An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania in America : the richness of the soil, the sweetness of the situation ... the first planters, the Dutch, Sweeds, and English with the number of its inhabitants : as also a touch upon George Keith's new religion, in his second change since he left the Quakers : with a map
The army and navy of America : containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War : independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea : enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes and embellished with engravings
Battles of the United States, by sea and land: embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war: with important official documents
Title pages, preface, and content for the 2v. issue bound at the end of division 5.
LCHS has vols. 1 and 2 only.
Summary
Volume I - Covers the Revolutionary War from Lexington to Yorktown surrender
Volume II - Begins with the defeat of General Harman by native Americans in the Ohio Territory in 1790 and concludes with General Scott's campaign in 1847 in the Mexican War.
The book of old ships and something of their evolution and romance, wherein will be found drawings and descriptions of many varieties of vessels, both long and round, showing their development from most remote times; the portraiture of their progress, their garnishment, etc., etc., together with divers dissertations upon the origins of shipping; also an appendix wherein will be discovered to the inquisitive much information appertaining to the ancient uses and customs of the sea and mariners
illustrated in line and color with a variety of original designs of shipping compiled from authentic sources drawn by Gordon Grant; text by Henry B. Culver.
3 p. l., xi-xxiv p., 1 l., 306 p. incl. illus., plates (part col.) col. front. 29 cm.
Notes
Illustrated lining-papers.
Descriptive text on verso of frontispiece.
Contents
Chapters: The Galleass --Part II: Round ships --Round ships --A Greek merchantman --A medieval ship --A thirteenth century English warship --An early Fifteenth century merchant ship -- The carrack -- Late Fifteenth century ship -- An early sixteenth century ship -- The hulk -- The caravel -- The galleon -- An Elizabethan ship of 1588 -- The cromster -- A late Sixteenth century English ship -- An early Seventeenth century Dutch merchant ship -- The Buss -- The Dutch galliot -- An English sixty-gun ship of about the year 1960 -- The flute -- A late Seventeenth century French ship of the first rate -- A Dutch ship of the end of the Seventeenth century -- The ketch -- An Eighteenth century seventy-four gun ship -- An East Indiaman of 1750 -- The lugger -- The howker -- The bugalet -- An eighteenth century Frigate -- The Felucca -- The Barque provenc?ale -- The tartane -- The Norwegian cat -- The bilander -- The fire ship -- The pink -- The patache -- Polacre -- The Xebec -- The sai?que -- A capital ship of 1820 -- A frigate of 1820 -- The brig -- The snow -- The brigantine -- Extracts from the log of the ship "Felicity" -- The corvette -- The topsail schooner -- The goe?lette -- The packet ship -- A new Bedford whaling bark -- The Barquentine -- Clipper ship of 1850 -- The modern super ship.
Boyd's Lancaster county business directory. The names of the citizens of Lancaster: state, county, and city record; and an appendix of much useful information. 1859-60
BUNDLING. "A man and a woman lying on the same bed with their clothes on; an expedient practiced in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such occasions, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters."—Grose, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. BUNDLE, v.i. "To sleep on the same bed without undressing; applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping."—Webster, 1864. BUNDLE, v.n. "To sleep together with the clothes on."—Worcester, 1864.
Bundling was an important part of American courting life, enjoyed by all good country maids and men and blessed by honest folk. During the nineteenth century, many ttlefiedelders clothed bundling in a licentious mantle, and a dark veil was drawn over the subject. Henry Reed Stiles, no believer in the theory that objectionable portions of history should be kept in the shadows, here defrocks these misconceptions and sheds light on this lost American custom and its origins. This book was banned in Boston in 1872. [from Rowman and Littlefied publishing]
Includes the camp -fire on the Susquehanna (p. 268).
Contents
Chapters: Dorchester Heights -- Cambridge -- Mount Independence -- Long Island -- Skippack Creek -- Germantown -- Valley Forge -- Whitemarsh -- White Plains -- Saratoga -- Middlebrook -- On The Susquehanna -- Springfield -- Morristown -- Old Pedee -- The Swamp -- Hills of Santee -- Near Charlestown -- Officer's Carouse
Summary
"Here we have the incidents of various battles, and the exploits of chieftains, told as if by eyewitnesses, and told in the familiar, easily comprehended language of the farmer and mechanic soldiers of the American army." [from the preface]
