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The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence: letters of the Franks family, 1733-1748

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Author: Franks, Abigail,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Call Number: 929 F834f

Responsibility: Edited by Leo Hershkowitz and Isidore S. Meyer.

Author: Franks, Abigail,

Place of Publication: Waltham, Mass

Publisher: American Jewish Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1968.

Physical Description: xxxv, 171 p. illus., facsim., geneal. tables, maps, ports. (1 col.) 26 cm.

Series: Studies in American Jewish history ;

Notes: Thirty-four letters written by the author to her son, Naphtali Franks.; Bibliography: p. 145-158.

Subjects: Franks, Abigail, - 1696-1756.; Franks family.; Franks, Abigail, - 1696-1756 - Correspondence.; Jews - New York (State) - New York

Additional Author: Franks, Naphtali,; Hershkowitz, Leo,; Meyer, Isidore S.,; Friedman, Lee Max,

Additional Corporate Author: American Jewish Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 F834f

Country life in America as lived by ten presidents of the United States. John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge

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Author: Booth, Edward Townsend,

Edition: [1st ed.].

Date of Publication: 1947.

Call Number: 923.173 B725

Author: Booth, Edward Townsend,

Edition: [1st ed.].

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: A.A. Knopf,

Date of Publication: 1947.

Physical Description: xviii, 264 p., xii p. 22 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [249]-264.

Subjects: Presidents - United States - Biography.; Country life - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B725

Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830

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Author: Davis, Richard Beale.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 917.55 D263

Author: Davis, Richard Beale.

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: x, 507 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Notes: "Bibliography and notes": p. [439]-482.

Contents: Chapters: Formal Education // Reading and Libraries // Religion // Agrarian Economy // Science // Fine Arts // Literature // Law and Oratory // Politics and Economics

Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826 - Homes and haunts - Virginia.; American literature - Virginia; Virginia - Intellectual life - 19th century.; Virginia - Intellectual life - 18th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.55 D263

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Object ID: MG0294

Date Range: 1865-1961

2, Insert 6 Correspondence Letter. Vina [ ___ ], Johnson City, New York, to Maria Hobson, Van Etten, New York. Informs sister of John’s death from bronchial pneumonia. Includes date and location of funeral. 3 March 1931. Envelope. Addressed to Maria Hobson. Later annotation. Postmarked 3 March 1931

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Collection: Geist Family Papers

Title: Geist Family Papers

Description: The Geist Family Papers include correspondence, tax records, legal documents, and other items related to the Geist family. Some correspondence is personal, while other letters relate to legal proceedings concerning estates and inheritances. A number of wills and associated materials, generally related to adjudications involving family members. Numerous local tax notices and federal income tax returns largely pertain to Daniel W. and Bertha W. Geist. Other materials include notebooks and receipts from Daniel W. Geist's time at Millersville State Normal School, visiting cards, and newspaper clippings.

Date Range: 1865-1961

Year Range From: 1865

Year Range To: 1961

Date of Accumulation: 1865-1961

Creator: Geist family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Alexander, James K.; Anderson, Howard; Bachman, Julie C.; Bard, Bertha; Brown, George; Bulleit, Edward Banister; Dague, Isaac W.; Dague, Lily C. Geist; Diller, Luther R.; Eshleman, John H.; Fox, Christian, Jr.; Geist, Adam; Geist, Agnes; Geist, Bertha Wanner; Geist, Daniel W.; Geist, Ettie G.; Geist, Everett S.; Geist, Harry Kohler; Geist, Lilly Kate; Groff, John M.; Heisher, Daniel; Hobson, Jesse; Hobson, Maria; Horst, Jacob G.; Kjorlien, Alvin C.; Leaman, William; Lyte, Eliphalet Oram; Martin, Luke W.; Milledge, Stanley; Miller, Helen Mildred Diller; Miller, Leon H. B.; Miller, Ruth; Ott, Janet F.; Overly, Herman Witmer; Overly, Richard Geist; Pond, B. C.; Pool, Virginia L.; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano; Rush, Charles William; Rush, Harriet Geist; Shaub, Sadie; Shirk, H. S.; Shirk, Henry; Shirk, Lawrence; Stoner, H. K.; Weaver, C. R.; Weaver, George A.; Werner, John Thomas; Witmer, Clara; Wolf, Lemon A.; Wolfe, Helen

