Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
Collection contains the research materials of R. Harold Barton on the mills and bridges of Lancaster County. Included are field notes, working papers, photographer's negatives, and postcards. Indexes are available listing mills by name and location, and bridges by name.
Four notebooks are the finished product of the mills and bridges research of R. Harold Barton. These notebooks are in the library under Barton, R. Harold on the online catalog (LC621.85, B283, v.1-v.4). The notebooks constitute 1 cubic ft. of the collection.
The remaining six boxes are located within the manuscript collection. These boxes house working papers, field notes, worksheets, notebooks, photographs, negatives, additional albums of photographs and other miscellaneous material relating to Lancaster County bridges and mills.
Mr. Barton uses a numerical system to locate bridges and mills by township or by the names of the streams, rivers, runs and creeks. Three indexes have been prepared: one lists the bridges by name, one the location by town or townships, and one the names of the mills.
There are a few notes related to Lancaster County gunsmiths, missionaries, and Indian traders.
System of Arrangement
Collection is arranged by township, number, and index.
The work of Eleanor Fulton, a professional researcher. Contains information on the Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, including First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Donegal Presbyterian Church. Also, genealogy notes for local families and St. James Episcopal Church.
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
Description
Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-205
Classification
MG0205
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.
Sebastiani Edzardi, Prof. Publ. Vertheidigung der christlichen Lehre vom Binde-Schlüssel, wider das unchristliche Bedencken D. Christiani Thomasii : nebst einen gründlichen Beweiss, dass der Abfall zum Papstthum die ewige Verdammnis nach sich ziehe
With: 1 title of 268 p. with title page and part of foreword missing; -- Bernard Walther Marberger, Gute Gedancten von der Böxen Zeit 1707... -- Johann Christian Holzhey, Pastor divinitus electus et legitime vocatus... Luebeck und Leipzig: Printed by Johann Wiedemehyer, 1695. Bound together subsequent to publication.
A treatise concerning trespasses vi et armis : wherein the nature of trespass is clearly explicated and the gist of the action stated and by whom such actions may be brought and against whom and how to be laid
De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule
The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses
2 volumes frontispiece (volumes 2, portrait) 32 cm
Notes
Title varies: v. 2: The second part of the Reports of cases and special arguments, argued and adjudged in the Court of King's bench ... By Sir Bartholomew Shower.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 572 and 573 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[pt. 1] Cases adjudg'd in ... in the reign of King William III.--pt. 2. Beginning in Easter term the thirtieth of King Charles the Second, and ending in Easter term the third of King James the Second.