This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. [from the publisher]
"More a reference book than a book you read straight through, this book advances the fascinating thesis that four groups of immigrants from England ( Albion ) essentially set much of what we now regard as American culture. The links between these four waves of immigrants from particular parts of England, and the Yankee, patrician Virginia, Quaker/Philadelphia, and Appalachian hill cultures, are documented.Its fascinating to see traits that seem inexplicable and odd traced back to obscure corners of 17th and 18th century England. We're talking about the way houses look, the way people get married, their attitude toward government, you name it." [from GoodReads]
Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
The Yeates, Carson Collection covers several generations and a variety of topics and gives insight into family and local social history from 1700-1874. The items in the collection include business and legal papers, receipts, estate accounts, correspondence, a biographical sketch of Jasper Yeates' grandfather, land surveys, indentures, financial records, and land agreements. The collection also contains a list of books sent to Phineas Bond for binding, certificates with seals, copies of poems, eviction notices, and requests for items to be delivered to Simon Girty and others in 1776.
MG0205 Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection
MG0206 Yeates, Aungst Collection
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org for permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-207
Classification
MG0207
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to database 6 August 2022.
Includes a 6-county area (Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks,York, Lancaster & Chester) with small black squares marking locations of banks. Around periphery are 6 drawings, one from each county: State capitol bldg., Cornwall Furnace, Boone Homestead, Valley Forge Arch, Rock Ford Plantation and Gold Plough Tavern & General Gates House.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mi. : University Microfilms, 1984. 21 cm.
Contents
1. Beginnings of Community development -- 2. Problems and prospects of family reconstitution and cohort analysis -- 3. Marital patterns and family structure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before 1741 -- 4. Duration of marriages, fertility , and family sizes: Couples married before 1741 -- 5. Mortality in early eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- 6. Marriage and family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1741-1770 -- 7. Marital relations, fertility, and family sizes: Couples married, 1741-1770 -- 8. Mortality in the middle decades of the eighteenth century: Lancaster County, 1741-1770 -- 9. Nuptiality in the social context of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1880 -- 10. Marriage, remarriage, and marital fertility in Lancaster County, 1771-1800 -- 1. Mortality in the Revolutionary era, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1771-1800 -- 12. Revolutionary transition in eighteenth century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- Appendix A: Aggregative analysis of Lancaster Pennsylvania Church records.
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. publish'd in his life-time : together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England, first publish'd by the present Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1695 : together with the life of the author
now revised by His Lordship ; to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, one, of the admiral-jurisdiction and the officers thereof, the other of antient deeds and charters ; with a compleat index to the whole.
