Abstracts of Pennsylvania records of naturalizations, 1695-1773, found in Colonial records (Minutes of the Provincial Council), volumes 1, 2, 3, 9 & 10, The statutes at large of Pennsylvania, volumes II, III, IV, VI, VII & VIII, Pennsylvania archives, series 1, volumes 1, 3 & 4 : with surname index
Guide to records of the Court of Common Pleas, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1900 : records of the prothonotary, civil records of the sheriff, select civil records of the Circuit Court of Chester County, and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Guide to records of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1969 : records of the clerk of courts, records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, criminal records of the sheriff
The appendix contains several lists, etc., not immediately relating to Pennsylvania: p. 439-449, lists of Palatines in New York Colony, 1709-1714; p. 449, list of Palatines in North Carolina, 1709-1710; p. 449-451, lists of Salzburgers in Georgia, 1734-1741; p. 454-460, notice of the German settlement in North Carolina, 1709-1710; p. 460-462, Germanna, Va.; p. 463-464, list of Huguenots in New Rochelle, N.Y., 1710; p. 479-495, interpretation of baptismal names.
Publisher from spine.
Cover title: Thirty thousand names of immigrants in Pennsylvania.
Includes indexes.
Reprint of: 2nd rev. and enl. ed. Philadelphia : I. Kohler, 1876 ; with Ernst Wecken's index, and with Index to ships.
Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition of books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, October 1983 to January 1984
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
iv, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Chapters include: Founding documents, William Penn's problems, Stormy politics, Problems of society (black and slave issues), Territorial delineation, westward expansion and Indian affairs, The French and Indian War and its consequences and The Revolutionary period.
The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages, the localities where they formerly lived in the mother country, the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England
