William Penn, 1644-1718 : new light thrown on the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, through heretofore unpublished documents on the Blumhaven Library. An exhibition of holograph letters and autograph documents, selected from source materials in the Blumhaven Collection
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs
v. : maps (part fold.) diagrs., geneal. tables., 25 cm.
Notes
Each volume has special t.p.
LCHS has v.9 - American colonial documents to 1776.
First published 1955, reprinted 1968.
Includes bibliographies.
African American resources at Lancaster ounty Historical Society
Contents
v.l. c.500-1042.--v. 2. 1042-1189, edited by D.C. Douglas and G.W. Greenaway.--v. 3. 1189-1327.-v. 4. 1327--1485.--v. 5. 1485-1558.--v. 6. 1558-1603.--v. 7. 1603-1660.--v. 8. 1660-1714, edited by A. Browning.--v. 9.American colonial documents to 1776, edited by M. Jensen.--v. 10. 1714-1783, edited by D.B. Horn and M. Ransome.--v. 11. 1783-1832.--v. 12.pt.1. 1833-1874, edited by G.M. Young and W.D. Handcock; pt.2. 1874-1914.
The charter of Pennsylvania (4 March 1681).--William Penn: Some account of the province of Pennsilvania (1681).--William Penn: Preface to the first Frame of Government (1642).--The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (28 October 1701).--Pennsylvania Flour Inspection Law (20 March 1725).--Pennsylvania law regulating conditions on immigrant ships (27 January1750).--Protest of German Quakers against slavery (18 April 1688).--Benjamin Franklin: proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania (1749).--Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: account of the Paxton Boys (1-7 February 1764).--Matthew Smith and James Gibson: remonstrance of the Pennsylvania frontiersmen (13 February 1764).--Philadelphia opposition to the tea act.--Pennsylvania assembly instructions against independence (9 November 1775).
Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania Newsletter supplement, July, 1984.
Contents
Three early Franconia Conference Mennonite libraries -- Letter from David and Catharine Funk to John Gottschalk, 1811 -- 1728 petition for "Susquehanna Road or line" -- 1728 petition to have Skippack and Perkiomen Township surveyed.
The Register of Pennsylvania : devoted to the preservation of facts and documents and every other kind of useful information respecting the state of Pennsylvania
