The acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered, or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city, and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province
Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1769 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-ninth day of September, 1770
Printed and sold by D. Hall, and W. Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXX. [1770]
Physical Description
p. [2], 41-50 ; (fol.)
Notes
Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
Pennsylvania arms on title page.
Hand-wriiten notes on blank page 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 Eighteen Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the Twenty-fourth 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-first Day of March, 1772, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1772 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-sixth Day of February 1773, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1773.
John Sanderson's name appears as above on t.-p. of v. 1-4.
Vols. 1-2 edited by John Sanderson, v. 3-6 by Robert Wain, jr. v. 7-9 are without editor's name, but were edited by Henry D. Gilpin, according to statement in Mrs. Eliza Gilpin's Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin, Phildelphia, 1860, p. 194. Volumes numbered on the half-titles.
A list of authors of the biographies (originally published in the New York times) may be found in Proc. of Mass. hist. soc., 1876-1877 [v. 15] p. 393.
Contents
John Hancock (v.1) ; Benjamin Franklin, George Wythe, Francis Hopkinson, Robert Treat Paine (v.2) ; Edward Rutledge, Lyman Hall, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Stockton, Button Gwinnett, Josiah Bartlett, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman (v.3) ; Thomas Heyward, George Read, William Williams, Samuel Huntington, William Floyd, George Walton, George Clymer, Benjamin Rush (v.4) ; Thomas Lynch, Jr., Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, John Witherspoon, Robert Morris (v.5) ; Arthur Middleton, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, John Penn. James Wilson, Carter Braxton, John Morton, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas McKean (v.6) ; Thomas Jefferson, William Hooper, James Smith, Charles Carroll, Thomas Nelson Jr., Joseph Hewes (v.7) ; Elbridge Gerry, Cesar Rodney, Benjamin Harrison, William Paca, George Ross, John Adams (v.8) ; Richard Henry Lee, George Taylor, John Hart, Lewis Morris, Thomas Stone, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Samuel Chase, William Ellery, Samuel Adams (v.9).
Debates and other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia : convened at Richmond, on Monday the second day of June, 1788, for the purpose of deliberating on the Constitution recommended by the grand Federal convention ; to which is prefixed the Federal Constitution
Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present Constitution, and of the convention in committee of the whole. : Also, a concise index to the Constitution itself
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, Henry Miller, 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...Philadelpha: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennshvania...Philadelphia: Zacharia Poulson, 1789 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,..Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1789. - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...the twenty-fourth day of November 1790.
