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
A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the Market. ,
Date of Publication
M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
Physical Description
39, [1] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Other contents: Tax lists, Union Township/Lightfoot Collection, box 5, Lancaster Co., Earl twp; "Draught of lands in Lancaster County"/Surveys List of Surveys 1692; proprietary lands ca. 1776/General statitics, Mr. Hamilton's list, Dec. 1, 1765 by Edw Shippen/Pennsylvania cash accounts (Edmund Physick)/Penn MSS Pa. land grants/Lamberton Scotch-Irish Collection- Tax lists Cumberland/Lancaster Co. MSS II- Tax list Lancaster Boro/ [ditto] Tax list Cocalico/Draft of Meadow Land on River Delaware between Darby and Crum Creeks/ [ditto] Draft of farm on Hollander's Cr/Maps/Berks and Montgomery, Misc MSS- tax list Union twp
Indian speeches of Cornplanter, Half[?], etc, 1790/James Kenny Journal to the westware, 1758, 1761/Timothy Horsfield letterbook 1754-1755/Copy of Cornplanter's speech Oct 1790/Conrad Weiser's letter to C Saur
Also this roll of microfilm contains various early land transactions, copy of account of lands surveyed for the proprietors, list of ground rent for Lancaster city residents.
Originally copied for Russell Nelson by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers' certificate. There is also a blank book with paper made at Ephrata Cloister in 1796.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
MG0071
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 October 2018.
