The "Scotch-Irish" in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Response to a toast at the anniversary dinner of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, February 21, A.D. 1905
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This article features letters from James Buchanan to Henry A. Muhlenberg and letters from Simon Cameron to Muhlenberg indicating their support for him in the upcoming election for governor of Pennsylvania in 1844. Muhlenberg was nominated by the Democratic party for that position, but he died prior to the election.
This book follows up on the "The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington Del., from1697 to 1773. Translated from the original Swedish by Horace Burr,with an abstract of the English records from 1773 to 1810" and catalogs all the names that appeared in the original tome and citing various errata. The Catalogue takes the form of separate bride and groom indexes to the 3,600 marriages in the original volume, an index to some 4,000 births/baptisms performed under the auspices of Holy Trinity, a smaller index to burials, and a complete name and subject index to all persons or subjects not found in the vital records. All in all, some 12,500 individuals are listed here.