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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322

Author: Blum, Herman,

Date of Publication: 1950]

Call Number: 923.2 P412b

Author: Blum, Herman,

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: Blumhaven Library and Gallery,

Date of Publication: 1950]

Physical Description: 48 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Contains also material on Thomas Holme, surveyor for Penn in Pennsylvania.; Bibliography: p. 48.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Holme, Thomas, - d. 1695.

Additional Corporate Author: Blumhaven Library and Gallery.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 P412b

Notes and documents: a Pennsylvanian visits the Richmond slave market

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14203

Author: Eggert, Gerald G.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.109

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Responsibility: by Gerald G. Eggert.

Author: Eggert, Gerald G.

Physical Description: 571-576 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.109 (October 1985).

Subjects: Rawn, Charles C.; Philips, Jim.; Slavery - United States - Virginia

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.109

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44088/43809

Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388

Author: Smith, Billy Gordon.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)

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Responsibility: by Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.

Author: Smith, Billy Gordon.

Physical Description: p. 237 - 264.

Notes: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 113, April 1989.

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania; American newspapers - Pennsylvania; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.

Additional Author: Wojtowicz, Richard.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)

Websites

https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44424/44145

Conscience in crisis : Mennonites and other peace churches in America, 1739-1789 : interpretation and documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo126

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Date of Publication: 1979.

Call Number: 261.63 M167

Responsibility: Richard K. MacMaster, with Samuel L. Horst and Robert F. Ulle.

ISBN: 083611213X :

Author: MacMaster, Richard K.

Place of Publication: Scottdale, Pa

Publisher: Herald Press,

Date of Publication: 1979.

Physical Description: 575 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history ;

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [549]-560.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Church of the Brethren - Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.; Moravian Church - Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.; Society of Friends - Middle Atlantic States; Mennonites - Middle Atlantic States; Schwenkfelders - Middle Atlantic States; Nonviolence; Pacifism; Draft - United States.; Conscientious objectors.; Middle Atlantic States - Church history - Sources.; Middle Atlantic States - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Horst, Samuel L.,; Ulle, Robert F.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 261.63 M167

A compendium of documents pertaining to the McCurdy Family of Kentucky and Utah

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo215

Author: McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp,

Date of Publication: 1982

Call Number: 929 M133m

Responsibility: compiled and annotated by Michael L. McCurdy

Author: McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp,

Place of Publication: Silver Spring, MD

Publisher: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1982

Physical Description: 49 p. 29 cm.

Notes: Being in part the genealogical and autobiographical manuscripts of Solomon P. McCurdy (1820-1890). Pertaining to the Sharp and McCurdy Families; indexed.

Subjects: McCurdy family.; Sharp family.; Kentucky - Genealogy.; Utah - Genealogy.

Additional Author: McCurdy, Michael L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 M133m

Some old documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo430

Author: Schnerer, Frank E.

Date of Publication: 1906

SOME OLD DOCUMENTS. Quite recently a number of legal papers came into my possession, among them being an advertisement, letters of administration, confirmation of sale, and all in first-class condition. The advertisement is none of the elaborate or illuminated order as we see in our modern times

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Responsibility: by Frank Elser Schnerer.

Author: Schnerer, Frank E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: [109]-113 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 4

Subjects: Schnerer, Jacob, - 1713-1790.; Elser, Peter, - d. 1786.; England, Theophelus, - d. 1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 4 (1906), p. 109-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10

Documents

vol10no4pp109_113_114642.pdf

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History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1470

Corporate Author: United States.

Date of Publication: 1943]

Call Number: 973.4 B655

1 website

Responsibility: Sol Bloom, Director General.

Corporate Author: United States.

Place of Publication: [Washington

Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1943]

Physical Description: x, 885 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Formation of the Union under the constitution.

Summary: The book was written as part of the National celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.

Subjects: United States.; United States - Constitutional history.; United States - Politics and government.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.4 B655

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050625170&view=1up&seq=7

Teaching with documents using primary sources from the National Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2399

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: Washington, DC

Call Number: 973.071 U58

ISBN: 0911333797

Corporate Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration.

Edition: Washington, DC

Place of Publication: National Archives and Records Administration

Publisher: 1989

Physical Description: ix, 241 p. ill. 28 cm.

Notes: Provides practical suggestions for using documents in several classroom settings

Subjects: United States - Sources - History.; United States - History.

Additional Author: Study and teaching Secondary.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.071 U58

English historical documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2872

Date of Publication: 1955-

Call Number: 973.2 D733

Responsibility: General editor: David C. Douglas.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford Univerity Press,

Date of Publication: 1955-

Physical Description: v. : maps (part fold.) diagrs., geneal. tables., 25 cm.

Notes: Each volume has special t.p.; LCHS has v.9 - American colonial documents to 1776.; First published 1955, reprinted 1968.; Includes bibliographies.; African American resources at Lancaster ounty Historical Society

Contents: v.l. c.500-1042.--v. 2. 1042-1189, edited by D.C. Douglas and G.W. Greenaway.--v. 3. 1189-1327.-v. 4. 1327--1485.--v. 5. 1485-1558.--v. 6. 1558-1603.--v. 7. 1603-1660.--v. 8. 1660-1714, edited by A. Browning.--v. 9.American colonial documents to 1776, edited by M. Jensen.--v. 10. 1714-1783, edited by D.B. Horn and M. Ransome.--v. 11. 1783-1832.--v. 12.pt.1. 1833-1874, edited by G.M. Young and W.D. Handcock; pt.2. 1874-1914.; The charter of Pennsylvania (4 March 1681).--William Penn: Some account of the province of Pennsilvania (1681).--William Penn: Preface to the first Frame of Government (1642).--The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (28 October 1701).--Pennsylvania Flour Inspection Law (20 March 1725).--Pennsylvania law regulating conditions on immigrant ships (27 January1750).--Protest of German Quakers against slavery (18 April 1688).--Benjamin Franklin: proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania (1749).--Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: account of the Paxton Boys (1-7 February 1764).--Matthew Smith and James Gibson: remonstrance of the Pennsylvania frontiersmen (13 February 1764).--Philadelphia opposition to the tea act.--Pennsylvania assembly instructions against independence (9 November 1775).

Subjects: Great Britain - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Douglas, David Charles,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 D733

A refutation of Andrew Stewart's fabrication against General Lewis Cass : a gross misrepresentation of the public documents, by Andrew Stewart and the Whig Central Committee at Washington, exposed

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15723

Corporate Author: Democratic National Committee (U.S.)

Date of Publication: 1848]

Call Number: 815 P769 # 14

Corporate Author: Democratic National Committee (U.S.)

Place of Publication: [Washington

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1848]

Physical Description: 16 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Caption title.; At head of title: Published under authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee.; In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Cass, Lewis, - 1782-1866.; Stewart, Andrew, - 1791-1872.; Taylor, Zachary, - 1784-1850.; Campaign literature - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Jackson Democratic Association (Washington, D.C.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 14

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William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14322

Notes and documents: a Pennsylvanian visits the Richmond slave market

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14203

Websites

Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388

Websites

Conscience in crisis : Mennonites and other peace churches in America, 1739-1789 : interpretation and documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo126

A compendium of documents pertaining to the McCurdy Family of Kentucky and Utah

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo215

Some old documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo430

Documents

History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1470

Websites

Teaching with documents using primary sources from the National Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2399

English historical documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2872

A refutation of Andrew Stewart's fabrication against General Lewis Cass : a gross misrepresentation of the public documents, by Andrew Stewart and the Whig Central Committee at Washington, exposed

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15723