Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This journal article contains a letter sent by German-American citizens in Pennsylvania to President John Adams. In the letter, they ask for his help in being compensated for their imprisonment that was imposed for their participation in the protest against the tax imposed upon their property. Their protest is known as Fries's Rebellion after the leader of the protest, John Fries. The article also describes Fries's trial and conviction for treason and his pardon by President Adams.
Notes
From Britanica.com: "Fries's Rebellion, (1799), uprising, in opposition to a direct federal property tax, by farmers in eastern Pennsylvania led by John Fries (c. 1750-1818). In July of 1798, the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, which greatly needed revenues for an anticipated war with France, had voted a direct federal tax on all real property, including land, buildings, and slaves. This tax, which caused widespread national resentment against the John Adams administration, infuriated the German farmers of Bucks, Northampton, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. Eventually, several hundred farmers took up arms under the leadership of John Fries. At Bethlehem, Pa., Fries and his men forced, by intimidation rather than by actual violence, the release of a group of tax resisters who had been imprisoned under the custody of the federal marshal. In response, President Adams called out a force of federal troops and militia, who marched into the rebellious counties and began making wholesale arrests of the insurgents. John Fries was captured and subsequently tried twice, convicted of treason on each occasion, and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Adams in April 1800, when the president declared a general amnesty for all those who had been involved in the 'rebellion'."
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This article features letters from James Buchanan to Henry A. Muhlenberg and letters from Simon Cameron to Muhlenberg indicating their support for him in the upcoming election for governor of Pennsylvania in 1844. Muhlenberg was nominated by the Democratic party for that position, but he died prior to the election.
Franklin's contribution to medicine, being a collection of letters written by Benjamin Franklin bearing on the science and art of medicine and exhibiting his social and professional intercourse with various physicians of Europe and America
5 p.l., [9]-89, [1] p. front. (port.) illus. 25 cm.
Notes
"Of this book three hundred copies have been printed of which this is copyright no. 2."
References: p. 89.
Contents
The author is convinced that "Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest benefactors, friends and patrons of the medical profession." This book is a collection of letters "exhibiting his social and professional intercourse with various physicians of Europe and America."
embracing letters of the most vital historical importance from signers of the Declaration of Independence (many of them written in 1776) members of the Continental Congress, generals, commodores, other officers and patriots in the revolution ... to be sold Tuesday afternoon and evening, Jan. 16th, 1917.
Report of the trial and acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice, and Jasper Yeates and Thomas Smith, Esquires, Assistant Justices, of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, on an impeachment, before the Senate of the Commonwealth, January, 1805
These are pictures and some photographs used in Riddle's published book of the same title.
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Illistrations, v2; -- Harry Stiff -- Grubey Sam -- Johnny Elliott -- Blind Johnny -- Hans Herr House -- Old Buildings in Lancaster City -- Old Waterworks, built 1836 -- CityHall, as appeared in 1835 -- Frank R. Diffenderffer -- West King Street about 1850 -- Water committee personnel, 1888 -- Centre Square -- James Hamilton -- General LaFayette -- Franklin College -- Franklin and Marshall College, 1854 -- Postlethwaite's Tavern -- W. U. Hensel --
Contents
