William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library.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
Being in part the genealogical and autobiographical manuscripts of Solomon P. McCurdy (1820-1890). Pertaining to the Sharp and McCurdy Families; indexed.
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).
