The book is written about an old street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on which many historic and interesting events took place - from before the Revolutionary War up to the present time. This series of sketches recounts stories of national interest as well as local tradition. [from the foreward]
(In Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Yearbook. 24 cm. v. 19 (1954), p. [33]-166)
Notes
Indians, Northwest Ordinance, economics, fur trading, lead mining, farming, timbering, sawmills, doctors and medicine, lawyers, politics, schools, missionaries, women, folklore, old stores and taverns, census, Civil War, place names and landmarks, Pennsylvania German dialect.
Contents: - Ancestors of Lewis Allen. - Life of Lewis Allen... - Lewis Denison Allen and his Descendants... - Mary Smith Allen and her Descendants. - Frances Elizabeth Allen and her Descendants. - Harriet Amelia Allen and her Descendants. - Sarah Ann Allen and her Descendants. - Frederick Lee Allen and his Descendants. - Thomas Humphrey Cushing Allen and his Descendante - Jane Cellina Allen and her Descendants. - Eleanor Caroline Allen and her Descendants.
xix, 256 p. : ill., col. coat of arms, facsims., geneal. table, port. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Summary
The book is a genealogical history of the LeFevre family in America. As Huguenots, the family was persecuted in France and many were killed. Isaac Lefevres of 1669 escaped to America and settled in Strasburg Township.