methodist Church Cemetery -- Marietta Cemetery -- Johnnie Coyle's Grave Hellam Township, York County).
Subjects
Coyle, Johnnie - 1855-1884.
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Marietta.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennyslania
Marietta (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
310.35 L257
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Coatesville and the lynching of Zachariah Walker : death in a Pennsylvania steel town

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21770
Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
364.134 D748c
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Responsibility
Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser.
ISBN
9781609492809
1609492803
Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"The present work is a substantial revision of our earlier work entitled No Crooked Death, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1991"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158).
Contents
"That quiet sabbath evening" -- "A conspiracy of silence" -- "A disgraceful travesty of justice" -- "To humiliate the administration of justice" -- "An American tragedy."
Summary
"On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania steel town. At the time of his very public murder, Walker, an African American millworker, was under arrest for the shooting and killing of a respected local police officer. Investigated by the NAACP, the horrific incident garnered national and international attention. Despite this scrutiny, a conspiracy of silence shrouded the events, and the accused men and boys were found not guilty at trial. On the 100th anniversary of the lynching and the 20th anniversary of the books original release as No Crooked Death, authors Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser bring new insight to events that rocked a community."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Walker, Zachariah, - -1911.
Lynching - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Coatesville - Case studies.
Trials (Murder) - Pennsylvania - Coatesville.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Trials (Murder)
Coatesville (Pa.) - Race relations.
Pennsylvania - Chester County - Coatesville.
Case studies.
Additional Author
Hyser, Raymond M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
364.134 D748c
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Report of the committee having in charge the marking of the site of the Postlethwaite Tavern where the first Courts of Justice in Lancaster County were held

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4567
Date of Publication
1915
. In 1729 there were but three law- yers at the Lancaster bar, Joseph Growden, Ralph Asketon and John Emerson. In 1731 Edward Harris and John Moland were admitted, and in 1732, Francis Sherrard. The names of these gentlemen appear in the re- cord of the litigation of that period. I have not more fully
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1915
Physical Description
219-301 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 8
Subjects
Postlethwaite, John.
Postlethwaite Tavern (Conestoga Township, Pa.)
Courts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Courthouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Dedication services.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 19, number 8 (1915), p. 219-301Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.19
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Presbyterianism in the Pequea valley. Memorial address at the dedication of the founders' windows, Bellevue Presbyterian church, Gap, Pa., September 8, 1912. And other historical addresses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6961
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1912?]
Call Number
285.1 B442h
Responsibility
by W. U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The Brecht printing co.,
Date of Publication
1912?]
Physical Description
84 p. front., plates, port. 24 cm.
Notes
Copy 2 bound in cloth with red spine and gold lettering.
Contents
Presbyterianism in the Pequea Valley -- Appendix A. The memorial windows -- Chronology of Presbyterianism in the Pequea Valley -- Historic Marietta -- Sally Hastings, literary grass widow of Donegal [A paper read before the Lancaster county historical society, Nov. 1906] -- An old time worthy -- Appendix Tannenberg: a famous organ builder -- The Picturesque Pennsylvania Germans [from the Lancaster, Pa., New Era, April 9, 1910]
Subjects
Hastings, Mrs. Sarah (Anderson) - 1773-1812.
Hiltzheimer, Jacob.
Tannenberg, David.
Gap, Pa. Bellevue Presbyterian church.
Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Marietta, Pa. - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
285.1 B442h
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The scoop on Marietta : a small river town

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17083
Author
Alarie, Lyn Baker.
Date of Publication
2012
Call Number
974.815 MARI A322
Responsibility
by Lyn Baker Alarie.
Author
Alarie, Lyn Baker.
Place of Publication
Landisville, Pa
Publisher
Yurchak Printing ,
Date of Publication
2012
Physical Description
xii, 1052 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 1033-1037.
Summary
This book, written by a news correspondent for the Marietta area, has over a thousand pages of stories and information. Included are historiesof many residents as well as a general history of the area. Topics include architecture, arts, industry, churches, transportation, organizations, the Susquehanna River, and many others.
Subjects
Marietta (Pa.) - History.
Marietta (Pa.) - Architecture.
Additional Author
Baker, Hazel Hershey McElroy
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 MARI A322
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John P. Good at the assault on Fort Fisher

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19606
Author
Von Stetten, Wayne.
Date of Publication
2015.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Wayne Von Stetten.
Author
Von Stetten, Wayne.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2015.
Physical Description
pp. 101-105.
Subjects
Good, John P.
Hospitals - New York
Fort Fisher (N.C.) - History.
De Camp Union Hospital (N.Y.) - History.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - North Carolina.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 116, number 2/3 (2015), pp. 101-105.Lancaster History Library - Journal979.9 L245 v.116
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Marietta Restoration Associates presents Candlelight tours of Marietta 1966 to 2015 : Digest of visitations for the 50th anniversary

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19683
Author
Landis, James C.
Date of Publication
Ứ́ 2015.
Call Number
728.37 L257
Responsibility
by James C. Landis.
Author
Landis, James C.
Place of Publication
Landisville, Pa
Publisher
Yurchak Printing, Inc. ,
Date of Publication
Ứ́ 2015.
Physical Description
122 p. : ill. : 28 cm.
Notes
Limited edition publication.
Printed through the financial generosity of Mrs. Margaret Hunt Landis.
Contains bibliographic references
Subjects
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Marietta.
Marietta (Pa.) - History.
Marietta (Pa.) - Historic houses.
Marietta (Pa.) - Tours.
Additional Author
Landis, Margaret Hunt.
Additional Corporate Author
Marietta (Pa.) Restoration Associates, Inc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
728.37 L257
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The life and times of Col. John Siegfried, by Rev. John Baer Stoudt. Prepared at the request of the Col. John Siegfried memorial committee and issued in connection with the unveiling of the monument on the old Mennonite cemetery on West Twenty-first street, Memorial day, May 30, 1914, in Northampton,PA

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Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Date of Publication
1914.
Call Number
974.822 S889
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Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Place of Publication
Northampton, Pa
Publisher
The Cement news print.,
Date of Publication
1914.
Physical Description
62, [3] p. : illus., plates, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Colonel Siegfried had commanded a militia in South Central Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
Subjects
Siegfried, John, - 1745-1793.
Northampton County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.822 S889
Websites
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The location of Susquehannock Fort

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Author
Landis, David H.,
Date of Publication
1910
Fort some years before, as in 1820 this fort was in ruins, and the Indians were located across the river at Conestoga, probably thirty years before. It gives a splendid view of the river and the topography of the country, just as it is seen looking southeast from this point in York county to-day. The
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Responsibility
by D. H. Landis.
Author
Landis, David H.,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1910
Physical Description
81-117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 3
Subjects
Susquehannock Fort (York County, Pa.)
Susquehanna Indians.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities.
York County (Pa.) - Antiquities.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 14, number 3 (1910), p. 81-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.14
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