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Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight-nine, for the purpose of reviewing, and if they see occasion, altering and amending the constitution of this state

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Date of Publication
1789.
Call Number
Book 585 1790
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, jun. ...,
Date of Publication
1789.
Physical Description
222 p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-2N² 2O1 2P-3K².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 585 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...fifteenth day of July 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvvania...twentieth day of November 1787...Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania..twentieth-fourth day of November, 1789 - Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present constitution...Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1808.
Evans
Subjects
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
History.
Sources.
Three-quaraters leather on blue boards (Binding)
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 585 1790
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A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd

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Author
Smith, Matthew.
Date of Publication
in the year M, DCC, LXIV. [1764]
Call Number
974.802 S655
Responsibility
by Matthew Smith, James Gibson, and William Bradford.
Author
Smith, Matthew.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
Printed [by William Bradford],
Date of Publication
in the year M, DCC, LXIV. [1764]
Physical Description
(4) 18, p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
On the massacre of the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxton Boys" and the Indian policy of the Pennsylvania authorities.
"Signed on behalf of ourselves, and by appointment of a great number of the frontier inhabitants. Matthew Smith. James Gibson. February 13th, 1764"--Page 18.
Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Evans.
Signatures: A-B4 C2 (C2 blank).
Reproduction from Library of Congress by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions, date not specified.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Summary
These documents were created by representatives of the Paxton Boys as a written defence of their massacre of the Conestoga Indians. "A Declaration" was written before the Paxton Boys arrived in Germantown, and Matthew Smith and James Gibson completed the "Remonstrance" on February 13. Both documents were later published together as "A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania". This book is a facsimile of an early published copy of the texts.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Paxton Boys.
Indians of North America.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Additional Author
Gibson, James,
Bradford, William,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 S655
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Over the Alleghenies : early canals and railroads of Pennsylvania

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Author
Kapsch, Robert J.
Edition
First edition.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
386.4 K17o
Responsibility
Robert J. Kapsch.
ISBN
9781933202693 (pbk.)
1933202696 (paperback)
Author
Kapsch, Robert J.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
Morgantown, West Virginia
Publisher
West Virginia University Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
449 pages ; 26 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents 1. Early America and the Coming of the Transportation Revolution 2. The State of Pennsylvania's Program of Canals and Railroads (1826-1858) 3. The Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Canal 4. The Western Division of the Pennsylvania Canal 5. The Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal 6. The Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad 7. The Allegheny Portage Railroad 8. The Susquehanna, West Branch, and North Branch Divisions 9. The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal 10. Pittsburgh to Lake Erie -- The French Creek Division, the Beaver Division, and the Erie Extension 11. The Gettysburg Extension and the Demise of the State of Pennsylvania's Canals and Railroads Bibliography Index -- About the Author.
Summary
"Between 1826 and 1858 the state of Pennsylvania built and operated the largest and most technologically advanced system of canals and railroads in North America-almost one thousand miles of transport that stretched from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and beyond. The construction of this ambitious transportation system was accompanied with great euphoria. It was widely believed that the revenue created from these canals and railroads would eliminate the need for all taxes on state citizens. Yet with the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis much like boom and bust cycle that ended in 2008, a deep recession fell across the country.By 1856, Pennsylvania had sold all canals and railroads to private companies, often for pennies-on-the-dollar. Over the Alleghenies: Early Canals and Railroads of Pennsylvania is the definitive history of the state of Pennsylvania's incredible canal and railroad system. Although often condemned as a colossal failure, this construction effort remains an innovative, magnificent feat that ushered in modern transportation to Pennsylvania and the entire country. With extensive primary research, over one hundred illustrations, newspapers clippings, and charts and graphs, Over the Alleghenies examines and dissects the infrastructure project that bankrupted the wealthiest state in the Union. "--
Subjects
Canals - Pennsylvania
Railroads - Pennsylvania
TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History.
TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History.
ARCHITECTURE / Regional.
Canals.
Railroads.
Allegheny Mountains - History - 19th century.
Pennsylvania.
United States - Allegheny Mountains.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
386.4 K17o
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A calm appeal to the people of the state of Delaware

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Author
McKean, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1793]
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1793
Author
McKean, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr. ...,
Date of Publication
[1793]
Physical Description
22, [2] p. (last leaf blank) ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signed: Tho. McKean, Edmund Physick, Philadelphia, September 3d., 1793.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address, etc. recommendations to the states, by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783; -- An examaination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792-- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Evans
Subjects
Penn family.
Boundaries.
Delaware - History - Sources.
Delaware - Boundaries.
Delaware.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Physick, Edmund,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1793
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Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo tertio. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1772 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of February, 1773

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Call Number
Book 583 1773
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1773 Feb.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Physical Description
pages [2], 293-355, [1] ; 34 cm
Notes
Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
Pennsylvania arms on title page.
Eighteen pages of hand-written notes at end of volume.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 583 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
Bound with Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twentieth Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the highteenth# Day of February 1769, Philadelphia: D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1769 - Anno Regni Georgii II Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-fourthDay of February, 1770, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1770 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-first Day of March 1772, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1772.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Three-quarters leather on printed boards(Binding)
Title stamped on spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 583 1773
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A faithful report of the trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star : at the Bar of the Court of King's-Bench, on the twenty-eighth of May, 1794,on information an information, filed ex-officio, by the Attorney General : for the insertion of a publication of the Irish Jacobeans of Belfast, on the fifteenth of December, 1792

