9, [33] leaves, some folded : ill, drawings, photographs, maps ; 28 cm.
Notes
A study of the house from its beginning as a log cabin to the present.
Contents
Report of the condition of the 1761 house -- Evolution of the 1761 house in sketches -- Dimensioned drawings of the 1761 house -- Not to scale plans with pictures of the 1761 house -- M. Duffield Harsh 2010 research report -- Floor elevation study of the 1761 house -- Miscellaneous email correspondence.
"Limited to one hundred fifty copies"--V. 1, t.p. verso.
"Limited to one hundred copies"--V. 2,t.p. verso. LCHS has copy no. 57.
"Limited to two hundred copies"--V. 3, t.p. verso.
Limited ed. of 100 copies (v. 4).
"Limited to two hundred seventy-five copies"--V. 5, t.p. verso. LCHS has copy no. 175.
Errata slip inserted in v. 3.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Contents
v. 1. The genealogy of Otho Stevens, 1702-1771, together with Kent, Hills, Hastings, Smith, Proctor, Sproule, and associated lines -- v. 2. The genealogy of John Christian Croll, 1707-1758, together with Garber, Ivins, Shreve, Knowles, Freeman, Prence, Brewster, Mayo, Higgins, Linnell, and associated lines -- v. 3. The genealogy of Christian Gottlob Knauss, 1830-1885, together with Bahret, Binetsch, Nickse, Reumann, Weigand, Speer, Feierabend, Hess, and associated lines -- v. 4. The genealogy of Robert Pond, ?-1637, together with Shepard, Lindsay, Churchill, Foote, Dunbar, Conant, Benjamin, and associated lines -- v. 5. Errata and addenda to volumes I through IV.
"Over the years Lloyd and Mabel [Heller] raised two sons of their own; in addition they adopted two children from the Lancaster Children's Bureau. They also raised four foster children and kept many other children from the Lancaster Children's Bureau for shorter periods of time ranging from six to eight months. They also kept approximately twenty children from the neighborhood for up to several months and at times as long as a year...In 1958, Mabel 'Mama' Heller was recognized by the Lancaster Children's Bureau of Lancaster County for her involvement with the Children's Bureau in the raising of forty children at the Heller farm in Narvon Pennsylvania." [from the introduction]
"A true story of the author and his family members, friends and neighbors circa 1942 to 1964. It also gives the reader a real and factual understanding of the life in that time period surrounding the area of Lancaster County called 'The Welsh Mountains'." [from the book jacket]
Chapters: The Early Years / Hotels / Transportation / Mills / Early Families / Churches / Education / Historical Businesses, Buildings / Current Businesses / Community Organizations / Past and Present Residents / Community Life / Pictorial.
Contents: - Ancestors of Lewis Allen. - Life of Lewis Allen... - Lewis Denison Allen and his Descendants... - Mary Smith Allen and her Descendants. - Frances Elizabeth Allen and her Descendants. - Harriet Amelia Allen and her Descendants. - Sarah Ann Allen and her Descendants. - Frederick Lee Allen and his Descendants. - Thomas Humphrey Cushing Allen and his Descendante - Jane Cellina Allen and her Descendants. - Eleanor Caroline Allen and her Descendants.
