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]
American folk painting : selections from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Wiltshire III : an exhibition on display at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, November 29, 1977- January 8, 1978
"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1794, 1797, 1799-1803, 1805-1811, 1813-1822, 1824, 1834."
"This microfilm is an addendum to the Lancaster County Tax Records project of 1971 and 1977. The records on this film were donated to the Lancaster County Historical Society in January 1981. They had been kept in the basement of Conestoga View Hospital which was used by the Lancaster County government as a storage facility for records. The tax records were water damaged and subsequently discarded at an unknown point in time. A private citizen discoverd and salvaged the items from a trash heap, and donated them to the Historical Society. The items show extensive damaged [sic] by water, mold, and vermin. Most pages are frayed and sections unreadable."
Bart Twp. 1833-37, 1841, 1843-45.
Brecknock Twp. 1833
Caernarvon Twp. 1844
Cocalico Twp. 1823, 1829
Conestoga Twp. 1827, 1831
Manheim Twp. 1822-23 (Includes List of Poor Children)
"The date [sic] tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750-1751, 1754, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1770, 1772-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1793, 1799-1803, 1805-1823, 1825-1832, 1834, 1836, 1838-1839, 1841-1846. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township."
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1789, 1791-1793, 1796-1803, 1805-[1808]"
Cocalico taxes for 1809-1838 continue on the next microfilm reel, #5.
Microfilm. Cocalico, 838 frames; East Cocalico, 107 frames; West Cocalico, 133 frames. Labeled as "Pos. 5".
Series
Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855.
Notes
"The dated tax records here reproduced for this township, prior to its division in 1838 into East Cocalico, West Cocalico, and Ephrata townships, cover the following years: 1808-1814, 1816-1822, 1824-1827, 1830, 1832-1836, 1838. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township.
The records for East and West Cocalico follow the records for Cocalico.
The dated tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1756-1759, 1763, 1769-1773, 1775, 1777-1783, 1785-1788, 1790-1793, 1797-1798, 1800-1803, 1805-1814, 1817-1822, 1824-1827, 1829-1833, 1835, 1837, 1839-1846. These records are followed on the microfilm by a group of undated tax records for this township."