Skip header and navigation
  Revise Search

Revise Search

20 records – page 1 of 1.

Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21637
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1786]
Call Number
Book 588 1786
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws (1785 Oct.-Dec.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford.,
Date of Publication
[1786]
Physical Description
P. [1], 2-8, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. I-IV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Signatures: A-B² chi1.
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Bryan, Samuel,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1786
Less detail

Laws enacted in the second sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21638
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1786]
Call Number
Book 588a
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1786]
Physical Description
[1], 10-87, [1], 4 p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: C-Y² [Z]².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. V-XXXII signed and enacted in the months of February through April by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
With: Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the third sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : [T. Bradford, 1786].
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Bryan, Samuel,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588a
Less detail

Laws enacted in the third sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21639
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1786]
Call Number
Book 588 1786b
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1786]
Physical Description
[1], 90-179, [1], 3, [1] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: 2A-2Z² (2Z2 verso blank) chi² (chi2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. XXXIII-LVIII signed and enacted in the months of August and September by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Bryan, Samuel,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1786b
Less detail

Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21640
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1787]
Call Number
Book 588 1787
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
1787]
Physical Description
[1], 182-194, [2] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Signatures: 3A-3D² (3D2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LIX-LXIV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text,
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1787
Less detail

Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21641
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1787]
Call Number
Book 588 1787a
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
1787]
Physical Description
[1], 196-313, [1], iv p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Signatures: 3E-4L² (4L2 verso blank) chi².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXV-CIII signed and enacted in the months of February and March by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarteres leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1787a
Less detail

Laws enacted in the first sitting of the twelfth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty second day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21643
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1787]
Call Number
Book 588 1787c
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws (1787 Oct.-Nov.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by T. Bradford.,
Date of Publication
[1787]
Physical Description
P. [1], 402-404, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. CXXX-CXXXII signed and enacted in the month of November by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Signatures: 5L² chi1 (chi1 verso blank).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Yeates,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1787c
Less detail

Laws enacted in the third sitting of the twelfth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21645
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1788]
Call Number
Book 588 1788a
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by T. Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1788]
Physical Description
[1], 456-537, [1], 2 p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: 6B-6Z² ( -6Z2) (6Y2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. CLVI-CLXXIV signed and enacted in the months of September and October by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588 1788a
Less detail

Laws of the fourteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21651
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1790]
Call Number
Book 589 1790a
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1790]
Physical Description
[1], 234-317, [1] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title. Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: 3G-4D² [4E]¹.
Sideglosses.
Pagination continues session laws from 1788 (Evans 21368).
Page 275 incorrectly numbered 267.
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 589 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on decorated boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 589 1790a
Less detail

Massacre of the Conestogas : on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17894
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
974.802 B886
More detail
Responsibility
by Jack Brubaker.
ISBN
9781609490614
1609490614
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
188 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [177]-188.
Contents
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
Subjects
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Massacres - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Race relations - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 B886
Less detail

Proceedings and debates of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21661
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Date of Publication
1787-1788.
Call Number
Book 592 1787-1788
More detail
Alternate Title
Debates of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Thomas Lloyd ...
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Humphreys ...,
Date of Publication
1787-1788.
Physical Description
4 v. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Publisher statement varies: v. 2: Printed by Joseph James; v. 3-4: Printed for the editor.
Vols. 1-2 published in 1787; v. 3-4 in 1788.
Vol. 1: 143, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 189, [3] p.; v. 3: [2], 234 [i.e. 238] [2] p. ; v. 4: 348 p.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 592 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHO copy imperfect volume 4 wanting.
Book plate of William Bingham with handwritten note: bought of his Executers, Dec 6, 1863.
Evans
Subjects
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Sources.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Bingham, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 592 1787-1788
Less detail

Laws enacted in the third sitting of the seventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred eighty and three

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21617
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1783]
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
More detail
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws (1783 Aug.-Sept.)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1783]
Physical Description
P. [1], 186-254, [2] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication supplied by Hildeburn and Evans.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the sixth General Assembly of the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the sitting which commenced at Philadelphia on Monday, the twenty-second day of October, and continued by adjournment to Friday, the twenty-eighth day of December, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, Philadelphia, 1782 (Evans 17659).
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LXXI-CII signed and enacted in the months of August and September, 1783 by Frederick Muhlenburg, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Z. Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Signatures: 3A-3S².
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
ESTC
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
History.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad,
Lloyd, Peter Zachary.
Pod, Alexander.
Sharwood, Geo.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1783c
Less detail

