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The developer's frontier : the making of the Western New York landscape

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo314

Author: Wyckoff, William.

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 974.703 W977

Responsibility: by William Wyckoff.

ISBN: 0300041543

Author: Wyckoff, William.

Place of Publication: New Haven

Publisher: Yale University Press

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: xiv, 239 p. ill. 24 cm.

Contents: Chapters: The developer's frontier : background and setting - The township surveys of 1797-1799 - Opening the purchase - Settlement policy on the developer's frontier - Commercial policy on the developer's frontier - Settlers on the developer's frontier - The changing frontier landscape - A legacy on the landscape.

Summary: "This book tells how one nineteenth-century group of developers, the Holland Land Company, promoted and organized a settlement of vast wilderness tracts in western New York state. Wyckoff shows that the experience of eastern developers was distinctive from that of other frontier settlers; unlike the isolated pioneer of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier model or the land speculator in search of quick profits that other historians have described, eastern frontier developers fostered long-term settlement and regional growth by means of carefully formulated and comprehensive plans. Wyckoff discusses how these developers designed surveys, village plats, roads, urban centers, and services to attract desirable settlers..." [book jacket]

Subjects: Ellicott, Joseph.; Land use, Rural - New York (State); Frontier and pioneer life - New York (State); New York (State) - Historical geography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.703 W977

The Palatine families of New York : a study of the German immigrants who arrived in colonial New York in 1710

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6791

Author: Jones, Henry Z,

Date of Publication: 1985.

Call Number: 929.3 J77

Responsibility: by Henry Z Jones, Jr.

ISBN: 096138882X (set)

Author: Jones, Henry Z,

Place of Publication: Universal City, Calif

Publisher: H.Z. Jones,

Date of Publication: 1985.

Physical Description: 2 v. (xl, 1298 p., [24] p. of plates) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; Bibliography: v. 2, p. 1207-1211.

Subjects: Palatine Americans - New York (State); Registers of births, etc. - New York (State); Tulpehocken settlers.; New York (State) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.3 J77

Iron in colonial times : activities for grades 4, 5 & 6

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5102

Author: Clarke, Mary Stetson.

Date of Publication: c1981.

Call Number: 669 C599

Responsibility: by Mary Stetson Clarke ; illustrated by Joshua Tolford.

ISBN: 0915992094 (pbk.)

Author: Clarke, Mary Stetson.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Eastern National Park & Monument Association,

Date of Publication: c1981.

Physical Description: 24 p. ; ill. : 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Summary: Covers the manufacture of iron, the life of ironworkers, and the use of iron implements in colonial times and includes a variety of related activities and a mystery story.

Subjects: Iron-works - United States; Ironworks.; United States - History - To 1775 - Juvenile literature.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Additional Author: Tolford, Joshua.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 669 C599

Archive

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

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

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

Object ID: MG0331

Date Range: 1762-2003

. Shipped port, sherry and Tenerife wine; no other business news. Invites Reigart to go to New York with him and Ann. 20 May 1824. Letter from Peter Wager to Adam Reigart. Mr. Richards brought Ann from New York; in the morning will go by steamboat to meet her. James Wager and sister spent week. Bought best

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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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One Year Lancaster in 1870-1880: A compilation from newspapers with accompanying notes

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1576

Date of Publication: c.1980.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

Responsibility: compiled with comments by George L. Heiges.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: c.1980.

Physical Description: v. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Extractions from the various newspapers of Lancaster, Pa., done a hundred years after the events took place to satisfy the curiousity of the compiler.; Includes index.; Library lacks 1874 and 1875.

Subjects: Newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Intelligencer Journal (Newspaper); Examiner and Express (Newspaper); New Era (Newspaper); American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 1870-1880.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs. - 1870-1880.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1870--1880.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO H465

Farming, always farming : a photographic essay of rural Pennsylvania German land and life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7422

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Responsibility: made by H. Winslow Fegley ; [introduction, Scott T. Swank ; captions, Alan G. Keiser, Frederick S. Weiser].

Author: Fegley, H. Winslow

Place of Publication: Birdsboro, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;

Notes: "Photographs from the collection of the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania."; Bibliography: p. 30.

Subjects: Fegley, H. Winslow - 1871-1944 - Photography collections.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania - Berks County; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Pictorial works.; Pennsylvania - Pictorial works.; Berks County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.

Additional Author: Swank, Scott T.; Keyser, Alan G.; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Additional Corporate Author: Schwenkfelder Library.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 TPG v. 20 1986

Colonial dames and good wives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1725

Author: Earle, Alice Morse,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 305.42 E12

Responsibility: written by Alice Morse Earle.

Author: Earle, Alice Morse,

Place of Publication: Bowie: MD

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 315 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series: A Heritage Classic

Notes: Facsimile Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895.

Subjects: Women - United States.; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 305.42 E12

Just a quilt, or, Juscht en Deppich : a folk cultural study and source book of quilting practices in and around the Goschenhoppen region, 1840-1940

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2784

Author: Roan, Nancy.

Date of Publication: c1984.

Call Number: 746.46 R628

Responsibility: Nancy Roan and Ellen J. Gehret.

Author: Roan, Nancy.

Place of Publication: Green Lane, Pa. (Red Men's Hall, Green Lane 18054)

Publisher: Goschenhoppen Historians,

Date of Publication: c1984.

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [3] of cover.

Subjects: Quilting - Pennsylvania - Perkiomen.; Perkiomen (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Gehret, Ellen J.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 746.46 R628

Lutheranism takes root in the settlement of Pennsylvania, 1682-1982

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13061

Author: Huffman, Morna M.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 284.1 H889

Responsibility: by Morna M. Huffman.

Author: Huffman, Morna M.

Place of Publication: Whitney, Pa

Publisher: Can be purchased from M.M. Huffman,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: v, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 191.

Subjects: Lutherans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Church history.; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 H889

The Hessians of Lewis Miller: assimilation of German soldiers in America after the Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7241

Author: Stayer, Jonathan R..

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 759.1392 S798

Responsibility: by Jonathan R. Stayer.

ISBN: 0939016079 (pbk.)

Author: Stayer, Jonathan R..

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Penn State Univ.,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: iii, 238 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: A project in American Studies submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, The Capital College, July 10, 1988.; Bibliography: p. 233-238.

Summary: Lewis Miller was an artist in York, PA. He made sketches of 22 Hessian soldiers who fought for the British during the American revolution and stayed in the York area after its conclusion. The author's book is based on those Hessians. In the introduction, the author states, "The purpose of this paper is to consider the individual soldiers, their families,their lives, and their involvement in the York community in which they settled. What happened to these men after the Revolution ? Why did they choose the communities in which they settled. Were they accepted by the Americans ? Did they experience financial success ? What was the nature of their family life ? Did their families suffer the stigma of having a 'Hessian' patriarch."

Subjects: Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.; Sherbahm family.; Sleeger Family.; Stengel Family.; Younger Family.; Zangel Family.; Vogt Family.; Baumgardner Family.; Cramer Family.; Farnschild Family.; Moore Family.; Engelmohr Family.; Hattendorf Family.; Henicker Family.; Herbst Family.; Hubly Family.; Lochner Family.; Stein Family.; Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County; German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.; United StatesÂ Â - HistoryÂ Â - Revolution, 1775-1783Â Â - Participation, German.; York County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Corporate Author: Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.; Historical Society of York County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 759.1392 S798

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