Subjects: Decedents' estates; Estates (Law); Letters; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Taxation

Search Terms: A. Geist and Son; Adams County, Pennsylvania; Albert Pick Company; Births; Bismarck, North Dakota; Blue Ball Bank; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Calling cards; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Correspondence; Death; Decedents' estates; Earl Twp.; East Earl Twp.; Ephrata; Estate settlement; Farmers National Bank; Finding aids; Florida; Franklin Twp., Adams County, Pennsylvania; Funerals; Gap, Salisbury Twp.; Grand Forks Herald; Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; Health; Hotel Gladstone; Hunters; Inheritance; Internal Revenue Service; Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota; Johnson City, Broome County, New York; K. Aslesen Company; Lancaster; Lancaster New Era; Leland-Parker Hotel; Letters; Manuscript groups; Masons; McClure House; Miami, Florida; Millersville; Millersville State Normal School; Millersville University; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; Mountville Farm Women's Society; New Berlin, Ephrata Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey; Parades; Patterson Hotel; Pennsylvania State Normal School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Postage stamps; Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Receipts; Republican Party; San Francisco, California; Schools; Stamps; Stevens, East Cocalico Twp.; Stocks; Tax returns; Taxation; Trusts and trustees; United Commercial Travelers of America; Vienna Bakery Company; Visiting cards; Washington, DC; West Cocalico School District; Wheeling, West Virginia; Wills; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 12 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0294

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2002.Hawbaker

Other Numbers: MG-294

Classification: MG0294

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 19 January 2022.

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The genealogy of Rev. W. H. Van Deusen (son of Jacob Dean Van Deusen and Julia Maria Custer McIntosh Van Deusen) and Custer, Hendrickson, Belton, Chelf, Evans and Stayton families

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Author: Pratt, Cherry Laura Van Deusen.

Date of Publication: [1969]

Call Number: 929 V246p

Author: Pratt, Cherry Laura Van Deusen.

Place of Publication: Rockford, Ohio

Publisher: Rockford Press

Date of Publication: [1969]

Physical Description: 83 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Subjects: Van Deusen family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 V246p

Archive

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

Adam Reigart, Jr. He was awakened by the town bell – the home of Edward Pennington was on fire. Because Aunt lives next door, he made all possible speed to the scene. The house was destroyed and the cause of the fire unknown. 21 September 1805. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart. Mary Wager is

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Collection: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Title: Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection

Description: The Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection contains correspondence between Adam Reigart, Jr. in Lancaster and Philip Wager in Philadelphia and their families. The letters are primarily from the early nineteenth century and provide information about family illness, travel, visits, business, and family chatter. The receipts and invoices show purchases made in Lancaster and Philadelphia, especially clothing, fabric, dry goods, and meat. The remainder of the collection is made up of newspaper articles, books, and an album of poetry and drawings. The items were housed in a gig trunk which is now in the museum collection.

Admin/Biographical History: Adam Reigart, Jr. (1765-1844) was born in Lancaster. He was the eldest son of Col. Adam Reigart, owner of the Grape Tavern which served as general headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Adam Jr. founded the Reigart Wine Store in 1785 and was in business with Philip Wager in Philadelphia and Philip's son Peter throughout his career. He was the first president of the Lancaster branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and was involved with the Conestoga Navigation Company and the Union Fire Company.; Adam Jr. married Mary Magdalena Wager (1772-1806) in 1791. Mary was the daughter of Philip Wager, a Philadelphia wine merchant. They had eight daughters and a son. Susan married Stephen C. Slaymaker and Margaretta married Henry Y. Slaymaker.

