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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Act concerning bridge

Object ID: Bridge F0425 I012

Date Range: 1812

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Act concerning bridge

Description: [Witmer's Bridge]; [Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.]; Location: Over Conestoga Creek.; Document type: Act concerning bridge

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1812

Year: 1812

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0006

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Acts, Legislative; Bridges; Conestoga Creek; Creeks; Lampeter Twp.; Lancaster Twp.; Witmer's Bridge

Place: Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.

Extent: 1 item, 1 piece

Object Name: Act

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0425 I012

Box Number: 006

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: 1811.

Call Number: Bookk 306 1811

Responsibility: By John Purdon, Junr.

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Physical Description: xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.; Last page blank.; "The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.; "The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.; "Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.; "Index."--p. [587]-637.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.; Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,

Subjects: Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.; Annotations and citations (Law) - Pennsylvania.; Constitutions - United States.; Constitutions - Pennsylvania.; Annotations and citations (Law); Constitutions.; Law.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; Leather bindings (Binding); Blind tooled leather (Binding); Fillet tools (Binding); Lettering pieces (Binding); Gold tooled leather (Binding); Digests.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Purdon, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.; United States.; Pennsylvania.; Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co.,; Fry and Kammerer,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Bookk 306 1811

An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes, who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775

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Author: Henry, John Joseph,

Date of Publication: 1812.

Call Number: 090 L244g 1812

Responsibility: by John Joseph Henry, Esq.

Author: Henry, John Joseph,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: printed by William Greer ,

Date of Publication: 1812.

Physical Description: 225 p. ; 16 cm.

Subjects: Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776.; United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244g 1812

An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

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Date of Publication: [1812?].

Call Number: Book 461 n.d.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed at the United States' Gazette

Date of Publication: [1812?].

Physical Description: 24 pages ; 22 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Signature: To Judge Yeates from his obet., James Milner [partially clipped]; Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, exquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.; Shaw & Shoemaker,

Subjects: Politics and government; United States - Politics and government - 1812-1815.; United States.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Congress. House.; Federal Party (U.S.)

Place: United States Connecticut Hartford.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 461 n.d.

An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. To which are added, animadversions on certain remarks made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White, in a series of discourses delivered before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester in England. Also, Strictures on Lord Kaims' [sic] discourse on the original diversity of mankind. And an appendix

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Author: Smith, Samuel Stanhope,

Edition: The 2d ed., enl. and improved.

Date of Publication: 1810.

Call Number: 816 S659

Author: Smith, Samuel Stanhope,

Edition: The 2d ed., enl. and improved.

Place of Publication: New-Brunswick [N. J.]

Publisher: Published by J. Simpson and Co.; [etc., etc.] L. Deare, printer,

Date of Publication: 1810.

Physical Description: 411 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Strictures on Lord Kaims' [i. e. Kames'] discourse on the original diversity of mankind": p. [307]-349.; "Appendix. Of the natural bravery and fortitude of the American Indians": p. [351]-411.; First published in Philadelphia in 1787.; "Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this essay, by Mr. Charles White" (p. [247]-306) was published in London in 1799 under title: An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables.

Subjects: Kames, Henry Home, - Lord.; White, Charles, - 1728-1813.; Kames, Henry Home, - Lord, - 1696-1782.; Anthropology; Monogenism and polygenism.; Human skin color.; Indians.

Additional Corporate Author: American Philosophical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 816 S659

Announcement

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Notice to Daniel Gibbons

Object ID: MG0846_F014

Date Range: 1818/10/07

, Joseph Hamilton, James Hertzkey, John Kendall, John Kirk, Jeremiah Lightfoot, Jepthat Miller, Eliza Miller, John Reynolds, Margaret Stauffer, Christian Steer, Joseph Stevens, Thaddeus Thomas, William B. Wartnaby, Elizabeth Subject Headings: Business records Deeds Letters Mills and millwork Quakers

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Notice to Daniel Gibbons

Description: Notice from Deputy-Marshall D. [ ____ ] to Mr. Daniel Gibbons demanding annexation of specified goods and a fine from the property of $96 or "a quantity of corn in the field" assessed by Pennsylvania on behalf of the U.S. government. Served 7 October 1818.

