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Abstract of the laws of Pennsylvania, now in force, relative to excise. July, 1786

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21659
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXXVI. [1786]
Call Number
Book 591 1786
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Responsibility
Taken from a digest of John Nicholson, Esquire, comptroller-general for the state of Pennsylvania.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head in Market Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description
60 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴ H².
LCHO's copy: Title page lacking.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 591 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817, - former owner.
Internal revenue - Pennsylvania.
Liquor traffic - Pennsylvania.
Internal revenue.
Pennsylvania.
Linen covers (Binding)
Spine repaired (Binding)
Additional Author
Nicholson, John,
Aitken, Robert,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 591 1786
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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

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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
Websites
https://archive.org/details/altcaliforniembr00strerich/page/n7/mode/2up
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American colonial wealth : documents and methods

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Author
Jones, Alice Hanson,
Edition
Second ed.
Date of Publication
c1978.
Call Number
339.4 J76
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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
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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

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Author
Smith, John Jay,
Edition
3rd ed. :
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
973.3 S651 Oversize
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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
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Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1916.
have never been returned. The Quarter Sessions and road and Common Pleas records are here be- cause they are in docket form. But the old Common Pleas dockets are very frail. The first Commissioners' minute book is in fine condition. Returning to the documents relating to our county before 1729, we may
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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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Assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt, Esq. of Lancaster, Pa. ... : valuable collection of autograph letters and historical documents ... to be sold ... January 31, 1911

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Corporate Author
Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
Date of Publication
1911]
Call Number
017.7 S818
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Responsibility
catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels.
Corporate Author
Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Stan. V. Henkels,
Date of Publication
1911]
Physical Description
74 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 26 cm.
Series
Catalogue / Stan. V. Henkels ; no. 1023
Subjects
Steigerwalt, Charles.
Autographs - Collections.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
017.7 S818
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Autographs, old historical, topographical and genealogical letters and documents relating to Pennsylvania or to Pennsylvanians : for sale by C.W. Unger, Pottsville, Pa

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Date of Publication
[19--?]
Call Number
010.091 U57
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Place of Publication
Pottsville, Pa
Publisher
C.W. Unger,
Date of Publication
[19--?]
Physical Description
38 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Title from cover.
"List 946".
Subjects
Unger, C.W.
Autographs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
010.091 U57
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Battles of the United States, by sea and land: embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war: with important official documents

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Author
Dawson, Henry B.
Date of Publication
[1858]
Call Number
973 D272
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Responsibility
By Henry B. Dawson. Illustrated from original paintings by Alonzo Chappel.
Author
Dawson, Henry B.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Johnson, Fry, and Company,
Date of Publication
[1858]
Physical Description
5 v. fronts., plates, ports. 28 cm.
Notes
Title pages, preface, and content for the 2v. issue bound at the end of division 5.
LCHS has vols. 1 and 2 only.
Summary
Volume I - Covers the Revolutionary War from Lexington to Yorktown surrender
Volume II - Begins with the defeat of General Harman by native Americans in the Ohio Territory in 1790 and concludes with General Scott's campaign in 1847 in the Mexican War.
Subjects
Battles - United States.
United States - History, Military.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973 D272
Websites
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002370650v?urlappend=%3Bseq=8
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002370651t?urlappend=%3Bseq=10
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Britton

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Author
Breton, John le,
Edition
The second edition. Faithfully corrected according to divers ancient manuscripts of the same booke. By Edm. Wingate, Gent.
Date of Publication
Anno 1640. Cum privilegio.
Call Number
Book 230 1640
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Author
Breton, John le,
Edition
The second edition. Faithfully corrected according to divers ancient manuscripts of the same booke. By Edm. Wingate, Gent.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by the assignes of Iohn Moore Esquire,
Date of Publication
Anno 1640. Cum privilegio.
Physical Description
[16], 64, 66-175, 175-238, 240-249, 245-287, [21] leaves ; 8vo.
Notes
A treatise on the laws of England attributed to John Breton or Britton, but largely based on "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" by Henry de Bracton.
Signatures: [par.]⁸ *⁸ A-X⁸ 2A-2Q⁸ ²R-S⁸.
With 21 final errata leaves.
Entered to the English Stock 5 March 1620.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 230 as assigned by Yeates.
STC(2),
ESTC,
Copy Ushaw VII.G.10.21, binding: calf, blind fillets, mid 17th century.
Subjects
Law - England - Early works to 1800.
Law.
England.
Early works.
One-half leather and linen (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Wingate, Edmund,
Bracton, Henry de,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Book 230 1640
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Catalogue of the Green Tree Collection

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Corporate Author
Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire.
Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
368 G244
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Responsibility
Anthony N.B. Garvan and Carol A. Wojtowicz ; with photos. by Will Brown.
Corporate Author
Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Mutual Assurance Co.,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
165 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Coloring book is separate item.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159).
Subjects
Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire.
Collectors and collecting - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Additional Author
Garvan, Anthony N. B.
Wojtowicz, Carol A.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
368 G244
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