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The 200th anniversary of the Lititz Moravian congregation sanctuary

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo41

Date of Publication: 1987

Call Number: 284.6 L776a

Place of Publication: Lititz, Pa

Publisher: The Church

Date of Publication: 1987

Physical Description: unp. ill. 23 cm.

Subjects: Moravian Church, Lititz, Warwick Twp., Pa.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.6 L776a

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18954

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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Responsibility: by a Captain of volunteers.

Author: Captain of volunteers.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: H. Packer & Co. ...,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: [2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.

Notes: This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.; 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]

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Mexican War, 1846-1848.; California - Description and travel.; California - History - 1846-1850.; Mexico, North - Description and travel.; California - Annexation to the United States.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 979.4403 C254

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American colonial wealth : documents and methods

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3547

Author: Jones, Alice Hanson,

Edition: Second ed.

Date of Publication: c1978.

Call Number: 339.4 J76

Responsibility: by Alice Hanson Jones ; with a foreword by Stuart Bruchey.

ISBN: 0405055463 :

Author: Jones, Alice Hanson,

Edition: Second ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Arno Press,

Date of Publication: c1978.

Physical Description: 3 v. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Wealth - United States; United States - Economic conditions - To 1865 - Sources.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 339.4 J76

American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1209

Author: Smith, John Jay,

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 973.3 S651 Oversize

Responsibility: Collected and ed. by J. Jay Smith and John F. Watson.

Author: Smith, John Jay,

Edition: 3rd ed. :

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Lloyd P. Smith,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1. : ill. (65 pl.) ; 35 x 28 cm.

Notes: The plates, part printed on both sides, include 1 mounted illustration and 2 mounted portraits.; Includes letter of Robert Fulton; poem and profiles cut by John Andre.

Subjects: Autographs - United States; United States - History - Revolution - Sources.

Additional Author: Watson, John F.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.3 S651 Oversize

Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1916.

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

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Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1916.

Physical Description: 155-194 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 20, no. 7

Subjects: Legal documents - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Tax assessment - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Deeds - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 20, number 7 (1916), p. 155-194Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.20

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vol20no7pp155_194_937411.pdf

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The 200th anniversary of the Lititz Moravian congregation sanctuary

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American colonial wealth : documents and methods

American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs

Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729

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Assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt, Esq. of Lancaster, Pa. ... : valuable collection of autograph letters and historical documents ... to be sold ... January 31, 1911

Autographs, old historical, topographical and genealogical letters and documents relating to Pennsylvania or to Pennsylvanians : for sale by C.W. Unger, Pottsville, Pa

Bart 1750-1826 [Tax records]

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Bart Friends Meeting House (1825)

Bart Township. 1935