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Tories at the "Dutch" Mill : a Tale of Colonial Fifth Columnists

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Author
Sprout, Oliver S.
Date of Publication
30 Dec. 1940.
Call Number
974.95 E12s
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by Oliver S. Sprout.
Author
Sprout, Oliver S.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
30 Dec. 1940.
Notes
A greatly revised version of this essay appeared in the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, v.56, no.2, p.36-44.
Subjects
American Loyalists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.95 E12s
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Some early records of the Ilges family in Pennsylvania, and A genealogy of the descendants of Abraham Ilyus, 1810-1856

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Author
Harrison, William J.,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
929 I27
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compiled by William J. Harrison and Marguerite Balph Harrison.
Author
Harrison, William J.,
Place of Publication
Orange, N.J
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
33 leaves ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Ilges family.
Ilyus family.
Additional Author
Harrison, Maguerite Balph.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 I27
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The Bible in iron : pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans; notes on colonial firebacks in the United States, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace, and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the United States and Canada

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8227
Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
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Author
Mercer, Henry Chapman,
Edition
Rev. corr. and enl. by Horace M. Mann. 2d ed.
Place of Publication
Doylestown, Pa
Publisher
Bucks County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
[6] 216 p. : plates, port. ;
Notes
Bound with: Old Home Week , Manheim, Pa. (1912) and History of Lancaster (1870)
Bibliography: p. 206-208.
Contents
Chapters : The decorated iron stoves of Europe /// The decorated iron stoves of colonial America /// Notes on colonial firebacks, date plates and miscellaneous stoves
Summary
Contains notes on colonial firebacks in the US, the ten-plate stove, Franklin's fireplace and the tile stoves of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, together with a list of colonial furnaces in the US and Canada.
Subjects
Stoves.
Stove-plates.
Christian art and symbolism.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
749 M554
Websites
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079879183
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A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937

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Author
Kauffman, Charles Fahs.
Date of Publication
1980 [1940]
Call Number
929 K21k
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.... Compiled by Charles Fahs Kauffman.
Author
Kauffman, Charles Fahs.
Place of Publication
York, Pa. (R.D. 5, Box 5406, York, PA 17402)
Publisher
Lawrence P. Kauffman, Jr.,
Date of Publication
1980 [1940]
Physical Description
xxxi, 776 p. : ill, coats of arms, facsims., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes brief outlies of allied Swiss and Palatine families who were among the pioneer settlers in Lancaster and York counties of Pennsylvania from 1717 on; viz., Becker, Baer, Correll, Erisman, Fahs, Kuntz, Kneisley, Hershey, Hiestand, Meyers, Musselman, Neff, Martin, Ruby, Snavely, Shenk, Shirk, Sprenkle, Witmer, and others.
Includes index.
Photomechanical reprint of the ed. published by the author, 1940.
Subjects
Kauffman family.
Coffman family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 K21k
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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

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Author
Jones, U. J.
Date of Publication
c1940]
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
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By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Author
Jones, U. J.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
The Telegraph Press,
Date of Publication
c1940]
Physical Description
440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers.
First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.
Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Hoenstine, Floyd G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 P968 1940
Websites
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41392/41392-h/41392-h.htm
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The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2483
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
533.6 B639
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by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
Corporate Author
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
Subjects
Balloon ascensions.
Additional Author
Frey, Carroll,
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
533.6 B639
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Early Knipe families of Pennsylvania: (including the male line of descent to the present generation)

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Author
Knipe, James Lloyd.
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
Drawer 1, sec. 2: #33
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by James Lloyd Knipe
Author
Knipe, James Lloyd.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
J.L. Knipe,
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
1 reel , 35 mm.
593 leaves ;
Notes
Typescript.
Includes index.
Subjects
Knipe family.
Finckbone family
High family
Johnson family
Kneip family
Nipe family
Stipe family
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 1, sec. 2: #33
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Henry William Stiegel and his associates; a story of early American industry

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Author
Heiges, George L.
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
926.6 S855he
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By George L. Heiges.
Author
Heiges, George L.
Place of Publication
[Manheim?], Pa
Publisher
Heiges,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
5 p. β., 227 p. : plates ; 20 cm.
Notes
Signed by the author.
Subjects
Stiegel, Henry William, - 1729-1785.
Glass manufacture - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
926.6 S855he
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Lovina, a story of the Pennsylvania country

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Author
Milhous, Katherine,
Date of Publication
1940
Call Number
813.52 M644
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story and pictures by Katherine Milhous.
Author
Milhous, Katherine,
Place of Publication
New York; London
Publisher
Scribner
Date of Publication
1940
Physical Description
[48] pages illustrations (some color) 23 x 25 cm
Subjects
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Juvenile fiction.
Mennonites.
Amish in Pennsylvania
Mennonites in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania.
Family stories - 1940.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Publishers' advertisements - 1940.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.52 M644
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Land for my sons; a frontier tale of the American revolution

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Author
Cormack, Maribelle,
Date of Publication
1940 [c1939]
Call Number
813.52 C811
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by Maribelle Cormack and William P. Alexander; illustrated by Lyle Justis.
Author
Cormack, Maribelle,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century,
Date of Publication
1940 [c1939]
Physical Description
xii, 311 p. illus. 21 cm.
Subjects
United States - Hist. - Revolution - Fiction.
Additional Author
Alexander, William Prindle,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.52 C811
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Pennsylvania Dutch folk art and architecture : a selective annotated bibliography

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Author
Riccardi, Saro John,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
016.709 R489
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compiled by Saro John Riccardi.
Author
Riccardi, Saro John,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
New York public library,
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
15 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York public library of June 1942."
Subjects
Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Bibliography.
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Bibliography.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Bibliography.
Additional Corporate Author
New York Public Library.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.709 R489
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Stock in trade : being an "inventory of the store in Litiz (Pennsylvania), taken from the 4th to 8th May, 1773," and some pertinent remarks regarding service to the American public

