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The paving of East King Street by lottery, in 1802

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1900

soon after made their appearance in France, where they became universally popu- lar. They were proposed in England as early in 1567. The first one in that country was drawn, night and day, from the 11th of January, 1559, to May 6th of the same year. It was for the improvement of the harbors of the

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [3]-22 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 1

Summary: The article discusses the use of lotteries, in general, in Colonial America and, in particular, to pave the roads within the city. Corporations had been used to finance the roads into Lancaster, such as the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Co. which was responsible for the road coming from the east and the Susquehanna Turnpike Company which was responsible for the road from Lancaster to Columbia.

Subjects: King Street (Lancaster, Pa.); Lotteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 1 (1900), p. 3-22Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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The story of a picture

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

Company... 4. 13. 11 ditto Drumers abd Pfeiffers. 4. 2. 6 8. 16. 5 Received of John Hubley the above eight pounds, sixteen shillings and five pence, October 24, 1775. ADAM REIGART. �NO. 3. THE OLD JAIL. The third building indicated in our picture is the old jail. This, however, was not the first one built

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [182]-230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 7

Subjects: Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1775-1865.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 7 (1905), p. 182-230Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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The red rose question

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1902

period playing the same part which we have seen it did in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Here is an extract from the Bowman deed, referring back to the original Penn deed: THIS INDENTURE, Made The Six- teenth Day of July, In the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty Four

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1902

Physical Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 1/2

Subjects: Roses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Debt - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6

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Electoral vote of Pennsylvania in 1804

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1901

duly elected and returned to be Electors of a President �and Vice President of the United States, for the term of four years next ensuing the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, agreeabiy to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Pennsylvania

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1901

Physical Description: [149]-167 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 7

Subjects: Elections - Pennsylvania.; Presidents; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 5, number 7 (1901), p. 149-167Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5

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Donegal in the Revolution--patriotism and piety

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Author: Brosius, Marriott,

Date of Publication: 1900

the nursery of Pres- byterianism for the colonies. Andrew, son of Jas. Galbraith, was one of the first elders of the church, as well as the first coroner of the county. Later he be- came a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and was a member of the Gen- eral Assembly for seven consecutive years

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Responsibility: by Hon. Marriott Brosius.

Author: Brosius, Marriott,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [44]-62 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 2

Notes: Contains poem "Peace to the Brave" by Lloyd Mifflin.

Subjects: Mifflin, Lloyd, - 1846-1921.; Lowry family.; Galbraith family.; Daughters of the American Revolution. - Witness Tree Chapter (Lancaster, Pa.); Scots-Irish - Pennsylvania.; Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Donegal (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Additional Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,; Mifflin, Lloyd,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 2 (1900), p. 44-62Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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Who was who in Lancaster one hundred years old

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Author: Landis, James D.,

Date of Publication: 1907

growth of humane and enlightened public sen- timent generally. The paper which will be read to you this evening, and to which I have been asked to add a brief introduction, deals with the noble women of this community nearly a century ago, who, impressed with the needs and neces- sities of that class of

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Responsibility: by Mrs. James D. Landis.

Author: Landis, James D.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1907

Physical Description: [363]-371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 10

Subjects: Female Benevolent Society of Lancaster.; Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 11, number 10 (1907), p. 363-371Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.11

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The Quaker exiles

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

Pennsyl- vania in 1682. The first to come, Phineas, was one of the chief men in the province. Three brothers, grand- sons of Phineas Pemberton, Israel, James and John, were among the exiles. All were educated, enterprising busi- ness men and wealthy. They did much for the public charities of the city

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [77]-117 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 4

Subjects: Quakers - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 4 (1905), p. 77-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : and biographical sketch of Col. Matthias Slough

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1902

. First came Judge Yeates. How it passed from his possession into that of David Witmer, one of the parties with whom it cohcerns itself, I am unable to say, but, laid away and carefully preserved, for it has to-day all the freshness of * In 1807, Albert Gallatin, then Secretary of the Treasury, in a

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1902

Physical Description: [116]-149 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 8

Subjects: Slough, Matthias, - 1733-1812.; Toll roads - Pennsylvania.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6

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The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. Part II. The redemptioners. Prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1900.

Call Number: 974.802812 D569g

Responsibility: By Frank Ried Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The author,

Date of Publication: 1900.

Physical Description: ix, 7-330 p. illus. (incl. facsims.) 16 pl., 6 port. (incl. front.) 25 cm.