Illistrations, v1; -- Three Clergy -- William Riddle, at age 17 -- William Riddle -- Adam Reigart -- William Penn -- John F. Steinman -- Samuel Bowman -- Benjamin Franklin -- Franklin College -- Dr. John L. Atlee -- Dr. Samuel Humes -- Christopher Hager --Old Lancaster School at Prince and Chestnut -- General LaFayette -- John Baer -- Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg -- Dr. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg -- Amos Slaymaker -- James Buchanan -- Thaddeus Stevens -- George Wolf -- Samuel F. Dale -- Joseph Ritner -- John King Findlay -- Old Lancaster Courthouse, 1787-1853 -- George Musser -- Lewis C. Jungerich -- Robert Moderwell -- John W. Forney -- Old School Buildings, South Duke Street -- John Mathiot -- John Zimmerman -- Peter McConomy -- George M. Steinman -- Rev. John S. Crumbaugh -- Lancaster School Diploma -- John Piersol McCaskey -- Common School Celebration, 1854 -- John C. Baker -- Samuel O. Nourse -- Thomas H. Burrowes -- Rev. Bernhard Keenan -- William B. Wiley -- Newton Lightner -- Alexander L. Hayes -- H.S. Gara -- J. B. Livingston -- William P. Brition -- Frederick F. Pyfer -- Christie Musser -- The Children's Home -- William A. Morton -- John W. Jackson -- Charles F. Eberman -- John I. Hartman -- George W. Zecher -- J. M. Johnston -- John Warfel -- William O. Marshall -- East Lemon Street School, 1881-- Lancaster City School Superintendent, R.K. Buehrle -- Daniel G. Baker -- Dr. John Levergood -- Thomas F. McElligott -- Marie E. Gill -- James P. Wickersham -- Dr. D. R. McCormick -- Dr. E. E. Higbee -- South Duke Street School Building, 1892 -- South Mulberry Street School, 1892 -- David McMullen -- George Forrest -- Interior Strawberry Street School -- H.A. Schroyer -- Matilda Zug -- Stevens Highschool -- Nathan C. Schaeffer -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Lancaster Highschool Orchestra -- North Queen Street in the 1840s -- Postlethwaite, First Court held 1730 -- Program for President Taylor's Reception, 1849 -- Penn Square -- The Pequea Creek -- The Conestoga and Bathing Resorts -- Robert Fulton -- Mennonite Brick Meetinghouse -- Birthplace of Robert Fulton -- Oak Hill -- Wright's home at Columbia -- Bleak House -- W. U. Hensel's Birthplace, Quarryville, PA -- Strasburg School -- Lutheren Church, Manheim, PA -- House at Fairview -- The Catharine Long Home -- Linden Hall Seminary, Lititz, PA
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Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer printing house, 1910. Cherished memories of old Lancaster--town and shireLancaster History Library - Book974.815 LACI R543 Pic.
Peace to the brave (Poem) - Give us a place to play (Poem) - I've gotta go to school (Poem) - Be a good boy; Good-bye (Poem)
Summary
The book , written in 1913 , was intended by the author to show school students that there was good litterature being written in their time in their state. Writings by the following authors are included: Bayard Taylor -- Thomas Buchanan Read -- Charles Godfrey Leland -- Stephen Collins Foster -- Frank R. Stockton -- S. Wier Mitchell -- Lloyd Mifflin -- Elizabeth Lloyd -- Thomas Allibone Janvier -- Henry van Dyke-- Owen Wister -- John L. Shroy -- Richard Harding Davis -- Elsie Singmaster
CONTENTS: A NEW ENGLAND RECTORY A WESTERN COLLEGE BEXLEY HALL ANDOVER AND LAWRENCE BEGINNINGS OF THE CAMBRIDOR THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL THE UNKNOWN TEACHER BECOMING KNOWN RECOGNITION. FAME A THEOLOGICAL PORTRAIT. THE APPROACH OF A GREAT SORROW TRIALS AND VICTORIES CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS THE LIFE OF PHILLIPS BROOKs ROME WARNINGS CHICAGO THE APPEAL FOR HELP FREEDOM IN THE CHURCH HAPPINESS AND PEACE
Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families
The book of memories, being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the completion of Old St. Peter's Lutheran Church and the one hundred and fifty-third anniversary of the organization of the congregation
"Knowledge of elevations is critical to surveyors, engineers, coastal managers, developers, and those who make resource or land-use management decisions. NOAAs National Geodetic Survey (NGS) provides a great deal of the accurate elevation data needed by these groups to do their work successfully...The most accurate elevation data are collected through a process called SPIRIT LEVELING, which is performed with an instrument that is a combination of a telescope and a spirit level vial. Called a level, the instrument is used to read values from a set of specially constructed and marked rods. Leveling involves determining differences in elevation between survey points following a leap frog approach. Building off of known elevations and carrying elevations forward from point to point with a level and rods, surveyors construct a level line." [from the text]
The Washingtoniana: containing a sketch of the life and death of the late Gen. George Washington, with a collection of elegant eulogies, orations, poems, &c., sacred to his memory
These volumes are in the "library work room". They are not on the open shelves. However, there is an index on the open shelves. Its call number is 905.748 CHS Index. Patrons should consult the index first. If there is a volume that they want to see, the library attendant should pull the volume from the shelves in the "library work room".
