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Andrew McNair and the Liberty Bell, 1776

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Author: Alexander, Mary D.

Date of Publication: 1929.

Call Number: 974.80092 A377

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Responsibility: [by] Mary D. Alexander.

Author: Alexander, Mary D.

Place of Publication: [Chicago

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press]

Date of Publication: 1929.

Physical Description: 2 p. Ã¸., 10 p. front., 2 facsim. on 1 pl. 21 cm.

Notes: "First appeared as "The ringers of the Liberty bell". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XVIII (October, 1925), 658-67."; Andrew McNair, as the doorkeeper of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for 18 years, was the person who would ring the Liberty Bell during the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Subjects: McNair, Andrew, - fl. 1776.; Liberty Bell.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80092 A377

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The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time

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Author: Landis, David M.

Date of Publication: 1921.

rapidly going on. Those letters are mounted in folios entitied "Lancaster County Miscellany" and "Taylor Pa- pers", etc., rstn the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; but that does not stop the fading out of the ink. It is with the greatest diffi- culty even now that some of them may be

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Responsibility: by David M. Landis.

Author: Landis, David M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921.

Physical Description: 5-16 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 1

Subjects: Land settlement - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Taylor papers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 1 (1921), p. 5-16Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25

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A constitutional league of peace in the stone age of America; the League of the Iroquois and its constitution

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Author: Hewitt, J. N. B.

Date of Publication: 1920.

Call Number: 970.1 S664c

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Responsibility: by J. N. B. Hewitt.

Author: Hewitt, J. N. B.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1920.

Physical Description: 527-545 p. 24 cm.

Notes: From: Smithsonian Institution. Annual report. 1918.; "The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]

Summary: Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.

Subjects: Iroquois Indians.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 970.1 S664c

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Courts and lawyers of Pennsylvania; a history, 1623-1923

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Author: Eastman, Frank M.

Date of Publication: 1922.

Call Number: 379.748 E13

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Responsibility: by Frank M. Eastman.

Author: Eastman, Frank M.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: The American historical society, inc.,

Date of Publication: 1922.

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., illus. (facsim.) ports. 28 cm.

Notes: Paged continuously.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Courts - Pennsylvania.; Lawyers - Pennsylvania.; Judges - Pennsylvania.; Law - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 379.748 E13

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Early American inns and taverns

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Author: Lathrop, Elise.

Date of Publication: 1926.

Call Number: 647.94 L353

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Responsibility: by Elise Lathrop ...

Author: Lathrop, Elise.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: R. M. McBride & company,

Date of Publication: 1926.

Physical Description: xxi, [3] 25-365 p. front, illus. (incl. facsim.) plates. 24 1/2 cm.

Notes: Inns of Lancaster, Pa. mentioned on p. 157-161.; Bibliography: p. 311-315.

Contents: Chapters: Inns from New York City to Springfield, Massachusetts /// From Springfield To Boston, Deerfield and Hadley /// Taverns In and Near Boston /// Another Route From New York To New Haven And On To Rhode Island /// Old Inns of New Hampshire and Vermont /// A Few Old Maine Inns /// Long Island, Staten Island , and New Jersey Inns /// Pennsylvania Inns /// Old Inns of Philadelphia and Vicinity /// Other Pennsylvania Inns /// Delaware and Maryland Inns /// Old Southern Ordinaries /// Inns In Ohio and Erie County /// Inns of New York State /// Some Middlewest Inns /// Kentucky and Missouri Inns with One In Kansas

Subjects: Hotels, taverns, etc. - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 647.94 L353

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The genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families, seekers of religious liberty who fled from Silesia to Saxony and thence to Pennsylvania in the years 1731-1737

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Author: Brecht, Samuel Kriebel,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Call Number: 929 S414b

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Responsibility: edited by Samuil Kriebel Brecht...

Author: Brecht, Samuel Kriebel,

Place of Publication: New York, Chicago

Publisher: Printed for the Board of publication of the Schwenkfelder church, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania [by] Rand McNally & company,

Date of Publication: 1923.

Physical Description: xx, 1752 p. front., illus. (coat of arms) plates, ports., maps, facsims. 29 cm.

Notes: A revision of the Genealogical record of the descendants of the Schwenkfelders, by R. Kriebel.; The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families: Seekers of Religious Liberty Who Fled From Silesia to Saxony and Thence to Pennsylvania in the Years 1731 to 1737 by Samuel Kriebel Brecht chronicles the genealogy of the followers of Caspar Schwenkfelder, German religious reformer. The book also includes photographs of people, places, and documents; historical sketches; church organization, maps, and other information; Bibliography: p. xix-xx.