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The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1927
General Conway was read and referred to the Board of War. A letter from Colonel G. Morgan, at Pittsburgh, with several papers enclosed, was read and referred to the Board of War. A letter from Baron de Kalb to Colonel R(ichard), H(enry) Lee, was read and referred to the Board of War. A letter, of the 16th
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by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
101-103 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7
Subjects
United States. - Continental Congress.
Constitutional history - United States.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 101-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication
1924
chopped with the tomahawk, his hands cut off, and finally a rifle ball discharged in his mouth so that his head was blown to atoms and the brains were splashed against, and yet hanging to, the wall. In this manner lay the whole of them, women and children spread about the prison yard shot, scalped and
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
129-149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 9
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Indian Town (Conestoga, Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Conestoga Indians.
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Conestoga (Pa. : Township) - History.
Additional Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Landis, David H.,
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 9 (1924), p. 129-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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Historical sketch of rural field sports in Lancaster County

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1923
I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the
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by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1923
Physical Description
149-160 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 9
Subjects
Hunting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 9 (1923), p. 149-160Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27
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List of iron furnaces formerly operating in Clarion County

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1927
wherein they stood, for the wives of their owners or in honor of various presidents of the United States. 1 Clarion Furnace, built 1828. Stood on Clarion river, just west of the mouth of Little Toby creek. Thirty feet high, by eight feet across the bosh. Owners, Henry Bear and Christian Myers; afterwards
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Responsibility
by Herbert Huebener Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
149-153 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 9 & 10
Subjects
Myers, Christian, - 1796-1877.
Bear, Henry.
Clarion Furnace (Clarion County, Pa.)
Iron mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Clarion County
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Clarion County
Clarion County (Pa.) - History.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 9/10 (1927), p. 149-153Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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The story of Shultz's Mill on Beaver Creek

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1927
mill promptly determines the direction of the roads which must lead to it. Hostelries, churches, villages follow later, on the road system primarily and largely dependent upon the position of the mills. After 1710, through a period vague in local history, the famous Hans Herr pioneers and their
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by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
97-100 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7
Subjects
Shultz, Christian.
Shultz's Mill (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Beaver Creek (Lancaster County, Pa.)
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 97-100Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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