100 years at Warrington : York County, Pennsylvania Quakers marriages, removals, births & deaths : Newberry, Warrington, Menallen, Huntington, and York meetings
Abstracts of Pennsylvania records of naturalizations, 1695-1773, found in Colonial records (Minutes of the Provincial Council), volumes 1, 2, 3, 9 & 10, The statutes at large of Pennsylvania, volumes II, III, IV, VI, VII & VIII, Pennsylvania archives, series 1, volumes 1, 3 & 4 : with surname index
Cover title continues: Marriages, births, deaths from the earliest records through 1800 of the Dutch Reformed, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Roman Catholics and Reformed (German).
Introduction signed: F. Edward Wright.
Includes index.
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Bibliography: p. x.
Contents
Lower Bermudian Church -- Upper Bermudian "Ground Oak: Church -- Christ's Church (Episcopal), York Springs -- Bender's Church (Lutheran and Reformed) -- Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church (Conewago), Littlestown -- Abbottstown Reformed Church (Emanuel Reformed) -- Arendtsville Lutheran and Reformed Congregations -- Dutch Reformed of Conewago -- Rock Creek / United Presbyterian Congregation of Gettysburg -- Minutes of the Upper Marsh (Marsh Creek Gettysburg) Presbyterians -- Register of Births and Deaths of Menallen Monthly Meeting (Quaker) -- Excerpts from diary of Rev. John Cuthbertson -- St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germany Township -- Conewago Chapel, Edge Grove (Roman Catholic)
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
Collection consists largely of information on the descendants of Edward Hand and on the Hand Family Reunion. Contains correspondence, genealogical materials, family charts, photographs, and commemorative booklet 1912, on Lancaster County in the Revolutionary War. Also, three documents concerning the settling of the Hand estate.
