Acts passed at the first [-third] session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven : and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first : published by authority
Papers no. 4-5 relate to the loan raised by Benjamin Franklin in Paris.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
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
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]
An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.
Last page blank.
"The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.
"The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.
"Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.
A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd
On the massacre of the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxton Boys" and the Indian policy of the Pennsylvania authorities.
"Signed on behalf of ourselves, and by appointment of a great number of the frontier inhabitants. Matthew Smith. James Gibson. February 13th, 1764"--Page 18.
Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Evans.
Signatures: A-B4 C2 (C2 blank).
Reproduction from Library of Congress by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions, date not specified.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Summary
These documents were created by representatives of the Paxton Boys as a written defence of their massacre of the Conestoga Indians. "A Declaration" was written before the Paxton Boys arrived in Germantown, and Matthew Smith and James Gibson completed the "Remonstrance" on February 13. Both documents were later published together as "A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania". This book is a facsimile of an early published copy of the texts.
translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. ; With marginal references.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no. 41, South Second Street,
Date of Publication
1799.
Physical Description
[752] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill., 2 maps ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Includes the Apocrypha. The New Testament (p. [589-735]) has separate title page.
Made up of the sheets of the 1796 edition printed by Jacob R. Berriman for Berriman & Co. (Evans 30065), the title page and title page to the New Testament having been reprinted. The plates are the same as those found in the 1796 issue, save the frontispiece ("A scheme of the lives of the Patriarchs, from Adam to Moses inclusive. By Jas. Purves. 1786.").
Signatures: [A]² B-7I² [7K]² 7L-9D².
Printed in two columns. Plates engraved by Alexander Anderson, Cornelius Tiebout, William Rollinson, and Amos Doolittle.
Note on back of photocopy of genealogical record: Lancaster Journal, Wed. Oct 30, 1799, James Armstrong ad on "A Stray" on p. 2.
Genealogical material available in family file.
Viewing bible contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
"An index to the Holy Bible ..."--P. [737-748]. Tables, p. [748-750]. "List of subscribers' names."--p. [751-752].
Loose items removed to MG-399, Armstrong family bible including: a birthday post card, an evelope postmarked Saint Louis, Mo., and paid stamp addressed to Miss Lizzie Armstrong, Lancaster, Penna; a blue cutout valentine with blue ribbon and verse on reverse; a program of the Price Literary Society, C. S. N. S. Lock Have, Pa, November 30, 1883; a calling card of Jno. F. Shenk, Class of '84, Central State Normal School; a manuscript describing flowers by Mattie C. Hess, November 5, 1875, and a manuscript describing water by Mattie C. Hess, February 16, 1876.
Genealogical material on both sides of front flyleaf, 1796 - 1911
Evans
Hills, M.T. Engl. Bible in Amer.,
Full leather binding with marbled end papers and maroon leather title on spine; covers detached from spine.
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments : translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ; with Canne's marginal notes and references ; to which are added, an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations ; tables of Scripture weights, measures, and coins, &c
Instructions to the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary from the United States of America, to the French Republic, their letters of credence and full powers, and the dispatches received from them relative to their mission
The envoys were Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry.
Signed: Timothy Pickering, secretary of state. Department of State, Philadelphia, July 15, 1797.
Printer's monogram device on title page.
Includes the president's message of April 3, 1798, transmitting the documents to Congress.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page.
Book number 460 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Features of Mr. Jay's treaty. to which is annexed a view of the commerce of the United States, as it stands at present, and as it is fixed by Mr. Jay's treaty. Philadelphia: printed by Land & Ustick, for Mathew Carey, 1795. -- Report of the Commmittee of the House of Representatives of the United States appointed to prepare and report articles of impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States.... Printed by John Fenno, Place and date not specified -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic. 18 January,1799, published by order of the House of Representatives -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State....Philadelphia: Printed by John Ward Fenno. 1700.--.Report of the Committee, to whom was referred, so much of the President's speech, as relates to a revision and amended of the judiciary system.1 May 1800, published by order of the House of Representatives.-- A narrative of the suppression by Col. Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams, late President of the United States, written by John Wood....New York: printed by Denniston and Cheetham, 1802.
Journal of the House of representatives of the United States, at the first session of the Second Congress. ; Anno M,DCC,XCI, and of the independence of the United States the sixteenth
Journal of the proceedings of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : when sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment. : Commencing on Wednesday, the eighth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four
