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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21608
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
  1 website  
Responsibility
by the author of Common sense.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
Summary
One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
Websites
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The Pennsylvania gazette. : Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22183
Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
Alternate Title
Supplement to the Pennsylvania gazette
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by David Hall, and William Sellers, at the New Printing-Office, near the Market.],
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
[6] p. : orn. ; 41 cm.
Notes
LHO has in seven volumes, Jan 2, 1772, no. 2245 - Dec 30, 1772, no. 2297; Jan 6, 1773, no. 2298 - Dec 29, 1773, no. 2349; Jan 3, 1776, no. 2457 -Sep 16, 1777, no., 2533; Jan 7 1784, no 2901 - Dec 28, no. 2900; Jan 4, 1786m bi, 2901 - Dedc 26m 1687, no. 3004; Jan 2, 1788, no 3005 - Dec 20, 1790, no 3161; and Jan 7, 1795, no. 3364 - Dec 27, no. 3559.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatuare at top of some front flyleaf and some individual issues.
Newspapers numbers 23,-29 as asssigned by LHO.
Newspaper 29 spine label misnamed Phila Gazette Weekly.
Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - To 1775 - Periodicals.
United States.
Periodicals.
Periodicals - 18th century.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Typed label affixed to spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Hall, David,
Sellers, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
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Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield from Andrew Stuart, Esq

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Author
Stuart, Andrew,
Date of Publication
printed in the month of January, 1773.
Call Number
Book 664 1773
Author
Stuart, Andrew,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
printed in the month of January, 1773.
Physical Description
[2], 39, [1], 64, 47, [1], 47, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
On the conduct of Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the Douglas case, concerning the claim of Archibald Douglas as heir to tailzie to his uncle, Archibald, Duke of Douglas.
Signatures: [A]1 B-2C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page; signature of original owner removed.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Letters refering to the Douglas Peerage case.
Subjects
Mansfield, William Murray, - Earl of, - 1705-1793.
Hamilton, James George Hamilton, - Duke of, - 1755-1769
Douglas of Douglas, Archibald Douglas, - Baron, - 1748-1827
Mansfield, William Murray, - Earl of, - 1705-1793
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Mansfield, William Murray,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 664 1773
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Das Pennsylvanische Zeitungs-Blat, oder, Sammlung sowohl auswärtig- als einheimischer Neuigkeiten

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16055
Date of Publication
1778.
Call Number
070.484 P415
Alternate Title
Pennsylvanische Zeitungs-Blat
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Frantz Bailey,
Date of Publication
1778.
Physical Description
21 v. ; 33 cm.
Publication Frequency
Weekly
Dates of Publication
1 Stück (4 Feb. 1778)-21 Stück (24 Juni 1778).
Notes
Photocopy of the microfilm copy (No. 212) in LCHS library.
Sub-title: Bekantmachung sowohl auswärtig-als ein-heimischer Neuigkeiten, Apr. 29, 1778-June 24, 1778.
Subjects
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Newspapers.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Newspapers.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
070.484 P415
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The Pennsylvania chronicle, and universal advertiser

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Date of Publication
1767-1774.
Call Number
Newspaper 19 1768-1769
Newspaper 20 1770-1771
Newspaper 21 1771-1772
Newspaper 22 1772-1773
Newspaper 23 1773-1774
Alternate Title
Pennsylvania chronicle
Universal advertiser
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
William Goddard,
Date of Publication
1767-1774.
Physical Description
volumes
Publication Frequency
Weekly
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 26, 1767)-v. 2, no. 55 (Jan. 25, 1768) ; v. 2, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1768)-v. 8, no. 2 (Feb. 8, 1774).
Notes
LHO has vols 2. 4. 5 ,6, and 7.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Newspaper numbers 19-23 as assigned by LHO.
Subjects
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Philadelphia County (Pa.) - Newspapers.
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia County.
Newspapers - Philadelphia - 18th century.
Periodicals
Newspapers.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Typed title affixed to spine.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Newspaper 19 1768-1769
Newspaper 20 1770-1771
Newspaper 21 1771-1772
Newspaper 22 1772-1773
Newspaper 23 1773-1774
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An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22120
Date of Publication
1772.
Call Number
Book 950 1772
Place of Publication
America
Publisher
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: pi⁶ B⁸ D-F⁴ [G]⁴ H-2M⁴.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Parliament - Elections.
Great Britain. - Parliament.
Dissenters, Religious - England - Early works to 1800.
Law - Great Britain.
Dissenters, Religious.
Elections.
Law.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Prospectuses - Great Britain - 18th century.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foster, Michael,
Mansfield, William Murray,
Blackstone, William,
Furneaux, Philip,
Priestley, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 950 1772
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The history of the cases of controverted elections : which were tried and determined during the first session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, XV Geo. III

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21433
Author
Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas,
Date of Publication
1778.
Call Number
Book 495 1778
Book 494 1778
Responsibility
by Sylvester Douglas.
Author
Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by J. Williams,
Date of Publication
1778.
Physical Description
4 volumes ; 22 cm
Notes
Each vol. includes an index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 491 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Elections - Great Britain.
Election law - Great Britain.
Election law.
Elections.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 495 1778
Book 494 1778
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British spy map of Southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna to the Delaware River

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15169
Date of Publication
c.1776.
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
Place of Publication
[s.l.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
c.1776.
Physical Description
1 map : photocopy ; 49 x 96 cm.
Notes
Clinton Map #250 University of Michigan.
"General Sir William Howe may have used this map on his march from the Chesapeake Bay to Philadelphia in September 1777".
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution - 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench from Easter Term 12 Geo. 3. to Michaelmas 14 Geo. 3 (both inclusive.) [1772-1774] With some select cases in the Court of Chancery, and of the Common Pleas which are within the same period. To which is added, the case of General Warrants and the collection of maxims

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21520
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1776.
Call Number
Book 554a 1776
Responsibility
By Capel Lofft, Esquire, of Lincoln's Inn.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan and the Woodfall ... and published by William Owen,
Date of Publication
1776.
Physical Description
951 pages in various pagings. 32 cm
Notes
"John Wilkes esq. against Wood. The case of General Warrants" (Michaelmas Term, 3 Geo. 3. 1763. C.B.): 19 p.
Includes "A Table of the principal matters contained in this volume."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 554a as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Warrants (Law)
Legal maxims - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Legal maxims.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Bindingh)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingh)
Additional Author
Lofft, Capel,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 554a 1776
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