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In 1654 the Bristol City Council passed an ordinance requiring that a register of servants destined for the colonies be kept, the purpose being to prevent the practice of dumping innocent youths into servitude. The registers, covering the period 1654 to 1686, are the largest body of indenture records known, and they also are a unique record of English emigration to the American colonies.Of the total of 10,000 servants in these registers, almost all came from the West Country, the West Midlands, or from Wales. Most entries give the name of the servant, his place of origin (until 1661), length of service, destination (usually Virginia, Maryland, or the West Indies), name of master, and, after 1670, the name of the ship. Four indexes have been included, one each for servants, masters, places of origin, and ships. [from Ancestry.com]
"A comprehensive listing compiled from English public records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the New Colonies."
The emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the eighteenth century : the conduct of the governments towards it and the ensuing fates of the emigrants
The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England
Pierce's register : register of the certificates issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to officers and soldiers of the Continental Army under act of July 4, 1783
The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.
"Pennsylvania medical men of the American Revolution and era" : a history of the Revolution and era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history
First ed., published 1981, was a revision of: A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825 / compiled by Harold Lancour. 3rd ed. / rev. and enl. by Richard J. Wolfe. 1963.
An alphabetical listing of heads of households (with age and sex of all members of households) included in the 1800 federal census of York County, Pennsylvania
An alphabetical listing of heads of households (with age and sex of all members of households) included in the 1800 federal census of Adams County, Pennsylvania
Alphabetical listing of heads of households (with age and sex of all members of households) included in the 1800 federal census of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Chapters: The liberal tradition -- The English jurisprudential tradition -- The literature of political economy and improvement -- The civic humanist tradition -- The literature of enlightenment -- The Scottish moral and historical tradition -- American voices
Summary
This publication shows the importance of "The Library Company" in Philadelphia and its books during the formation of the United States. The books were used by the men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to create a constitution for the nation. The library held books of all political theories of the time,as well as books about law, history, etc. This book describes the various bodies of knowledge available there to the founders.
