Series 1 contains invoices, arrest warrants, and tax collector books for the city of Lancaster. Invoices that were approved by the city council in 1878, 1883 and 1884 for payroll and supplies include road and bridge maintenance, water works, fire departments, clerk and inspection work, and costs incurred by the city during an outbreak of small pox. Arrest warrants for 1918-1919 show names of defendant(s) and police officer, the charge, date and case number. There are also tax collector records for 1860-1889, incomplete.
Series 2 contains documents regarding the market houses, waterworks, lamps, roads, railroad and city ordinances. Petitions support a candidate for night watchman, seek to repeal an ordinance for hanging signs and regulations for public scales, and request a reward for the apprehension of a murderer. There is an 1815 naturalization certificate for James Williams and a resolution regarding a visit of Gen. Andrew Jackson.
Series 3 contains miscellaneous items related to the Borough of Lancaster (1742 to 1818) found in the Document Collection. Items include an act regulating the buildings and keeping in repair the streets, lanes, and alley of Lancaster, passed 14 January 1774; oaths of office sworn by various men from 1764 to 1769; and an extract of Lancaster Borough laws enacted 22 January 1774 reporting the regulations and fines of this borough.
George and Rhonda Andreadis Collection of Lancaster City Records (MG0545)
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Christiana Resistance, commonly referred to as the "Christiana Riot," occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker (1821-1891), a free Black man living in Christiana, Pennsylvania. The slaveholders crossed the state border, and attempted claim and return the Freedom Seekers as their property, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The violent confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, a slaveholder, and the escape of William Parker to freedom in Canada. Edward's son, Dickinson Gorsuch, was
wounded and taken to the farm of Levi Pownall, where the Pownall family nursed him back to health. Historically, this event challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and is considered a
precursor to the Civil War.
The collection contains 2 distinct series: documents and photographs, from 1803-1971. Documents include: land drafts and deeds, correspondence to and from the Pownall family regarding the incident, notes regarding kidnappings in the area from 1850-1851, photocopied pages of Dickinson Gorsuch's diary, and published accounts of the event, memorializations, announcements and a radio drama related to or inspired by the Christiana Resistance event of 1851.
Contained in the photograph series are photographs of: the event place and places related to the Christiana Resistance, the Pownall farm, event monuments, daguerreotypes of key figures and survivors of the resistance.
Moores Memorial Library (Christiana, Pa.) owns some of the most significant manuscript material relating to the Christiana Resistance. The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public.
Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.
Admin/Biographical History
The Christiana Resistance, commonly referred to as the "Christiana Riot" occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker a free Black man living in Christiana, Pennsylvania. The slaveholders crossed the state border, and attempted claim and return the freedom seekers as their property, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The violent confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, a slaveholder, and the escape of William Parker to freedom in Canada. Edward's son, Dickinson Gorsuch, was wounded and taken to the farm of Levi Pownall, where the Pownall family nursed him back to health. Historically, this event challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and is considered a precursor to the Civil War.
System of Arrangement
Series 1 Manuscript and Printed Material, 1803-1955
The digital images of the manuscript and printed material are 300 dpi JPGs; the photographs are 600 dpi JPGs.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE
Location of Originals
Moores Memorial Library
9 West Slokom Avenue
Christiana, PA 17509
chrlib@christianalibrary.org
610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687
Access Conditions / Restrictions
The attached images have been provided for research. The original items are restricted for preservation purposes.
Copyright
The attached images may be used for research purposes only.
Please contact Moores Memorial Library for high resolution images and permission to publish:
Moores Memorial Library
9 West Slokom Avenue
Christiana, PA 17509
chrlib@christianalibrary.org
610-593-6683 or 610-593-6687
Credit
Christiana Resistance Collection, Series #, Folder #, Moores Memorial Library
Classification
CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Moores Memorial Library (Christiana, Pa.) owns some of the most significant manuscript material relating to the Christiana Resistance. The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public.
The collection contains correspondence to and from the Pownall family regarding the incident, notes regarding kidnappings in the area from 1850-1851, photocopied pages of Dickinson Gorsuch's diary, and published accounts. An 1896 photograph shows Peter Woods and Samuel Hopkins, survivors of the riot. There are also photographs of the Christiana Riot House, the Pownall farm, and key figures in the riot and at the Treason Trials of 1851.
The staff of Moores Memorial Library, part of the Library System of Lancaster County, and the Lancaster County Historical Society worked together to arrange and preserve the collection and create a finding aid to make the materials accessible to the public. Funds for this project were provided by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2001.
