Memoirs of John Bannister Gibson, late chief justice of Pennsylvania : with Hon. Jeremiah S. Black's Eulogy, notes from Hon. William A. Porter's essay upon his life and character, etc., etc
Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme
A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family. Who were surprised by the Indians and taken from their farm, on Mahoning creek, in Penn township. Northampton county, not far from where Fort Allen was built, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1780
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session
A memorial history of Peter Bitsche, and a complete family register of his lineal descendants and those related to him by intermarriage, from 1767 to 1892. Chronologically arranged. With an appendix of those not received in time for their proper place
Tributes of loving memory to Elnathan Elisha Higbee, for nearly nine years state superintendent of public instruction of Pennsylvania, with biographical sketch and selections from his writings in prose and verse
Lafayette at Brandywine, containing the proceedings at the dedication of the memorial shaft erected to mark the place where Layfayette was wounded in the battle of Brandywine, with supplementary paper on Lafayette and the historians, by Charlton T. Lewis. Also evidence as to the place where Lafayette was wounded: accounts of his visits in 1780 and 1825: names of contributors: members of the Chester county historical society: etc
A historical sketch of Michael Keinadt and Margaret Diller, his wife. The history and genealogy of their numerous posterity in the American states, up to the year 1893
Contents : INTRODUCTION - THE INDIGENES --- CONRAD WEISER'S REMOTE ANCESTRY AND NATIVE PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER'S PARENTS-HIS FATHER AND MOTHER --- THE EXODUS OF CONRAD WEISER'S FATHER --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT LIVINGSTONE MANOR --- CONRAD'S FATHER CHIEF OF THE COLONY AT SCHOHARIE --- CONRAD WEISER"S FATHER THE DEFENDER OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF HIS COUNTRYMEN AT SCHOHARIE--- CONRAD'S FATHER LEADS A COLONY TO TULPEHOCKEN , PENNSYLVANIA , HIS RETURN AND WANDERING, HIS VISIT TO TULPEHOCKEN , HIS DEATH --- JOHN CONRAD WEISER JUNIOR, HIS NAME, BIRTHPLACE, BAPTISM -- CONRAD'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA - HIS STAY WITH THE MAQUA INDIANS --- CONRAD WEISER AND HIS STEPMOTHER --- CONRAD WEISER'S BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HIS OCCUPATION, HIS MARRIAGE, HIS DEPARTURE FOR PENNSYLVANIA --- CONRAD WEISER'S ADVENT IN PENNSYLVANIA , THE BEGINNING OF HIS OFFICIAL HISTORY --- CONRAD WEISER PROVINCIAL INTERPRETER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 1732 to1743 --- TEN MORE YEARS OF INDIAN INTERCOURSE , MISSIONS AND DUTIES1744 to 1754 --- THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, CONRAD WEISER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU, COLONEL, HIS DEATH ANNOUNCED 1754 to 1760 --- CONRAD WEISER'S FAILING HEALTH, HIS DEATH, HIS BURIAL PLACE --- CONRAD WEISER AS A RELIGIOUS FIGURE --- CONRAD WEISER's WILL , HIS POSSESSIONS , HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS,HIS POSTERITYALSO, WEISER's LETTERS AND JOURNALS
Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism.
3 p.β., [iii]-xi, 9-437 p. front. (port.) facsim., 26 cm.
Series
Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, v. XIII
Life and writings of John Dickinson, vol.I
Notes
The second volume of the "Life and writings" comprises The writings of John Dickinson, edited by P. L. Ford, and published in 1895 as v. 14 of the Memoirs of the Society.
By Monsieur de Wicquefort. To which is added, an historical discourse, concerning the election of the emperor and the electors. By the same author. Translated into English by Mr. Digby.
Transferred from Objects Collection 2023. Former accession number: 1977.055.4
Publisher's binding: textured fabric with wave pattern, printed with dogwood flowers in white, pink, and green. Spine is turquoise fabric with gold tooling. Considerable foxing at edges of boards, but colors still vibrant.
