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African American entrepreneurs in Lancaster County

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy T.

Date of Publication: 2022.

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Responsibility: Leroy T. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy T.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: LancasterHistory,

Date of Publication: 2022.

Physical Description: 221-243

Series: Journal of Lancaster County's Historical Society, vol. 122, no. 3 (Sept. 2022)

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster (Pa.); African American business enterprises; Businesspeople

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The ambitions of William Henry

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Author: Gordon, Scott Paul.

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Responsibility: by Scott Paul Gordon.

Author: Gordon, Scott Paul.

Physical Description: p. 254-284.

Notes: This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.

Summary: HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729â€“86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a complimentâ€” most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster Countyâ€” - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]

Subjects: Henry, William, - 1729-1786.; Simon, Joseph, - 1712-1804.; Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Contained In: The Pennsylvania Magazine orf History and Biography, v. 136, no. 3.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no.3.

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https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/60720/60546

American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

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Date of Publication: 1819.

Call Number: 326 P544 1819; 326 A512

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Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by S.W. Conrad,

Date of Publication: 1819.

Physical Description: 43 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Meeting convened in Philadelphia, October 15, 1819.; Report from the Columbia, Pa. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p. 11-14.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Abolitionists - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 P544 1819; 326 A512

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Amish quilts of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12213

Author: Herr, Patricia T.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Call Number: 746.46 H564a

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Responsibility: by Patricia T. Herr.

ISBN: 0764320173 (Paperback)

Author: Herr, Patricia T.,

Place of Publication: Atglen, PA

Publisher: Schiffer Pub. Ltd.,

Date of Publication: c2004.

Physical Description: 189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Amish quilts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 746.46 H564a

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024667.html

An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition : [Three lines in Latin from Tacitus]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21687

Date of Publication: 1794.

Call Number: Book 606 1794

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Place of Publication: --New-York-- : No. 37, Hanover-Square

Publisher: Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell ;

Date of Publication: 1794.

Physical Description: 148 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 24 cm (8vo)

Notes: "To the public." signed by the editor, James Robertson.; Frontispiece portrait of Muir engraved by John Scoles.; Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.; Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.; Evans

Subjects: Muir, Thomas, - 1765-1799.; Muir, Thomas, - 1765-1799; Sedition - Scotland.; Trials (Sedition) - Scotland.; Sedition.; Trials (Sedition); Scotland.; Portraits.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Robertson, James.; Scoles, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Scotland. High Court of Justiciary.

Place: United States New York New York.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 606 1794

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http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/27633

An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15666

Author: Rathvon, Simon S.,

Date of Publication: 1866.

Call Number: 090 L244p 1866

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Responsibility: By S.S. Rathvon. To which are appended its charter, and lists of its officers, its members, and its correspondents.

Author: Rathvon, Simon S.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol & Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1866.

Physical Description: 18 p. 23 cm.

Notes: Published by request and by authority of the Society.

Subjects: Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244p 1866

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433007678281;view=1up;seq=9

An order of family prayer: by Rev. E. Greenwald

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9153

Author: Greenwald, E.

Date of Publication: 1867.

Call Number: 813 G816o

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Author: Greenwald, E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: St. Andrew's society of the Church of the Holy Trinity,

Date of Publication: 1867.

Physical Description: x, 41-180 p. : 19 cm.

Notes: The R. Theodore Bixlers' collection of Lancaster authors.

Subjects: Family; Lutheran Church

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813 G816o

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https://archive.org/details/jesusourtablegue00gree/page/n5/mode/2up

The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3980

Author: Landis, David M.

Date of Publication: 1921.

a warrant dated Dec. 25, 1701 was signed for the same. 1710 In the Taylor Papers, under date of Oct. 16, 1710, there is the original order to survey 10000 acres of land on Pequea Creek to Rudolph Bundely and others, on the authority of a warrant dated Oct. 8, same year, which is therein recited. The

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Responsibility: by David M. Landis.

Author: Landis, David M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921.

Physical Description: 5-16 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1

Subjects: Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Taylor papers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25