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In search of Buchanan : 'Clarior hinc honos' : the stories of some Buchanan ancestors before and after the emigration of James Buchanan of Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1783

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19670
Author
Martin, Irene.
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
923.173 B918ma
Responsibility
Irene Martin.
ISBN
9780956797902
0956797903
Author
Martin, Irene.
Place of Publication
[Ireland]
Publisher
Rossnashannagh,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
iii, 152, [17] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
Notes
Sub-title on cover: from Anselan to President James Buchanan.
"Some of these stories are incorporated in the BBC1 TV documentary, 'Are you related to an American President?', produced by Big Mountain Productions."
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Buchanan family.
Scotland - Genealogy.
Ireland - Genealogy.
United States - Genealogy.
Ireland.
Scotland.
United States.
Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918ma
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General John Fulton Reynolds : his biography, words and relations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19538
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
923.5 R462k
Responsibility
Lawrence Knorr, Michael A. Riley, Diane E. Watson.
ISBN
9781620061817 (pbk.)
1620061813 (pbk.)
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Sunbury Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Rev ed. of: General John Fulton Reynolds / compiled by Lawrence Knorr. Camp Hill, PA : Sunbury Press, c2010.
Includes: Kinship of John Fulton Reynolds (p. 250-291).
Genealogy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. For God's sake forward! / by Michael A. Riley -- pt. 2. Reynolds, the last six miles / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 3. Reynolds, his own words before Gettysburg / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 4. The relations of John Fulton Reynolds / by Lawrence Knorr.
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863 - Family.
Reynolds family.
United States. - Army - Biography.
United States. - Army.
Generals - United States - Biography.
Families.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States.
Personal narratives.
Records and correspondence.
Additional Author
Riley, Michael A.
Watson, Diane E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 R462k
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Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19834
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington, [D.C.]
Publisher
George W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2
Notes
Library has Vol. 1 only.
Contents
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Messages.
Political science.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.
United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Department of the Interior.
United States. War Department.
United States. Navy Department.
United States. Postmaster General.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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Worst. President. Ever. : James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20514
Author
Strauss, Robert,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
923.173 B918str
Responsibility
Robert Strauss.
ISBN
9781493024834
1493024833
Author
Strauss, Robert,
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introducing the worst. President. Ever -- The Young Buck -- Up from Lancaster -- The man who would be president, again and again -- The election of 1856: the most consequential in American history -- The worst presidency begins -- The middle Buchanan presidency: hardly better -- Mr. Buchanan's War -- The legacy of the least of the lesser presidents.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21092
Author
Ward, Andrew,
Date of Publication
2008.
Call Number
973.711 W256
Responsibility
Andrew Ward.
ISBN
9780618634002
0618634002
9780547237923
0547237928
Author
Ward, Andrew,
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.
Summary
The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Slaves - Southern States - Biography.
Freedmen - United States - Biography.
African Americans - Biography.
African Americans.
Freedmen.
Slaves.
Social aspects.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.
Southern States.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.711 W256
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Letter from the secretary of state, enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the Mint : exhibiting the state of that establishment, and shewing the necessity of some further legislative provisions to render it more efficient and secure. : 14th December 1795, committed to the committee of the whole House, on the state of the union

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21190
Corporate Author
Mint of the United States.
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCV. [1795]
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1795a
Corporate Author
Mint of the United States.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCV. [1795]
Physical Description
14 pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes
The directors were Henry William De Saussure and Elias Boudinot.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ (B4 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address &c. recommendations to the states, bhy the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelpbia: 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 -- 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 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Evans
Subjects
Coinage - United States.
Coinage.
United States.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Boudinot, Elias,
De Saussure, Henry William,
Bailey, Robert,
Bailey, Francis,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
United States. Department of State.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1795a
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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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Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase : one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, before the High Court of Impeachment, composed of the Senate of the United States, for charges exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, in the name of themselves, and of all the people of the United States for high crimes nd misdemeanors, supposed to have been by him committed : with the necessary documents and official papers, from his impeachment to final acquittal

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21699
Author
Chase, Samuel,
Date of Publication
1805.
Call Number
Book 618 1805
Responsibility
taken in short hand, by Charles Evans ; and the arguments of counsel revised by them from his manuscript.
Author
Chase, Samuel,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatinge,
Date of Publication
1805.
Physical Description
[6], 12, [3]-268 (i.e. 312), 68 pages ; 25 cm (8vo)
Notes
Pages 50-51 omitted in numbering; p. 205-212 repeated; extra numbered p. 101*-112*, 212* (i.e. 213*)-230*, 237*-244*.
"Appendix. Impeachment of the Hon. Samuel Chase, with the articles exhibited against him by the House of Representatives; also his answer and pleas, exhibits, and the replication of the House of Representatives, &c. &c.": 68 p. at end, with separate title page.
Trial January 2-March 1, 1805, for alleged misdemeanors in the political trials of Fries and Callender.--cf. Sabin, Dictionary of books relating to America.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 618 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Fries, John, - approximately 1750-1818.
Callender, James Thomson, - 1758-1808.
Impeachments - United States.
Impeachments.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Evans, Charles,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 618 1805
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A treatise of the law relative to merchant ships and seamen : in four parts

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22103
Author
Abbott, Charles,
Date of Publication
1802.
Call Number
Book 931 1802
Responsibility
by the Rt. Hon. Charles Abbott ... ; enlarged with an addenda relative to some laws and customs of the United States.
Author
Abbott, Charles,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by James Humphreys ...,
Date of Publication
1802.
Physical Description
xvi, [17]-342, [6] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [[1]]⁴ [2]-[44]⁴ [45]².
Includes index of cases cited (p. [xiv]-xvi), general index, and list of subscribers (p. [1-4] at end).
Advertisements on p. [5-6] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 931 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
(from t. p.) I. Of the owners of merchant ships -- II. Of the persons employed in the navigation thereof -- III. Of the carriage of goods therein -- IV. Of the wages of merchant seamen.
Subjects
Maritime law - United States.
Maritime law - Great Britain.
Maritime law.
1802.
Philadelphia - Printed and sold by James Humphreys.
Great Britain.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Humphreys, James,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 931 1802
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