Date Range: 1818/10/07

Creation Date: 7 October 1818

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Gibbons, Daniel

Subjects: Fines and recoveries; Legal documents

Search Terms: Legal documents; Notices

Extent: 1 items, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Announcement

Language: English

Object ID: MG0846_F014

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records (MG0846), Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available.; Original documents may be used by appointment--contact research@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846, Folder 14

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notice of meeting to estimate cost of bridge

Object ID: Bridge F0430 I001

Date Range: 1812

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notice of meeting to estimate cost of bridge

Description: [Witmer's Bridge]; [Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.]; Location: Over Conestoga Creek.; Document type: Notice of meeting to estimate cost of bridge

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1812

Year: 1812

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0006

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Announcements; Bridges; Conestoga Creek; Creeks; Estimates; Lampeter Twp.; Lancaster Twp.; Meetings; Witmer's Bridge

Place: Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.

Extent: 2 items, 2 pieces

Object Name: Announcement

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0430 I001

Box Number: 006

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

Announcement

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notification of appointment of Commissioners on behalf of Abraham Witmer

Object ID: Bridge F0430 I002

Date Range: 1812

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Notification of appointment of Commissioners on behalf of Abraham Witmer

Description: [Witmer's Bridge]; [Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.]; Location: Over Conestoga Creek.; Document type: Notification of appointment of Commissioners on behalf of Abraham Witmer

System of Arrangement: Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.

Date Range: 1812

Year: 1812

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0006

People: Witmer, Abraham

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Bridges; Conestoga Creek; Creeks; Lampeter Twp.; Lancaster Twp.; Announcements; Witmer's Bridge

Place: Lampeter Twp. and Lancaster Twp.

Extent: 1 item, 1 piece

Object Name: Announcement

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0430 I002

Box Number: 006

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

Archive

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Object ID: MG0205

Date Range: 1699-1934

location of each book. Please use photocopy. Folder 32b Catalogue of Law Books belonging to Jasper Yeates. Lists names of books, how they were acquired and the cost. Folder 33 Account book of Jasper Yeates. Accounting includes purchases for the household, services, advancements to children, and family

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Description: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.

Date Range: 1699-1934

Year Range From: 1699

Year Range To: 1934

Date of Accumulation: 1699-1934

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Atkinson, Matthew; Bausman, William; Bond, Phineas; Bowman, Valentine; Bradford, W.; Brien, Edward; Burd, Edward; Carson, John; Coates, Samuel; Conyngham, David; Conyngham, Elizabeth Yeates; Conyngham, Redmond; Dallas, George M.; Davis, Jonathan; Davison, Benjamin; Dickey, Robert; Duncannon, Thomas; Edward, Thomas; Erter, Henry; Ewing, John; Ferguson, John; Fohren, Michael; Gibson, John; Gillchrist, John; Godcharles, Frederic A.; Graff, Conrad; Gregg, Andrew; Grubb, Peter; Hamilton, Charles; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, John; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hand, Jasper; Hayes, A. L.; Henry, John; Hess, David; Jago, John; Javin, William; Keeportz, Daniel; Kittera, William; Kremer, Philip; Krug, Jacob; Kurtz, William; Lindsay, William; Loudersmith, Wendel; Lyon, Joseph Barnet; Magaw, David; Marshall, J.; McClellan, John; McKean, Thomas; Millar, John; Miller, Michael; Minich, Henry; Muhlenberg, William Augustus; Nesbitt, John; Nissley, Martin; Ord, John; Philips, David; Postlethwaite, John; Poultney, Thomas; Price, Eli K.; Probst, John; Ramsey, Robert; Rawle, William; Riegart, Adam; Rine, Widow; Ross, George; Ross, J.; Scott, James; Sergeant, Thomas; Shippen, Edward; Shippen, Evans Wallis; Shippen, Robert; Simpson, John; Smith, Charles; Smith, Mary Yeates; Stein, Charles; Steinman, Fredrick; Stevenson, Henry; Stewart, Charles; Sturmii, Johannis Christophorus; Thomas, John; Tilghman, Benjamin C.; Tilghman, E.; Tilghman, Edward; Tilghman, William; Tilghman, William B.; Towson, William; Underwood, John; Wallace, George; Wallace, William; Waln, Nicholas; Warden, J.; White, William; Wickersham, Elijah; Willson, Samuel; Yeates, Catharine; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, Jasper, Jr.; Yeates, John, Jr.; Yeates, John, Sr.; Yeates, Margaret; Yeates, Sarah Burd "Sally"; Zantzinger, Paul

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Family records; Law libraries; Letters; Library catalogs; Wills

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Family records; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Wills

Extent: 6 boxes, 49 folders, 13 books, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0205

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Yeates, Aungst Collection (MG0206); Yeates, Carson Collection (MG0207); George M. Steinman Collection (MG0184); Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library; Objects in the Curatorial Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-205

Classification: MG0205

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.

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Act

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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21067

An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes, who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775

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An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

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Announcement

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Announcement

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Announcement

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Archive

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Archive

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