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]
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.
Das neue und verbesserte Gesang-Buch : worinnen die Psalmen Davids samt einer Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder sowohl für privat und Hausandachten, als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind : nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus, wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter
"Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder ..."--[8], 585, [10] p., with separate t.p.
"Catechismus, oder kurzer Unterricht christlicher Lehre ..."--P. [11-43], last count.
Copy 1 inscription on inside front cover: "This book was used by Marie Salome Le Roy Hall-Schnickel; born 1742 - died 1817. She was a daughter of Abram Le Roy and became wife of Charles Hall. After his death she was married to ____Schinckel. She was the Great-Great-Grandmother of Marion E. Breneman, of Dayton, Ohio. The line of descent being as follows: Salome Le Roy Hall, Elizabeth Hall Ford, Marian Ford Breneman, Edward Breneman, Marion E. Bredneman".
A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd
On the massacre of the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxton Boys" and the Indian policy of the Pennsylvania authorities.
"Signed on behalf of ourselves, and by appointment of a great number of the frontier inhabitants. Matthew Smith. James Gibson. February 13th, 1764"--Page 18.
Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Evans.
Signatures: A-B4 C2 (C2 blank).
Reproduction from Library of Congress by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions, date not specified.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Summary
These documents were created by representatives of the Paxton Boys as a written defence of their massacre of the Conestoga Indians. "A Declaration" was written before the Paxton Boys arrived in Germantown, and Matthew Smith and James Gibson completed the "Remonstrance" on February 13. Both documents were later published together as "A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania". This book is a facsimile of an early published copy of the texts.
Journal of the first session of the tenth House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Commonwealth the twenty-fourth
"Appendix. Receipts and expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, from the first of January to the thirty-first of December, 1799, both days inclusive."--Page 59, [1] p. at end, with separate title page.
"Report of the register-general of the state of Pennsylvania for the year 1799"--18 p. at end, with separate title page.
Journal of the House of representatives of the United States, at the first session of the Second Congress. ; Anno M,DCC,XCI, and of the independence of the United States the sixteenth
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Laws enacted in the first sitting of the eleventh General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on the twenty third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. LIX-LXIV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. I-IV signed and enacted in the months of November and December by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Samuel Bryan, clerk of the General Assembly.