Notes: Also published as pt. VII of Pennsylvania: the German influence in its settlement and development in The Pennsylvania-German society proceedings and addresses ... vol. X. 1900.

Subjects: Germans - Pennsylvania.; Redemptioners.; Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802812 D569g

The last one

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1906

something about the last one of its kind still in active operation in Lancaster county, and which was visited by the writer one day this week. The First One. Before I speak of this mill, a glance at these mills a century ago and more will not be out of place. So far as the writer knows, the first fulling

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: 295-303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 8

Subjects: Woolen and worsted manufacture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Textile finishing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 8 (1906), p. 295-303Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10

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Odds and ends of local history

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1906

any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or Fur- nace for making Steel. Witness my hand and seal, this Third day of sep- tember, in the One Thousand seven Hundred and Fifty. "ANDREW WORK Sheriff (L.S.).'"8 Soldiers and Their Dogs. At the breaking out of the Indian hostilities in 1764 and as

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: 181-215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 6

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 6 (1906), p. 181-215Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10

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The Militia Muster, or Battalion Day

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1900

companies in each regiment could not be less than eight nor more than twelve, and the number of non-commissioned officers and privates in each company was not to be less than seventy nor more than one hundred and fifty. Every able- bodied man who resided in the Com- monwealth one month, and was be- �tween

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [33]-43 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 2

Subjects: Battalion Day.; Militia Day.; Battalion Day - Poetry.; Militia Day - Poetry.; Holidays - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Militia.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 2 (1900), p. 33-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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Lancaster County loyalists

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1908

, sufficient warrant and authority. Given under my hand seal, this first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. "Indorsed "Warrant to the Gentn of the Board of War for arresting officers under the late Government. (That is, the Pro- prietary Government.)" On August 4, 1777, another

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1908

Physical Description: [243]-278 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 7

Subjects: American loyalists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1783.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 12, number 7 (1908), p. 243-278Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.12

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The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

Company now holds the same, excepting so much thereof as will be required to work said Company's pump to pump water in the Basin, etc., with certain other reservations and privileges, to Mr. Daniel Overholzer, for the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars, to be paid on the first day of April next, when a deed

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [3]-24 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 1

Subjects: Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Resorts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 1 (1905), p. 3-24Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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The early settlement and population of Lancaster county and city

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

of all the men who lived and died in this city and couhty be- tween 1730 and 1825 there is hardly one who has left behind him an auto- biography, memoir or diary of the events that fell into the first hundred years of our recorded history. There is so much that we would like to know, so much of

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [151]-171 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 6

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Population.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Population.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 6 (1905), p. 151-171Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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The newspapers of Lancaster County

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1902

total for both city and county of about 270. Not the least surprising part of all this is that for nearly one hundred years after the first printing press was established here this was largely a German community. For a time at least there seems to have been more reading done in the German language than

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1902

Physical Description: [103]-113 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 8

Subjects: American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; German American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Newspapers.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6

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The Historical Society's first pilgrimage

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1903/1904

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.8, no. 8

Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1903/1904

Physical Description: [267]-272 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 8, no. 8

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Ephrata (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.8, no. 8

The Lancaster rifles

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1905

will please to deliver to the order of the Hon. Council of Pennsylvania, one hundred common Rifles (without Bayonets), if you have or can procure that number speedily. A light Corps from Camp is expected at Lancaster & you will keep in view the providing them with what they want for further �Business

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Responsibility: prepared by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [67]-73 ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 3

Subjects: Leman, Henry Eichholtz, - 1812-1887.; Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Rifles; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 3 (1905), p. 67-73Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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Early Lancaster playbills and playhouses

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1903

of Her Majesty, Queen Anne, when the Quakers made a majority of the Assembly; but when it came before the Queen in Council it was disapprov- ed, and Her Majesty repealed the Act on the Twentieth of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nine." The just referred-to action was taken in consequence of

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1903

Physical Description: [24]-43 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 7, no. 2/3

Subjects: Theater - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 7, number 2/3 (1903), p. 24-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.7

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The Pennsylvania Dutch

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Author: Hart, Albert Bushnell,

Date of Publication: 1908

, that the free schools of Pennsylvania were not founded until well on in the nine- teenth century, and to this day the State authorities are not rigorous in enforcing the requirements as to the length of the school term and the character of the teaching; further more, in many communities the chil- dren

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Responsibility: by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart with notes by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D.

Author: Hart, Albert Bushnell,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1908

Physical Description: [82]-100 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 2

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Emigration and immigration.

Additional Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 12, number 2 (1908), p. 82-100Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.12

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