Introduction / Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Foreword / June Burk Lloyd -- Slavery in Pennsylvania and the early abolitionist movement -- The early growth of the Underground Railroad -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania -- An open pathway for fugitives -- From discord toward dissolution -- The bloody road to emancipation -- Afterword / James McClure -- Appendix A : Reported Underground Railroad conductors in York County -- Appendix B : The slaveholder's prayer.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. : Republished, under the authority of the legislature. : With notes and references. : In four volumes. Vol. I[-V]
Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1810[-1812].
Physical Description
5 v. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Title of v. 4-5 varies: Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred. Republished, under the authority of the legislature. With notes and references. Vol. IV[-V].
"The Governor be, and he hereby is authorized and required to receive proposals, and contract with John Bioren, for thirteen hundred and fifty copies of his proposed edition of the Acts of Assembly of this commonwealth, to the end of the present session of the legislature, to be printed correctly on good paper, with entirely new small pica type, in four volumes royal octavo, of six hundred pages, each well bound and lettered, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per volume ... approved--the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten. Simon Snyder."--V. 1, p. [iii].
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... John Bioren is hereby authorized to close the fourth volume of the new edition of the laws with the laws of the session of one thousand eight hundred and seven-eight; and that all the laws subsequently passed, and which may be passed during the present session, shall be published and included in a fifth volume ... approved--the seventeeth [sic] day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Simon Snyder."--V. 4, verso of title page.
Vol. 5 has imprint date: 1812.
Vol. 1: lix, [1], 560 p.; v. 2: xxvi, 622 p.; v. 3: xliv, 556 p.; v. 4: xix, [1], 563, [1] p.; v. 5: xxxi, [5], 445, [1], 393, [1] p. Last p. of v. 4-5 blank.
Error in paging: v. 3, p. xxxvii misnumbered xxxvi.
"General index to the laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. From the year 1700, to the thirty-first of March, 1812, inclusive. Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, no. 88 Chesnut-street. 1812"--V. 5, 393 p., 3rd count. Also recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 26410.
Shaw & Shoemaker records v. 1-4 as entry 21026, and the complete set as entry 26414.
With a separate index to each of v. 1-4.
"Constitution of the United States of America."--V. 3, p. [xxvi]-xxxv.
"Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania."--V. 3, p. [xxxvi]-xliv.
"Certificate, notes, & extracts, by the secretary of the land-office."--V. 5, p. [x]-xxxi.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three, and of the independence of the United States of America the twenty-eighth. : Volume XIV
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--Page 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--Page 478.
Report of a committee 21 pages printed by William Hamilton.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Full tooled leather binding with maroon title on spine.
Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty-third
Journal of the session which began Dec. 6, 1808 and concluded April 4, 1809.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 30 as assigned by Yeates.
"Index to the Journal of the nineteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--8, [2], 40 p., has separate t.p. with imprint: Lancaster Printed by Benjamin Grimler, 1809.
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Lancaster, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten
