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A plan for institutional services for Lancaster county, Pennsylvania : a report to the board of county commissioners of Lancaster county

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17754
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.
Date of Publication
1961.
Call Number
352.96 L245ca
Responsibility
by the Citizens' Advisory Committee.
Corporate Author
Lancaster County (Pa.) Citizens' Advisory Committee.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
36 leaves ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Hospitals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Planning.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Planning.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Prisons and reformatories.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
352.96 L245ca
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Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19436
Author
Miller, Ken,
Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
973.322 M648
Responsibility
Ken Miller.
ISBN
9780801450556 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801450551 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Miller, Ken,
Place of Publication
Ithaca
Publisher
Cornell University Press,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
ix, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Notes
Autographed by the author after his presentation of 25 September 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue : a community at war -- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in pre-revolutionary Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster -- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the making of revolutionary identity -- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the making of American identity -- "Enemies of our peace" : captives, the disaffected, and the refinement of American patriotism -- "The country is full of prisoners of war" : nationalism, resistance, and assimilation -- Epilogue : the empty barracks.
Summary
"As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities. Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries' enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home.Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists... The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country." [from Amazon.com]
Subjects
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.
Shippen, Edward, - 1639-1712 - Correspondence.
Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Nationalism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Nationalism.
Prisoners of war.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
United States.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.322 M648
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St. James Episcopal Church Lancaster, PA: Parish records, 1744-1950 [Records are shown for individual names in alphabetical order]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16388
Corporate Author
St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa.
Call Number
Drawer 2, Sec. 1: #201-203
Corporate Author
St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa.
Physical Description
3 reels, 35 mm.
Notes
"With some older ones from Christ Church in York Springs"
Card index filmed in 1967.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", page 197 #4.
Reel 201: Abbey through Furnival
Reel 202: Gaddes through Nudick
Reel 203: Oberle through End and Miscellaneous.
Labeled on box # 201 - #203.
Subjects
St. James Protestant Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 2, Sec. 1: #201-203
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State of the accounts of the lieutenant and sub-lieutenants of Lancaster County : from 20th of March 1780, to March 1781 : in which is exhibited an account of the monies received by them for militia fines, and accounted for : together with lists showing by whom they were paid : likewise the application and payment of the monies

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16385
Corporate Author
Lancaster Co., Pa. County lieutenant.
Date of Publication
M,DCC,LXXXV.
Call Number
355.64 P544 1775
Corporate Author
Lancaster Co., Pa. County lieutenant.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Robert Aitken, three Doors above the Coffee-House, in Market Street,
Date of Publication
M,DCC,LXXXV.
Physical Description
46 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Signed: John Nicholson, comptroller-general's office, June 8th, 1785.
Bound in cloth with spine label of red leather stamped in gold.
Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham, No 72.
Sabin,
Subjects
Finance - Pennsylvania
Lancaster Co., Pa - History - Revolution.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution - Registers, lists, etc.
Pennsylvania - Militia.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Comptroller-general's office.
Additional Title
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
355.64 P544 1775
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A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20623
Author
Krebs, Daniel,
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
973.371 K92
Responsibility
Daniel Krebs.
ISBN
9780806143569
0806143568
Author
Krebs, Daniel,
Place of Publication
Norman
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Campaigns and commanders ; v. 38
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index.
Contents
German soldiers in British service -- Subsidy treaties -- Recruitment patterns -- Social composition -- Into captivity -- Prisoners of war in western warfare -- Capture and surrender -- Prisoners of war -- The first prisoners of war in revolutionary hands, 1775-1776 -- German prisoners of war, 1776-1778 -- Provisions and exchange, 1778 -- The Convention Army, 1777-1781 -- Continuity and change, 1779-1783 -- Release and return -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common German soldiers taken prisoner.
Summary
"Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers' letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners' responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a "generous and merciful enemy" to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war."--Publisher's website.
Subjects
German mercenaries
Prisoners of war - United States
Prisoners of war - Germany
Military prisons - United States
Forced labor - United States
Indentured servants - United States
Forced labor.
German mercenaries.
Indentured servants.
Military prisons.
Prisoners of war.
Deutscher Kriegsgefangener.
Nordamerikanischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg.
Tyska legosoldater
Tyska krigsfångar
Nordamerikanska frihetskriget 1775-1783.
Fängelser
Tvångsarbete
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Germany.
United States.
Förenta staterna.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.371 K92
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Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1930
jail, for the time being, all vagrants and disorderly and suspicious persons found in the streets at an unusual hour, who cannot give a satis- factory account of themselves. "Published" by order of the corporation and consent of the citizens. "Adam Reigart, Jr. "John Bausman, "Burgesses." 1 Printed in
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1930
Physical Description
70-71 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 3
Subjects
Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans (Lancaster, Pa.)
Charity organization.
Orphanages - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Charities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 34, number 3 (1930), p. 70-71Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34
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The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1930
The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1930
Physical Description
110-113 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 5
Subjects
American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestice Manufactures and National Industry (Lancaster, Pa.)
Manufactures - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society Volume 34, number 5 (1930), p. 110-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34
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Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1931.
said Court at Lancaster, the day and year aforesaid. For Samuel A. Houston, IL G. Long. The Governor's order for enrolment was endorsed on the foregoing instru- ment of writing, dated June 5th, Anno Domini, 1832.6 6 On July 7th, 1875, the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county amended the charter
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1931.
Physical Description
[122]-135 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 6
Subjects
Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism (Lancaster, Pa.)
Charity organization.
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 6 (1931), p. 121-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35
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The Lancaster County Society for the Encouragement of American Manufacturing

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1930
Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1930
Physical Description
141-143 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 6
Subjects
Lancaster County Society for the Encouragement of American Manufactures.
Manufactures - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 34, number 6 (1930), p. 141-143Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34
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Collections for the poor in 1795

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1929
Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1929
Physical Description
246-247 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 33, no. 11
Subjects
Association for the Relief of the Poor (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 33, number 11 (1929), p. 246-247Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.33
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