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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14878
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1918.
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Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1918.
Physical Description
pp. 1-28 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.42.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turmpike Road.
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14879
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
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Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Physical Description
pp. 84-90 , 182-190 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
This article was serialized across several issues. This record provides links to each installment. Most of the links are from the publisher's official online repository, although two parts were only available on the HathiTrust online depository.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volumes 42 (p. 1-28, 127-140, 235-258, & 358-360) & 43 (p. 84-90 and 182-190).
Summary
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Phladelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17278
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Call Number
021 L257
  2 websites  
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Physical Description
83 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Caption title.
Reprinted from The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v. 42-43, 1918-1919.
Summary
The spine of this book reads "Juliana Library Co. Lancaster". This book contains reprints of three articles that were penned by Charles Landis. The first article is entitled "The Julianan Library Company in Lancaster". It is followed by "History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike". And the last article is entitled "Jasper Yeates and his times".
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
021 L257
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Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798

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Corporate Author
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.
Date of Publication
1800.
Call Number
Yeates Book 450 1800a
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Corporate Author
Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by James Carey ...,
Date of Publication
1800.
Physical Description
59, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴ H².
Publisher's advertisement: p. [1] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address, &c. recommendations to the states by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783 -- An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800
Evans
Subjects
Alien and Sedition laws, 1798.
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1797-1801.
United States.
Three quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 450 1800a
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To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12506
Author
Earnest, Corinne P.
Date of Publication
c2004.
Call Number
740 E12t
  1 website  
Responsibility
Corinne and Russell Earnest.
ISBN
0271023686 (alk. paper)
Author
Earnest, Corinne P.
Place of Publication
University Park
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Physical Description
xxi, 153 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 37. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 4
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Additional Author
Earnest, Russell D.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
740 E12t
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The survival of the medieval art of illuminative writing among Pennsylvania Germans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18416
Author
Mercer, Henry C.,
Date of Publication
1897]
Call Number
096 M534
  1 website  
Responsibility
Henry C. Mercer.
Author
Mercer, Henry C.,
Place of Publication
[Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1897]
Physical Description
[423]-432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Illumination of books and manuscripts.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Additional Corporate Author
Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
096 M534
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Letters sent by the Commissioner of the Revenue and the Revenue Office, 1792-1807

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22244
Corporate Author
United States. Revenue Office.
Date of Publication
1962.
Call Number
Drawer 5, section 5
  1 website  
Corporate Author
United States. Revenue Office.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
National Archives and Records Service,
Date of Publication
1962.
Physical Description
3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Series
National Archives microfilm publications ; microcopy no. 414
Notes
Records of the Internal Revenue Service. Record Group 58.
Listed in "Microfilm resources for research," 2000 as: M414.
Contents
Reel 1. May 11, 1792-Dec. 19, 1795--reel 2. Dec. 19, 1795-Apr. 1800--reel 3. 1802-Dec. 8, 1807.
Subjects
United States. - Revenue Office - Records and correspondence - Sources.
United States. - Bureau of Internal Revenue - Records and correspondence - Sources.
United States. - Bureau of Internal Revenue.
United States. - Revenue Office.
Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 5, section 5
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Pennsylvania at Chickamauga and Chattanooga

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1967
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Chickamauga-Chattanooga battlefields commission.
Date of Publication
1900]
Call Number
973.735 P415
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battles ... 1897.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Chickamauga-Chattanooga battlefields commission.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
W. S. Ray, state printer,
Date of Publication
1900]
Physical Description
499 p. : front., plates, ports. ; 25cm.
Notes
George W. Skinner, secretary of the Executive committee of the Commission, editor and compiler.
Subjects
Chickamauga (Ga.), Battle of, 1863.
Chattanooga (Tenn.), Battle of, 1863.
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pennsylvania.
Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.)
Additional Author
Skinner, George Washington,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.735 P415
Websites
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Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
971.018 P416
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Responsibility
by J. C. B. Prepared by Pennsylvania Historical Survey (Frontier Forts and Trails Survey) Division of Community Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Edited by Sylvester K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent and Emma Edith Woods.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania Historical Commission,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
xiv, 167 p. front., illus., plates (incl. map) 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
"The present translation is based on Casgrain's edition."--p. vi.
Summary
"A French soldier set down his memories of life and adventure in western Pennsylvania and other parts of North America during the thrilling events of the French and Indian War, and called the book 'Voyage au Canada dans le nord de l' Amerique Septentrionale, fait depuis l'an 1751 A 1761'...The author is known only by his initials, J.C.B...These reminiscences of life and events in the wilderness, in the towns of New France, and as a prisoner in New York City, give vivid pictures of the experiences of an ordinary man in an age which was full of significance for the future of America. [from the foreword]
Subjects
Indians of North America.
Canada - History - 1663-1713 (New France).
Canada - Description and travel.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,
Kent, Donald H.,
Woods, Emma Edith,
Casgrain, H. R.
J.-C. B.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Survey.
Frontier Forts and Trails Survey.
Pennsylvania Historical Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
971.018 P416
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Index to the journal of the first House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20841
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1808.
Call Number
Yeates Book 41 1808
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Alternate Title
Index for 1790-1
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by J. Bioren, No. 88, Chesnut Street.
Date of Publication
1808.
Physical Description
[26] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 41 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. - General Assembly. - House of Representatives.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 41 1808
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