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Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Home Insurance Co.,
Date of Publication
[ca. 1940]
Physical Description
[20] p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Facsimile reproduction of the 1773 inventory.
Subjects
General stores - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Inventories - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Germans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB S864
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Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors

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Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Date of Publication
1940]
Call Number
929 B348
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Author
Bauman, Angus Spaeth,
Place of Publication
[Wallenstein, Ont
Publisher
A. S. Bauman,
Date of Publication
1940]
Physical Description
201 p.
Notes
Cover title: Bauman family history.
Subjects
Bowman family.
Ontario - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 B348
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The famed markets of Lancaster : with a taste of tomato, and a sip of cider

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Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Date of Publication
c1949.
Call Number
641.3 H473
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by M. Luther Heisey.
Author
Heisey, M. Luther,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Date of Publication
c1949.
Physical Description
30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Vegetables - Pennsylvania.
Truck farming - Pennsylvania.
Central Market (Lancaster, Pa.)
Northern Market (Lancaster, Pa.)
Eastern Market (Lancaster, Pa.)
Western Market (Lancaster, Pa.)
Southern Market (Lancaster, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
641.3 H473
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The story of Indian Steps : Addresses delivered on the occasion of the dedication of a tablet to John Edward Vandersloot

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Date of Publication
[1941]
Call Number
917.4841 S887
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Place of Publication
[Place of publication not identified]
Publisher
[publisher not identified],
Date of Publication
[1941]
Physical Description
[5] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents
Rides to fame on a hobby, an address by A.E. McCollough.- A tribute to the man who built Indian Steps, an address by William Kurtz.
Summary
"The story of Indian Steps Cabin begins over ten thousand years ago.The area gets its name from the 'steps' carved in the nearby Susquehanna River's rocks by early people of the region who used the footholds while gathering food along the river. The arrows, spear heads, stone axes and other relics embedded in the building were the belongings of the first residents of York County." [from Indiansteps.org]
Subjects
Vandersloot, John Edward.
Indian Steps, Pa.
Additional Author
Kurtz, William.
McCollough, A. E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.4841 S887
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The "Sensineys" of America : Senseny, sensenig; Sensenich, Senseney

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Author
Sensenig, Barton,
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
929 S478
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compiled by Barton Sensenig, collaborating with R. Eugene (sensenig) Montgomery, Roscoe Lloyd Sensenich, Jeanette Senseney, and others.
Author
Sensenig, Barton,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
vi, 159 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Sensening family.
Senseny family.
Sensenig family.
Sensenich family.
Senseney family.
Additional Author
Montgomery, R. Eugene,
Sensenich, Roscoe Lloyd,
Senseney, Jeannette.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 S478
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Matthias Gish of White Oak; the history of an American family

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Author
Hamaker, J. I.
Date of Publication
1940.
Call Number
929 G532h
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by J. I. Hamaker. Lynchburg, Va.
Author
Hamaker, J. I.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Science Press Print. Co.,]
Date of Publication
1940.
Physical Description
367, [1] p. 20 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 323-330.
Subjects
Gish, Mathias, - d. 1757.
Gish family.
Germans - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 G532h
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Pastoral records of the Rev. John Conrad Bucher, 1763-1769

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Author
Bucher, John Conrad,
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
285.733 B919
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by John Conrad Bucher.
Author
Bucher, John Conrad,
Place of Publication
Photocopy
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
29 leaves ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Copied by William J. Hinke from the records in the possession of Mrs. A. J. Donaldosn, of Harrisburg, a lineal descendant of Conrad Bucher.
Carlisle (Cumberland Co, Pa.) 1763-1769, Middletown (Dauphin Co, Pa.) 1765-1769, Fredericktown alias Hummelstown (Dauphin Co, Pa.) 1765-1768, Falling Spring near Canogethique (Cumberland Co., Pa.), Bedford, Fort Pitt, Shippenstown, On Susquehannh, Sharpborough, Shippensborough, Coxtown alias Hestertown, Maytown, Bick Crossing of Jaghengeny, Fort Cumberland.
Subjects
Bucher, John Conrad, - 1730-1780.
Baptismal records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Baptismal records - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Baptismal records - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Additional Author
Hinke, William J.
Donaldson, Mrs. A. J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
285.733 B919
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John Seybert : a Hessian soldier's son who became bishop of a church

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Author
Heiges, George L.
Date of Publication
1943.
was in this period (1790-1800) that the Manheim Congregation was without a regular pastor, which may account for the fact that no trace is found in the Manheim Congregational records of the Seybert family. Concerning his early secular and religious training, John wrote, "When I was about seven years
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by George L. Heiges.
Author
Heiges, George L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
[1]-12 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 1
Subjects
Seybert, John, - 1791-1860.
Evangelical Association of North America - Clergy.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 1 (1943), p. 1-12Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47
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I heard of a river: A story of the Germans in Pennsylvania

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Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
813.54 S428i
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by Eslie Singmaster ; illustrated by Henry C. Pitz.
Author
Singmaster, Elsie,
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
J.C. Winston Co.,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
x, 209 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Series
Land of the free series
Summary
This is a story of Hannes, a German-Lutheran boy who joined a band of Swiss Mennonites fleeing from Europe's desperate terror and poverty of the 17th century. It is a story of the perils of Hannes' journey and the improvement of his rifle, brought from his fatherland.
Subjects
Families - Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life - Juvenile fiction.
German Americans - Juvenile fiction.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Juvenile fiction.
Pennsylvania.
Juvenile works.
History.
Additional Author
Pitz, Henry C.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.54 S428i
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