Frontier country : the politics of war in early Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20529
Author
Spero, Patrick,
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016.
Call Number
974.802 S749
More detail
Responsibility
Patrick Spero.
ISBN
0812248619
9780812248616
Author
Spero, Patrick,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, PA
Publisher
University Of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016.
Physical Description
viii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series
Early American Studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Early American frontiers -- Chapter 1. The hidden flaw -- Chapter 2. Growth arrives -- Chapter 3. The first frontier crisis -- Chapter 4. Pennsylvania's apogee -- Chapter 5. Becoming a frontier community -- Chapter 6. Frontier politics -- Chapter 7. The permanent frontier -- Chapter 8. The British Empire's frontier crisis -- Chapter 9. Independent frontier -- Chapter 10. Creating a frontier government -- Conclusion. Frontiers in a new nation -- Coda. frontiers: meanings, controversies and new evidence.
Summary
In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists and Native Americans but also among neighboring British colonies. These violent encounters created what Spero describes as a distinctive "frontier society" on the eve of the American Revolution that transformed the once-peaceful colony of Pennsylvania into a "frontier country." Spero narrates Pennsylvania's story through a sequence of formative but until now largely overlooked confrontations: an eight-year-long border war between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1730s; the Seven Years' War and conflicts with Native Americans in the 1750s; a series of frontier rebellions in the 1760s that rocked the colony and its governing elite; and wars Pennsylvania fought with Virginia and Connecticut in the 1770s over its western and northern borders. Deploying innovative data-mining and GIS-mapping techniques to produce a series of customized maps, he illustrates the growth and shifting locations of frontiers over time. Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and between eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Spero recasts the importance of frontiers to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.
Subjects
Cresap's War
Insurgency - Pennsylvania
Boundaries.
Insurgency.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
Pennsylvania - Boundaries - 18th century.
Maryland - Boundaries - 18th century.
Virginia - Boundaries - 18th century.
Connecticut - Boundaries - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 S749
Less detail

The influence of Lancaster County on the Pennsylvania frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3355
Author
Godcharles, Frederic Antes,
Date of Publication
1920
this spirit I have thought that you natives of old Lancaster county, with a full portion of this same modesty, may not be familiar with the influ- ence exerted by many of your heroic early citizens on the frontiers of our Province; how these brave men and women pushed out from old Lancaster, following
More detail
  1 document  
Responsibility
address by Hon. Frederick A. Godcharles.
Author
Godcharles, Frederic Antes,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1920
Physical Description
77-82 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 4
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life.
Land settlement.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 24, number 4 (1920), p. 77-82Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.24
Documents
thumbnail

vol24no4pp77_82_276655.pdf

Read PDF Download PDF
Less detail

The Pennsylvania packet, and daily advertiser

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22180
Date of Publication
1788-1789]
Call Number
Newspaper 12 1789
More detail
Alternate Title
Pennsylvania packet
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia : On the south side of Market-Street, the third House east of Second-Street
Publisher
Printed and sold by John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole ;
Date of Publication
1788-1789]
Physical Description
[4] p. : orn. ; 47 cm.
Notes
LHO has Sep 11, 1789 through Dec 28 1789 bound as one volume.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
No signature.
Newspaper number 12 as assigned by LHO.
Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers
Subjects
Tax collection - Pennsylvania.
Politics and government
Tax collection.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - History - Sources.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789 - Periodicals.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
United States.
History.
Periodicals.
Sources.
Periodicals - 18th century.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards.
Typed label affixed to spine.
Additional Author
Claypoole, David C.,
Dunlap, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Newspaper 12 1789
Less detail

The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20427
Author
Kanefield, Teri,
Date of Publication
2015.
Call Number
920.72 K16
More detail
Responsibility
by Teri Kanefield.
ISBN
9781419718663
1419718665
Author
Kanefield, Teri,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
Date of Publication
2015.
Physical Description
pages cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Suzy comes to America -- At home in the land of brotherly love -- Shaking off the yoke -- A new home on the frontier -- A little romance -- Political adviser, lawyer, activist, and advocate for the Indians -- Businesswoman and scientific author -- The American Revolution -- Celebrated poet -- Last years and legacy -- Afterword: from Wright's Ferry to Columbia.
Summary
Introduces Suzy Wright, a Quaker who helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier, defended the rights of Native Americans, and provided legal counsel to her neighbors.
Subjects
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Women - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Poets - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Clerks of court - Pennsylvania - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Juvenile literature.
Quakers.
Poets.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Women - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Poets - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Clerks of court - Pennsylvania - Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Women.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.
Columbia (Pa.) - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Columbia (Pa.) - Biography.
Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.72 K16
Less detail

Early local historical items

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo941
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1913
, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17
More detail
  1 document  
Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1913
Physical Description
123-137 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5
Subjects
American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 17, number 5 (1913), p. 123-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.17
Documents
thumbnail

vol17no5pp123_137_374252.pdf

Read PDF Download PDF
Less detail

Pennsylvania politics and the growth of democracy, 1740-1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3497
Author
Thayer, Theodore,
Date of Publication
1953.
Call Number
974.80272 T369
More detail
Author
Thayer, Theodore,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1953.
Physical Description
x, 234 p. illus., ports., map 24 cm.
Notes
Binder's title: The growth of democracy, 1740-1776.
Appendices (p. 205-227): 1. The Charter of privileges, 1701.--2. The Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1776.
Bibliography: p. 199-203.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80272 T369
Less detail

The Quaker exiles

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo957
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1905
Wharton,the latter being at that time the Presi- dent of the Executive Council of the State, which was holding its sittings in the city of Lancaster, and because most of the parties referred to later on passed through the city and where their relatives and friends met them at their release. The story with
More detail
  1 document  
Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1905
Physical Description
[77]-117 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 4
Subjects
Quakers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 4 (1905), p. 77-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9
Documents
thumbnail

vol9no4pp77_117_1031774.pdf

Read PDF Download PDF
Less detail

Early local references

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4862
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1907
--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical
More detail
  1 document  
Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1907
Physical Description
[281]-296 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 8
Subjects
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 11, number 8 (1907), p. 281-296Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.11
Documents
thumbnail

vol11no8pp281_296_381197.pdf

Read PDF Download PDF
Less detail

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
More detail
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
Less detail

20 records – page 1 of 1.