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The American genealogist; a monthly magazine of genealogy and local history

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Date of Publication
1899-1900.
Call Number
905.29 AGM
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Responsibility
Edited ... by Thomas Allen Glenn.
Place of Publication
Ardmore, Pa
Publisher
T. A. Glenn,
Date of Publication
1899-1900.
Physical Description
cover-title, 351 p. ; 25 cm.
Dates of Publication
Vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1899)-v. 1, no. [12] (Feb. 1900).
Notes
Title from caption.
Subjects
Genealogy - Periodicals.
United States - Genealogy - Periodicals.
Additional Author
Glenn, Thomas Allen,
Additional Title
American genealogist (Ardmore, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.29 AGM
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Andrew Ellicott

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Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1901
not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in
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by F. R. Diffenderffer.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1901
Physical Description
[57]-67 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 3/4
Summary
This journal article addresses sureveyor Andrew Ellicott's role in the laying out of the District of Columbia as well as many other later other projects he led.
Subjects
Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Capitals (Cities)
Washington (D.C.)
United States - Capital and capitol.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 5, number 3/4 (1901), p. 57-67Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5
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Andrew Ellicott, his life and letters

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Author
Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.
Date of Publication
1908
Call Number
925 E46m
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Responsibility
by Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews.
Author
Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
The Grafton press
Date of Publication
1908
Physical Description
x, 256 p. front., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) plans, facsims. 23cm.
Notes
"One thousand copies of this book have been printed from type and the type distributed."
Summary
A U.S. surveyor who resided in Lancaster County. He helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.
Contents: 1. Parentage and early life 1754 - 1784. 2. Baltimore and the western boundary of Pennsylvania 1785. 3. Three boundaries and the first measurement of Niagara 1786-1790. 4. The city of Washington in the Territory of Columbia. 5. The road to Presqu' Isle Fort. 6. The Florida boundary 1796 - 1800. 7. The Florida boundary (continued). 8. The Florida boundary (continued). 9. The land office of Pennsylvania 1800 - 1812. 10. West Point and the last surveys 1812-1820. The book contains footnotes and an index.
Subjects
Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.
Atlantic States - Surveys.
Southern boundary of the United States.
Washington (D.C.) - Surveys.
Pennsylvania - Boundaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
925 E46m
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000276579;view=1up;seq=13
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Birth and part history of the American flag

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Author
Mahon, Irwin.
Date of Publication
1907.
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 1
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Author
Mahon, Irwin.
Place of Publication
Carlisle, Pa
Date of Publication
1907.
Physical Description
26 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Bound with : Old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by J. D. Hemminger ; The white man's way / by Charles F. Hines ; [First Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pa.] : a historical sketch / John B. Landis ; The old stone meeting-house / by John B. Landis ; Exercises in commemoration of the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the Silver Spring Presbyterian Church, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / History of the public schools of Carlisle : read before the Hamilton Library Historical Association, February 19, 1909 / by Annie B. Hantch; Annual report of the president of the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa. ; Courts and bar of Cumberland County in the eighteenth century : historical address / by Edward W. Biddle ; Local history : old roads of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by J. D. Hemminger ; Washingtonburg / by Christian P. Humrich ; John Brown's raid / by W. J. Shearer ; Catalogue and circular of White Hall Academy for 1852-3.
Subjects
Flags - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 1
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Braddock's Road and three relative papers

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Author
Hulbert, Archer Butler,
Date of Publication
1903.
Call Number
973.26 B986
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by Archer Butler Hulbert ; with maps and illustrations.
ISBN
0404034241
Author
Hulbert, Archer Butler,
Place of Publication
Cleveland, Ohio
Publisher
The A.H. Clark Company,
Date of Publication
1903.
Physical Description
213 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Series
Historic highways of America ;
Notes
Series title also at head of t.-p.
Large paper edition.
Subjects
Braddock's Campaign, 1755.
Roads - United States.
United States Highway 40.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.26 B986
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Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion; a paper read before the Cliosophic Society, Lancaster, Pa., January 24, 1908

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1908.
Call Number
923.173 B918a
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Responsibility
By W.U. Hensel ...
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
1908.
Physical Description
41 p. 22 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918a
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A calendar of Washington manuscripts in the Library of Congress

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Date of Publication
1901.
Call Number
923.173 W318un
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Responsibility
compiled under the direction of Herbert Friedenwald.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
G.P.O.,
Date of Publication
1901.
Physical Description
315 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Introduction -- Calendar of manuscripts from Washington -- Calendar of manuscripts to Washington -- Index of names.
Subjects
Washington, George, - 1732-1799 - Manuscripts - Bibliography.
Manuscripts - United States
United States - History - Sources.
Additional Author
Friedenwald, Herbert,
Additional Corporate Author
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 W318un
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Captain Gustavus Conyngham; a sketch of the services he rendered to the cause of American independence

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Author
Jones, Charles Henry,
Date of Publication
1903.
Call Number
923.5 J76
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by Charles Henry Jones.
Author
Jones, Charles Henry,
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the revolution,
Date of Publication
1903.
Physical Description
32 pages frontispiece, plates (some color) portraits 26 cm
Subjects
Conyngham, Gustavus, - 1744?-1819.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Naval operations.
United States.
History.
Additional Corporate Author
Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 J76
Websites
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00118009824
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A century of population growth : from the first census of the United States to the twelfth, 1790-1900

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Corporate Author
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Date of Publication
1909.
Call Number
929.4 N799
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Corporate Author
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
Govt. Print. Off.,
Date of Publication
1909.
Physical Description
x, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Notes
LCHS has "Nomenclature, dealing with names represented by at least 100 white persons, by states and territories, at the first census: 1790 (pp. 227-270) only.
Subjects
Names, Personal
United States - Population - Statistics.
United States - Census.
Additional Author
Nomenclature dealing with names represented by at least 100 white persons.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.4 N799
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Ceremonies at the dedication of the equestrian statue of Major-General Anthony Wayne, Commander-in-chief of the U. S. Army : Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the revolutionary camp ground at Valley Forge, June 20, 1908

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Date of Publication
1909.
Call Number
923.5 W359p
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Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Harrisburg publishing co.,
Date of Publication
1909.
Physical Description
81 p. : plates, map (1 fold.) ; 23 cm.
Summary
Includes text of oration by former Governor Samuel Pennypacker.
Subjects
Wayne, Anthony, - 1745-1796.
Valley Forge (Pa.) - History.
United States - History - Revolution - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 W359p
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070226561&view=1up&seq=9
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