Date Range: 1762-2003

Year Range From: 1762

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1762-2003

Creator: Murphy, John Slaughter, 1921-2011

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 08

People: Arnold, Benedict; Baker, W.; Bare, Jacob; Blight, Peter; Boughter, Charles; Breidenhart, George; Brien, Edward; Brown, Luke; Butter, Charles; Cassidy, Edward; Clarke, John; Clendenin, Samuel; Coleman, Edward; Coleman, William; Edwards, Susanna; Ehler, John; Fisher, Sammy; Fox, Sam M.; Frey, John; Gaskill, Edmund; Gay, Edward F.; Getz, John; Givens, John; Graeff, George; Greland, D.; Hahn, B. Christian; Harrison, George; Haverstick, William; Hopkins, A. R.; Hopkins, Ann; Houston, James; Hubley, Frederick; Hubley, Joseph; Hultzheimer, N.; Hyde, Charles; Irving, Robert; Jack, Joshua; Kauffman, Jacob; King, George; Kirkpatrick, William; Kline, Jacob; Lane, John; Leiper, George G.; Lowry, Robert; Lowry, Robert K.; Mayer, George Louis; Metzger, Emanuel; Metzger, George; Metzger, Jacob; Miller, Barbara; Miller, Henry; Miller, Martin; Miller, Philip; Montgomery, William; Morris, John; Mosher, Joseph; Murphy, John Slaughter; Myer, John; Myers, John; Newlin, Nathaniel; Nice, Levi; Nimrod, Maxwell; Ogilby, Joseph; Otto, Jacob S.; Otto, John C.; Pennington, Edward; Peters, Abraham; Phinney, Zina; Price, Joseph; Price, Richard; Reigart, Adam; Reigart, Adam, Jr.; Reigart, Ann; Reigart, Emanuel; Reigart, Henrietta; Reigart, Maria Wager; Reigart, Mary; Reigart, Mary C.; Reigart, Philip Wager; Reigart, Susan; Rimfast, John; Sample, Joseph; Schaubel, Johannis; Sener, Samuel Miller; Sewell, Charles S.; Shaeffer, Jacob; Shenk, Abraham; Shenk, Christian; Shippen, Peggy; Singer, A.; Slaymaker, Henry Edwin; Slaymaker, Mary Steele; Slaymaker, Stephen Cochran; Smith, Ann; Smith, Anthony; Smith, Ralph; Stein, Philip; Steinman, George; Stewart, William; Sullivan, Susannah; Wager, George; Wager, Hannah; Wager, James; Wager, Mary; Wager, Peter; Wager, Philip H.; Wager, Sally; Wager, Sophia; Wager, William; Walsh, Christopher; Wentz, Thomas; Wertz, Christian; Wharton, Charles; Whitaker, George; Whitaker, John; Wimer, Michael; Winroth, Margaret; Witmer, David; Woodmund, William; Yeiser, Philip

Other Creators: Reigart family

Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Invoices; Letters; Obituaries; Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Search Terms: Adam Reigart and Son; Albums; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Brenner and Reed; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cape May, New Jersey; Charles C. and J. Watson; Christ Church Burial Ground; Cincinnati, Ohio; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Delaware; Dixon Walker and Company; Earp and Brothers; Finding aids; Grape Hotel; Greene County, New York; H. Behlen and Company; Illnesses; Invoices; J. Walker and Company; John Warden and Sons; Kentucky; Lancaster; Lancaster County Almshouse; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Intelligencer; Lancaster Journal; Lancaster New Era; Lancaster Sunday News; Lane Slaymaker and Company; Letters; London, England; Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Lowry and Myers; Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Manuscript groups; Margaretta Furnace; Marietta Bank; Morning News; Mount Auburn Cemetery; New York, New York; Newspaper clippings; Obituaries; Ohio; Pennsylvania German Society; Pensacola, Florida; Peter Wager and Company; Philadelphia Inquirer; Pratt and Kintzing; Race Street; Receipts; Reeve's Tavern; South Carolina; Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Spain; St. James Episcopal Church; Union Fire Company; Vintners; Wager and Company; Washington Fire Company; West Point Military Academy; William Noyes and Company; Wine merchants; York Springs Boarding House; York Springs, York County, Pennsylvania; York, York County, Pennsylvania

