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The Acadians in Lancaster County

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1897

exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

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Responsibility: by S. M. Sener, Esq.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [37]-43 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 2

Summary: This journal article details the expulsion of the French Acadians of Canada to the American Colonies during the French and Indian War. Some of the Acadians arrive in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Subjects: Acadians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 2 (1897), p. 37-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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Acts of Assembly concerning the Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Road

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Date of Publication: 1893.

Call Number: 625.71 E43

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Printed by John Baer,

Date of Publication: 1893.

Physical Description: 17 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Highway law - Pennsylvania.; Roads - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 625.71 E43

Addresses delivered before the Dauphin County Historical Society in the State Capitol, Harrisburg, July 4, 1876

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Date of Publication: 1876

Call Number: 974.818 D242a

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Place of Publication: Harrisburg? Pa

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1876

Physical Description: 85 p. ; 26 cm.

Series: [Contributions to the historical literature of Dauphin County ; v. 1]

Contents: Ecclesiastical history of Dauphin County / by Thomas H. Robinson -- The Revolutionary soldiers of Dauphin County / by A. Boyd Hamilton -- Historical review of Dauphin County / by William H. Egle.

Subjects: Dauphin County (Pa.) - Church history.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Robinson, Thomas Hastings,; Hamilton, A. Boyd; Egle, William Henry,

Additional Corporate Author: Dauphin County Historical Society (Dauphin County, Pa.).

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.818 D242a

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Addresses of Hon. John Wanamaker and ex-Gov. Robt. E. Pattison

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Date of Publication: 1896?.

Call Number: 267.3 W244

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa. ]

Publisher: s.n.

Date of Publication: 1896?.

Physical Description: 19 [5] p. : Ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Speeches giving in support of the new building of the YMCA.

Subjects: Wanamaker, John, - 1838-1922.; Pattison, Robert Emory, - 1850-1904.; Young Men's Christian Associations - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 267.3 W244

Affidavit

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Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Object ID: Veterans F01 I04

Collection: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Title: Veterans' Peddlers Licenses

Description: Record of applications for peddlers' licenses showing date of application, name of applicant, type of license, and dates granted and lifted. Many applications for soldiers' licenses; these are peddlers' licenses issued to honorably discharged veterans. Handwritten.

System of Arrangement: Organized by year, then alphabetically by surname.

Year: 1899

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0001

People: May, Henry

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Veterans' Peddlers License; Civil War; Petitions

Object Name: Affidavit

Language: English

Condition: Good

Object ID: Veterans F01 I04

Box Number: 001

Additional Notes: Petition.; 203rd Regiment, Company A, Pennsylvania Volunteers.; Civil War.; 1 item, 1 piece

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

Classification: RG 02-00 0601

Description Level: Item

Agreement

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 6 Hiram B. Swarr

Title: Copy of an agreement for the delivery of papers of James Buchanan

Object ID: JBFP 6.2.1.071

Date Range: 1871/02/00

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 6 Hiram B. Swarr

Title: Copy of an agreement for the delivery of papers of James Buchanan

Description: Copy of an agreement between the executors of James Buchanan and Henry E. Johnston and Harriet Lane Johnston for the delivery of papers of James Buchanan now at Wheatland. Lancaster. [February 1871].

Date Range: 1871/02/00

Creator: Pennsylvania. Orphans' Court (Lancaster County)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 6, Box 2

People: Buchanan, James; Johnston, Harriet Lane; Johnston, Henry Elliot

Subjects: Beneficiaries; Contracts; Executors and administrators

Search Terms: Agreements; Beneficiaries; Buchanan Collections; Executors and administrators; Harriet Lane Johnston; James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 25 x 19.5 cm.

Object Name: Agreement

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 6 Series 2

Object ID: JBFP 6.2.1.071

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1995.365

Other Number: JBFP Part 6, Series 2, Subseries 1, Folder 71

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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