Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Microfilm of this material is found in the Peter Force Collection (Microfilm Drawer 4, Sect.5)
Inlaid evelope contains correspondence regarding the miscellaneous material of the Committee of Safety.
For an explanation of the history of this collection see Pennsylvania History, v. 71, no. 2, p. 213-225 article by Francis W. Fox titled "The Minutes and Papers of the Revolutionary Committees in Lancaster County, 1774-1777.
Copy of the microfilm.
Summary
Minutes (1776 Nov. 28 -1777 June 28), including membership lists, information on issues before the committee, and the committee's interaction with other committees.
RG-15 Records of the Department of Justice, Bureau of Correction, Eastern State Penitentiary (of Pennsylvania).
Series 15.57, rolls # 400-402.
Indexed from October 22, 1829 to June 13, 1895.
Summary
Descriptive registers of inmates incarcerated at the Eastern State Penitentiary. Information provided is name of inmate, crime for which convicted, sentence imposed, date sentenced, name of court in which tried, name of prosecutor, date admitted, date and reason discharged, and a physical description of the inmate including place of birth, age, occupation, race, hair color and type, height, color of eyes, and distinguishing characteristics.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
The 79th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized at Lancaster, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 19, 1861, under the command of Colonel Henry Augustus Hambright. The regiment was recruited in Lancaster and Washington counties.The regiment was attached to Negley's 4th Brigade, McCook's Command, at Nolin, to November 1861. 7th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to December 1861. 7th Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. Negley's Independent Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to August 1862. 28th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 28th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Centre, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to October 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XIV Corps, to July 1865. The 79th Pennsylvania Infantry mustered out of service on July 12, 1865. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79th_Pennsylvania_Infantry_Regiment]
Organized 1732 by the Synod [of Philadelphia]; divided and dissolved 1765; continued in part by Presbytery of Carlisle. Reconstituted as Donegal in 1766 by the Synod of New York and Philadelphia; dissolved 1786.
Affiliation: 1732-1745, the Synod; 1745-1758, Synod of Philadelphia; 1758-1786, Synod of New York and Philadelphia.
Vol. 3 includes minutes of Carlisle Presbytery, May 23, 1765-Apr. 25, 1766.
Labeled as #837.
Microfilm. Philadelphia : Presbyterian Historical Society, 1966. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