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Date of Publication
June, 1794.
Call Number
Book 601 1794a
Responsibility
by a Barrister.
Place of Publication
Belfast
Publisher
[publisher not identified],
Date of Publication
June, 1794.
Physical Description
vii, [1], 50 pages ; 18 cm
Notes
Samuel Neilson was the editor and chief shareholder of the 'Northern Star' ; John Rabb was its printer and publisher.
Signatures: A-G4 H1 (A1 verso, A4 verso blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 601 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten contents on cover title page.
Bound with The trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq; and Timothy Brecknock...the murder of Pat. Ran. McDonnell and Charles Hipson...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1786 - An account of the argument of counsel and director of the court on a plea of auterfois acquit..for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig , and others to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Connnel...Dublin: P,. Byrne1786 - The trial of John Magee for....libel against Richard Daly...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1790 - Ten thousand pounds damages...a report on the trial ...brought by the Reverand Charles Massy against...the Marquis of Headfort for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife...Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1804 - Trial of Fracis Bellew, esq...for appearing in arms with a mob of defenders...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794.
Subjects
Rabb, John
Neilson, Samuel, - 1761-1803
Neilson, Samuel, - 1761-1803.
Trials (Libel) - Ireland - Early works to 1800.
Trials (Seditious libel) - Ireland - Early works to 1800.
Irish newspapers - Northern Ireland - Belfast - Early works to 1800.
Irish newspapers.
Trials (Libel)
Trials (Seditious libel)
Ireland.
Northern Ireland - Belfast.
Early works.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)
Additional Author
Kilwarden, Arthur Wolfe,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 601 1794a
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A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634 to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line: the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present time ... For the use of schools

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Author
McSherry, James,
Date of Publication
1852.
Call Number
975.2 B197 1852
  1 website  
Responsibility
By James McSherry, esq.
Author
McSherry, James,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
J. Murphy & Co.; Cushings & Bailey [etc]
Date of Publication
1852.
Physical Description
418 pages 20 cm
Notes
Lists of Maryland officers in service during the revolution, 1776-1781: p. 381-393.
Discarded from the Pennsylvania Farm Museum, Lancaster, :Pa.
Subjects
Maryland. - Militia.
Maryland - History.
Untied States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Regimental histories.
History.
Annotations (Provenance)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
975.2 B197 1852
Websites
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I heard of a river: A story of the Germans in Pennsylvania

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Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
813.54 S428i
Responsibility
by Eslie Singmaster ; illustrated by Henry C. Pitz.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
J.C. Winston Co.,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Series
Land of the free series
Summary
This is a story of Hannes, a German-Lutheran boy who joined a band of Swiss Mennonites fleeing from Europe's desperate terror and poverty of the 17th century. It is a story of the perils of Hannes' journey and the improvement of his rifle, brought from his fatherland.
Subjects
Families - Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life - Juvenile fiction.
German Americans - Juvenile fiction.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania.
Juvenile works.
History.
Additional Author
Pitz, Henry C.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.54 S428i
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A general history of England : from the invasion of the Romans under Julius C©Œsar, to the late revolution in MDCLXXXVIII. Including the histories of neighbouring people and states, so far as they are connected with that of England. To which are added, five dissertations ; I. Upon the dark and faboulous ages of the British history ... II. Upon the great revolution of the English governement under Egbert, about the year 828, and its concurrent causes ... III. Upon the indipendency of the Crown of Scotland. IV. Concerning the Norman engraftments upon the English laws and governement. V. Concerning the alienation and accession of property, with the great effects they have had upon our Constitution since the reign of Henry VIII

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Author
Guthrie, William,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
Responsibility
by William Guthrie ...
Author
Guthrie, William,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street.,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Physical Description
3 volumes : maps, portraits ; folio.
Notes
Pagination: v.1: [2], iv, 962, [30] p., [5], 10 leaves of plates; v.2: [4], 1130, [22] p., 11 leaves of plates; v.3: [2], 1396, [12] p., 5 leaves of plates.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Printed marginalia.
Text printed in double columns.
V. 1 has imprint: 'London: printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLIV.'; v.2 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLVII.'; v.3 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC LI.'
V.2 has title: A general history of England, beginning with the reign of Edward the Second, and ending with that of Henry the Eighth.
V.3 has title: A general history of England, from Edward the Sixth to the restoration of King Charles the Second. With a summary of public affairs from the restoration to the time of the revolution, digested in annals.
Published in parts.
'Proposals for printing the third and last volume' was issued on 7 November 1747.
Jasper Yeate's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 5, 6, and 7 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Includes index at the end of each volume.
ESTC,
Full leather binding gold tooled around perimeters and figured gold tooling on edges of covers; spines strengthened by leather strips.
Subjects
Great Britain - History.
Great Britain.
History.
Additional Author
Browne, Daniel,
Waller, T.,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
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Laws enacted in the second sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
[1786]
Call Number
Book 588a
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Bradford,
Date of Publication
[1786]
Physical Description
[1], 10-87, [1], 4 p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: C-Y² [Z]².
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. V-XXXII signed and enacted in the months of February through April by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Handwritten index precedes text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 588 as assigned by Yeates.
With: Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the third sitting of the tenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : T. Bradford, [1786] --Pennsylvania. Laws enacted in the second sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : [T. Bradford, 1786].
Evans
ESTC
Subjects
Session laws - Pennsylvania - Early works to 1800.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Politics and government.
Session laws.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865 - Sources.
Pennsylvania.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Mifflin, Thomas,
Bryan, Samuel,
Dallas, Alexander James,
Etting, Frank M.
Bradford, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 588a
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