Extent: 2 boxes, 35 folders, 1.5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0331

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Gig trunk (2003.078); Adam Reigart Collection (MG0122)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Adam Reigart Jr., John S. Murphy Collection (MG0331), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2003.078

Other Numbers: MG-331

Classification: MG0331

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid created by KR. Added to database 8 March 2022.

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A description of the true and of the false church : as outlined in a certain history, properly named The bloody theatre, or Martyrs mirror, by Thieleman J. van Braght, 1660, and A solution to wor[l]d problems

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Author: Braght, Thieleman J. van

Edition: 3d ed.

Date of Publication: 1945.

Call Number: 272 B813

Responsibility: compiled by Menno Sauder.

Author: Braght, Thieleman J. van

Edition: 3d ed.

Place of Publication: Elmira, Ont

Publisher: Menno Sauder,

Date of Publication: 1945.

Physical Description: viii, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title: The true and the false church ...

Subjects: Church history.; Martyrs.

Additional Author: Sauder, Menno,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 272 B813

Home missions in the mother synod. Golden jubilee volume of the Board of home missions of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states

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Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.

Date of Publication: [c1946]

Call Number: 284.1 H765

Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Board of home missions.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia?]

Publisher: The Board of home missions of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states and the United Lutheran publication house

Date of Publication: [c1946]

Physical Description: 5 p. Î²., 136 p. incl. fronts. (ports.) 21 cm.

Notes: Lancaster information on pages 8-10, 54-59.; Bibliography: p. 127.

Subjects: Lutheran Church; Missions - Pennsylvania.; Missions - New Jersey.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania.; Church buildings - New Jersey.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 H765

Gettysburg--1963; an account of the centennial commemoration. Report of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Commission to the General Assembly

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Corporate Author: Gettysburg Centennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 973.7349 S594

Responsibility: Compiled and edited by Louis M. Simon.

Corporate Author: Gettysburg Centennial Commission.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: xi, 120 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.

Subjects: Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863

Additional Author: Simon, Louis M.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7349 S594

Eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York

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Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Date of Publication: [1961]

Call Number: 974.802 C926a

Responsibility: Translated & edited by Percy G. Adams.

Author: St. John de CrÃ¨vecoeur, J. Hector,

Place of Publication: [Lexington]

Publisher: University of Kentucky Press

Date of Publication: [1961]

Physical Description: xliv, 172 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Notes: "Translation of selections from Jean de CrÃ¨vecÅ“ur's Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans l'Ã©tat de New York."

Subjects: Indians of North America; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; New York (State) - Description and travel.; United States - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Adams, Percy G.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 C926a

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The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence: letters of the Franks family, 1733-1748

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3126

Country life in America as lived by ten presidents of the United States. John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16338

Intellectual life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo753

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2e7b5e2e-f7c0-45c1-925f-944649511343

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The genealogy of Rev. W. H. Van Deusen (son of Jacob Dean Van Deusen and Julia Maria Custer McIntosh Van Deusen) and Custer, Hendrickson, Belton, Chelf, Evans and Stayton families

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6170

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/8b950e59-596d-4ffd-bc86-444331137484

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A description of the true and of the false church : as outlined in a certain history, properly named The bloody theatre, or Martyrs mirror, by Thieleman J. van Braght, 1660, and A solution to wor[l]d problems

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19063

Home missions in the mother synod. Golden jubilee volume of the Board of home missions of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12391

Gettysburg--1963; an account of the centennial commemoration. Report of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Commission to the General Assembly

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2660

Eighteenth-century travels in Pennsylvania & New York

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4892