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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

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Author
Watson, John F.
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
974.8 P544 1860
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by John F. Watson ; embellished with engravings by T.H. Mumford.
Author
Watson, John F.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Elijah Thomas,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
3 v., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Spine title: Watson's annals of Philadelphia.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Mumford, Thomas Howland,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.8 P544 1860
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Minutes of the third session of the ninth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday, the twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Date of Publication
M, DCC, LXXXV [1785]-M,DCC,LXXXVI [1786]
Call Number
Book 13 1786
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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Hall and Sellers, in Market-street,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, LXXXV [1785]-M,DCC,LXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description
329-402, 1-336, 1-250, 1-280 p. ; 31 cm
Notes
Each set of minutes has separate title page.
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 13 as arranged by Yeates.
Evans
One-half leather with marble papers; Title in gold on maroon leather.
Contents
Third session of the Ninth General Assembly (p.329-402) -- First session of the Tenth General Assembly (p. 1-160) -- Second session of the Tenth General Assembly (p. 161-272) -- Third Session of the Tenth General Assembly (p. 273-336) -- First session of the Eleventh General Assembly (p.1-114) -- Second session of the Eleventh General Assembly (p.115-198) -- Third session of the Eleventh General Assembly (p.199-250) -- First session of the Twelfth General Assembly (p.1-98) -- Second session of the Twelfth General Assembly (p. 99-200) --Third Session of the Twelth General Assembly (201-280)
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - 18th century - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 18th century.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 13 1786
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The Militia Muster, or Battalion Day

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Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1900
The Militia Muster, or Battalion Day. Sixty or seventy-five years ago neither legal nor other holidays were as common in Lancaster county as they are to-day. It is true that New Year's Day received some attention at the hands of those who owned firearms; Good Friday was observed by a ma- jority of
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Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1900
Physical Description
[33]-43 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 2
Subjects
Battalion Day.
Militia Day.
Battalion Day - Poetry.
Militia Day - Poetry.
Holidays - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Militia.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 2 (1900), p. 33-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4
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Massacre of the Conestogas : on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County

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Author
Brubaker, John H.
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
974.802 B886
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Responsibility
by Jack Brubaker.
ISBN
9781609490614
1609490614
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
188 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [177]-188.
Contents
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
Subjects
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Massacres - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Race relations - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 B886
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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

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Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
923.5 H236c
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  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
s.l.]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Order of exercises and songs laid in.
Summary
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
Subjects
Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H236c
Websites
https://archive.org/details/commemoration00lanc/page/n5
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A country storekeeper in Pennsylvania : creating economic networks in early America, 1790 -1807

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Author
Wenger, Diane E.,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Call Number
381.1 W474
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Responsibility
Diane E. Wenger.
ISBN
9780271034126 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271034122 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Wenger, Diane E.,
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
x, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction: a country storekeeper and his network of relationships -- Beyond "wild forest people": Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania -- The Rex Store and its local customers -- Feeding the furnaces: the iron community and the Rex Store -- "Orders thankfully received, and carefully executed": Rex and the Philadelphia merchants -- A life of "comparative ease" -- Epilogue: Rex's network and its significance.
Summary
"Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Rex, Samuel, - d.1835.
General stores - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Merchants - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Business networks - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Commerce - History - 18th century.
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Economic conditions - 18th century.
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
381.1 W474
Websites
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008017894.html
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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, 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

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Author
Watson, John F.
Date of Publication
1891.
Call Number
974.811 W339
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By John F. Watson ... Enlarged, with many revisions and additions, by Willis P. Hazard...
Author
Watson, John F.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
E. S. Stuart,
Date of Publication
1891.
Physical Description
3 v. fronts., illus., plates, port. 25 cm.
Notes
The third volume of this ed. was prepared at the publisher's request, by W. P. Hazard.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Hazard, Willis P.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.811 W339
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Trade in strangers : The beginnings of mass migration to North America

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Author
Wokeck, Marianne Sophia.
Date of Publication
c1999.
Call Number
304.8 W847.
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Responsibility
by Marianne Wokeck.
ISBN
0271018321 (cloth : acidfree paper)
0271018348 (pbk.)
Author
Wokeck, Marianne Sophia.
Place of Publication
University Park
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c1999.
Physical Description
xxx, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Contents: 1. German long - distance migration / 2. The flow and composition of German immigration to the American colonies / 3. The trade in migrants / 4. The ordeal of relocation / 5.Irish immigration to the Delaware Valley / Conclusion : A model for the modern era / Appendix : German immigration voyages 1683 to 1775
Summary
"Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass trans-oceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind-a story that is familiar to most modern Americans." [from the publisher]
Subjects
United States - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.
United States - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.
Germany - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.
Germany - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.
Ireland - Emigration and immigration - History - 17th century.
Ireland - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
304.8 W847.
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The Pennsylvania militia : the early years, 1669-1792

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Author
Newland, Samuel J.
Date of Publication
c1997.
Call Number
974.8 N549
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Responsibility
Samuel J. Newland.
Author
Newland, Samuel J.
Place of Publication
Annville, Pa
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xi, 173 p., 14 p. of plates : ill. (mostly col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173).
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Militia - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History, Military - 18th century.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8 N549
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A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 : in which is sketched a history of that church and congregation from 1741 to the present time

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Author
Timlow, P. J.
Date of Publication
[1892]
Call Number
285.1 L434
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Responsibility
by P.J. Timlow.
Author
Timlow, P. J.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Daily intelligencer Print.,
Date of Publication
[1892]
Physical Description
55 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cover title: A history of the Leacock Presbyterian church and congregation of Leacosk, Lancaster County, Pa.
Subjects
Leacock Presbyterian Church (Leacock, Pa. : Township) - History.
Thanksgiving Day addresses.
Leacock (Pa. : Township) - Church history.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.
Additional Author
Timlow, P. J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
285.1 L434
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