Skip header and navigation

Revise Search

3 records – page 1 of 1.

The federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail, adapted to the federal money

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20872
Author
Fenning, Daniel.
Edition
The first edition.
Date of Publication
1793.
Call Number
513.9 P544 1793
Author
Fenning, Daniel.
Edition
The first edition.
Place of Publication
Chesnuthill [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by Samuel Sower,
Date of Publication
1793.
Physical Description
[128] p., [5] folded leaves of plates ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Title continues: shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from half a cent to one dollar and upwards, either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value in federal money of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Evans attributes to Daniel Fenning.
Signatures: pi² A-P⁴ Q².
Withdrawn from Franklin and Marshall College.
Evans
Subjects
Business mathematics - Tables.
Ready-reckoners - Early works to 1800.
Ready-reckoners.
Early works.
Full-leather with wrap-around stitched cover [Binding]
Additional Author
Trumbull, J. Hammond
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
513.9 P544 1793
Less detail

The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19629
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Call Number
220 E48 1796
Responsibility
translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, and the Apocrypha, with marginal references.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Berriman & Co. by Jacob R. Berriman,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description
[752] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 42 cm
Notes
The New Testament (p. [589-735]) has separate title page.
Signatures: pi² B-9C² 9D¹.
Printed in two columns. Plates engraved by Francis Shallus, Alexander Anderson, Cornelius Tiebout, William Rollinson, and Amos Doolittle.
Includes index.
Pasted on the inside cover are obituaries, a will, and a photograph of a child.
Manuscript of marriages and deaths of the Ellmaker family on two front flyleaves.
Obituaries, oath of allegience and genealogy information in back inside cover.
Loose items removed to MG-399, Ellmaker family bible include: Reward of merit presented to Miss Savina Maines June 3, 1842 by Samuel Cowen, instructor, a newspaper clipping "A cure for small-pox" removed from New Testament title page and an envelope addressed to J. Watson Ellmaker, Intercourse, Lancaster Co., Pa.
Viewing bible contingent on staff availibility, an appointment may be required.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Old Testament -- New Testament of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised with marginal references.
Subjects
Bible records - Massachusetts.
Leather bindings.
Gold tooled bindings.
Marbled papers.
Additional Author
Shallus, Francis.
Anderson, Alexander,
Tiebout, Cornelius,
Rollinson, William,
Doolittle, Amos,
Berriman, Jacob R.
Ellmaker family
Buffum family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Bible
Call Number
220 E48 1796
Less detail

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Less detail