Delivered by Redmond Conyngham, at the Lyceum celebration, Fourth of July 1842, at Paradise. With an appendix containing a history of the Piquaws, with a notice of Tanawa, an Indian King of great celebrity. To which is appended anecdotes of William Penn, with the names of the early settlers and dates of settlement.
Contains Matthew and Mark only; apparently all published.
Druckfehler und Verbesserungen: p. [426]-428.
From the collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P98.38.5.
Two items, a small basket-weave scherenschnitte on small rectangle of white paper and a small heart-shaped cut-out with five rows of letters inked in cross stitch style, and scored width-wise five times in Heritage Center folder.
Tipped into inside cover: bookplate in brown ink on wove paper with double ink border reading in German: Magadalena Eby the daughter of Abraham Eby and his wife Susanna was born on June 22 in the year1817.
Tipped into inside back cover is a fraktur drawing of ink and watercolor (green, brown, and red) with a border resembling fish scales; the center is a potted, flowering plant with a large bird perched on top and two smaller ones at the side; at the lower left corner is written in German script: "Elias Burbacher."
History of Lancaster and York Counties : from the earliest settlements made within them; in the former, from 1709; in the latter from 1719, to the present time; to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, from A.D., 1681, to the year 1710: with an appendix
"History of York County, from one thousand seven hundred and nineteen to the present time...by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., G. Hills, 1845": p. [526]--743.