Collection consists largely of information on the descendants of Edward Hand and on the Hand Family Reunion. Contains correspondence, genealogical materials, family charts, photographs, and commemorative booklet 1912, on Lancaster County in the Revolutionary War. Also, three documents concerning the settling of the Hand estate.
Collection of Ellmaker family papers, including original papers of the first immigrant, John Leonard Ellmaker of Germany. Papers include correspondence, genealogy charts, deeds and legal papers. newspaper clippings, photographs, articles on Jacob Eichholtz, and a diploma and teachers' certificate. There is also a blank book with paper made at Ephrata Cloister in 1796.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions. Please request at Reference Desk or contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
Copyright
Collection may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
MG0071
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 23 October 2018.
A geographical description of Pennsylvania: also of the counties respectively, in the order in which they were established by the legislature. With an alphabetical list of the townships in each county; and their population in 1800
Introduction to the English reader, or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry : calculated to improve the younger classes of learners, in reading, and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue : with rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety
The justices and constables assistant : being a general collection of forms of practice, interspersed with various observations and directions, together with a number of adjudged cases, relative to the offices of justice of the peace and constable : with an appendix, containing a variety of useful forms of conveyancing
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirty-second
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
verdeutschet von Martin Luther, mit kurzen Summarien oder Inhalt jedes Psalmen und mit vielen Parallelen oder gleichen Schrift-stellen.
Edition
6. Aufl.
Place of Publication
Germantaun
Publisher
Gedruckt bey Michael Billmeyer,
Date of Publication
1804.
Physical Description
252 pages ; 14 cm
Notes
The Book of Psalms in German.
Printed in single column, verse form, title and Psalm number at top of page with page number, above single rule. Rule between each Psalm. Headings to the Psalms. References between verses.
United Bible Societies language: German.
From the collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P00.31.3.
A hand-drawn bookplate on front flyleaf reading:"Dieser/ Psalter gebort/ Esther Neff/ im Jahr des herrn 1809, Bleibe fromm und haltge/ dich recht; dann solchen/ wirds, zulezt wohl yehen."
Der kleine Catechismus des sel. D. Martin Luthers. Nebst den gewöhnlichen Morgen-, Tisch- und Abend-Gebeten. Welchen die Ordnung des Heils, in einem Liede, in kurzen Sätzen, in Frag und Antworten; und in einer Tablle; wie auch eine Zergliederung des Catechismus, das Würtemburgische kurze Kinder-Examen, die Confirmation und Beichte beygefügt; und etliche Lieder, Freylinghausens Ordnung des Heils, das Güldene A, B, C, der Kinder, und die sieben Buss=Psalmen angehänget sind. Zum Gebrauch der Jungen und Alten
Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--p. 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--p. 478.
Copy 1 "Jacob Weaver 1827" and Copy 2 inscribed "Amos Slaymaker" on cover.
The memorial and petition of the president and directors of the Chesapeak and Delaware Canal Company, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. January 1, 1806
Rules and articles, for the better government of the troops raised : or to be raised, and kept in pay by, and at the expence of the United States of America
Biblia, das ist: Die ganze göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der deutschen uebersetzung d. Martin Luthers; mit jedes capitels kurzen summarien, auch beygefügten vielen und richtigen parallelen: nebst einem Anhang des dritten und vierten buchs Esrä, und des dritten buchs der Maccabäer
Old Testament, with Apocrypha: 3 p. l., 1008p.; "familien-verzeichniss": [4]p; New Testament: 277 p.; "Register der Episteln und Evangelien", "Wahrhafte und gewisse Jahrzahl", etc: [47] page.
New Testament has title: Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heylandes Jesu Christi, nach der deutschen uebersetsung dr. Martin Luthers, mit kurzen inhalt eines jeden capitels und vollständiger anweisung gleicher schrift-stellen. Wie auch aller sonn-und fest-tägigen evangelien und episteln. Erste auflage. Reading ... 1805.
On front of front cover of Bachman Bible: signatures of Ester Hohler, Susan Weaver, and Magdalena entered into cloister den ersten dieses Monath [?] meine Schwester Magdalena Weaverin aus dieser zeit in die Ewegkeit űber gegangen, nehmlidh den 1ter Julius 1793.
On back of first flyleaf of Bachman Bible: signatures of Susanah Bowman, [?] Bowman in year of our Lord 1855.
Genealogical information on leaf following the Apocyrpha; copy in Bauman family file.
Genealogical information on leaf following the Apocyrpha of Eshelman Bible.
Viewing bible contingent on staff availability, an appointment may be required.
Bauman Bible: Full leather tooled cover badly repaired in library tape; first title page repaired with library tape; title imprinted on spine.
Eshelman Bible: Full leather binding badly repaired with Scotch tape; front cover detached and clasps missing.
