Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction, respecting, the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general states, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix
Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,
Date of Publication
1797-1798.
Physical Description
2 v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Library has: vol. 1.
Full leather binding with red spine label stamped in gold.
Bookplate of Redmond Conygnham, No. 2435.
Evans
Contents
I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709.--II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix.
"Among the books and papers which have passed from generation to generation in the Keller family is a small leather-bound, hand-written booklet. The firsrt entry states: "Copy of memorandum of the Brethren's Church kept by Christian Bomberger, Rothsville." The copy was made by Lizzie W. Keller, Springville.
Translation of the German notes by Frielinde Kratz Ebersole.
History of Lancaster and York Counties : from the earliest settlements made within them; in the former, from 1709; in the latter from 1719, to the present time; to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, from A.D., 1681, to the year 1710: with an appendix
"History of York County, from one thousand seven hundred and nineteen to the present time...by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., G. Hills, 1845": p. [526]--743.
History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill counties : containing a brief history of the first settlers, topography of townships, notices of leading events, incidents, and interesting facts in the early history of these counties; with an appendix, containing matters of deep interest
Facsimile reprint of the 1845 ed. published by G. Hills, Lancaster, Pa., printed by Hickok and Cantine, Harrisburg, Pa.
"A journal of James Young, commissary general, of musters--from June 19 to June 26, 1756": p. [407]-420; "A journal of Captain John Van Etten, at Fort Hyndshaw and Fort Hamilton, in the Pennsylvania forces, from Dec. 1, 1756 to July 21, 1757": p. [421]-455; "A journal of Colonel James Burd, from Feb. 16th, 1758 to Mar. 10th, 1758": p. [447]-459; "Fragment of a journal containing an account of doings at Fort North Kill ... June 13 to Aug. 31 [1754]": p. [463]-477.
The Olden time : a monthly publication devoted to the preservation of documents and other authentic information in relation to the early explorations and the settlement and improvement of the country around the head of the Ohio
