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Collection: Jacob Murr Family Photograph Collection

Object ID: JM-01-01-17

Date Range: 1912

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Jacob Murr Family Photograph Collection

Description: Three women standing on the porch of a two story frame house with a stone wall with picket gate in front. Photograph is hand tinted. Written on front: "Down Home". Written on back: "Fishing Creek, Pa. Summer 1912. F. E. C."

Provenance: From MG-241 Jacob Murr Family Genealogy Collection.

Date Range: 1912

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Search Terms: House; Fishing Creek

Place: Drumore Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches

Object ID: JM-01-01-17

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 1-17-02-51

Date Range: circa 1907

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Large group of people, 6 men, 11 women, 4 children. Back of picture says:; Front Row left to right: Verle Creamer, George Croy, Jacob C, Fannie, Myrtle, Rellie; Second Row: Cora Creamer, James (father) and Mathersa (mother) Naomi (sister to Mathersa) Annie and son Wilbur; Third row: Lewis and wife, Alice, Ed, Louise, Albert, Lottie, William, Naomi, Enos.; Taken at Fishing Creek in orchard about 1907

Date Range: circa 1907

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Creamer, Verle; Croy, George; Creamer, Cora; Aument, Myrtle Aument; Aument, Myrtle; Creamer, Jacob C.; Creamer, Lewis; Creamer, Alice Ressel; Ressel, Alice

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Fishing Creek; Families; Orchards

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Film Size: 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Object ID: 1-17-02-51

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Jacob Murr Family Photograph Collection

Object ID: JM-01-02-14

Date Range: c. 1918

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Jacob Murr Family Photograph Collection

Description: James Henry Murr, Sr., son of Herbert Leon Murr and Fannie Edith Cramer Murr. Taken at Fishing Creek, Drumore Township.

Provenance: From MG-241 Jacob Murr Family Genealogy Collection.

Date Range: c. 1918

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Murr, James

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches

Object ID: JM-01-02-14

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Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Object ID: CommOrder 1831 #154

Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Description: This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.

System of Arrangement: The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.

Date of Accumulation: 1810-1901

Year: 1831

Creator: County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0011

People: Newton. John; Newton, Aaron; Tower, Jack H.; Webster, Daniel; Webster, Washington; Westley, John; Westley, Ann Eliza

Search Terms: Drumore Twp.; Poor children; Teachers; Commissioners' Orders for Payment; African Americans; Persons of color

Place: Drumore Twp.

Extent: 70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)

Object Name: Documents

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2008-03-25

Object ID: CommOrder 1831 #154

Box Number: 011

Notes: Entered into Q&A 1993/04/09.

Additional Notes: Poor children.; Fishing Creek School.; Newton. John. African American. Father of Newton, Aaron.; Tower, Jack H. Teacher.; Webster, Daniel. African American. Father of Webster, Washington; Westley, John. African American. Father of Westley, Ann Eliza.; 1 item. 1 piece.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 08-01 0510

Description Level: Item

Local superstitions

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1905

for three months. "Prawl's Hollow," a lonely place in Drumore township, this county, is haunted by the spirit of a peddler who was killed there; and old Lupin, who broke his neck on Fishing creek, can still be seen there of nights. There are several haunted houses that can- not be occupied; one that

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Responsibility: by S. M. Sener, Esq.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [233]-245 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 8

Subjects: Superstition.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 8 (1905), p. 233-245Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-02-02-52

Date Range: 1905

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Press Club outing. Group of men on a dock along a creek, some are fishing.

Date Range: 1905

Creator: Weber, Otto E.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Lancaster Press Club; Outings; Fishing

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 10 x 10 inches

Object ID: 2-02-02-52

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Negative, Glass Plate

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Collection: Lancaster Camera Club Collection

Object ID: LC-01-06-53

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Object Name: Negative, Glass Plate

Collection: Lancaster Camera Club Collection

Description: Fishing

Provenance: Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.

Year Range From: 1910

Year Range To: 1920

Creator: Landis, David Bachman

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Creeks; Fishing

Object Name: Negative, Glass Plate

Film Size: 4 x 5 inches

Object ID: LC-01-06-53

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The Scotch-Irish : their impress on Lancaster County

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1905

to, dur- ing and after the Revolutionary War, but they established and maintained for many years what was known as "The Latin School" on a Fishing Creek farm, in Drumore township. This in- stitution gave an impulse to higher education that has lasted ever since. It sent scores of young men from Lower

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Responsibility: by Hon. W. U. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1905

Physical Description: [246]-268 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 9, no. 8

Subjects: Scots-Irish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 9, number 8 (1905), p. 246-268Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.9

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Postcard

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Collection: Postcard Collection

Object ID: 911-016-024

Date Range: before 1907

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Object Name: Postcard

Collection: Postcard Collection

Description: The Conestoga and Bathing Resorts, Lancaster, Pa. View of People's Bathing Resort and Rocky Springs on the Conestoga Creek.

Date Range: before 1907

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Recipient: Miss Edythe Card, Paterson, NJ 69 Bloomfield Ave., c/o George Stoll

Sender: Ara W. K.

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Postcard

Print Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches

Publisher: L. B. Herr

Object ID: 911-016-024

Additional Notes: "8/10/1906 P.M. My dear friend, This is a place 15 min. trolley ride from Lancaster. Here is stream where I fish for bass. Will ans. your letter and send photos soon. Seem busy this week with sermon on hand etc. Had letter from Ted at two postals from you same day got your letter. Yours, Ara W. K."; Postmarked August 11, 1906 Lancaster and Paterson, NJ

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Tour through the northeastern section of Lancaster County

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1904

creek. On these periodical Journeys Mr. Hensel has been accompanied by many of our own citizens and by distinguished strangers. The late George Nauman, W. A. Atlee and W. B. Middleton were frequent participants; Vice President Stevenson, Supreme Court Justice Sam'l G. Thompson, United States Con- �sul

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Responsibility: by Hon. W. U. Hensel.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1904

Physical Description: [256]-266 p. ; 23 cm.

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

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Cocalico Valley (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 8, number 8 (1904), p. 256-266Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.8

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Manheim Township and its part in the Indian history of the county

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Author: Martin, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1915

Quarter Sessions the first Tuesday of following August. The boundary of Manheim township, as agreed upon and not since material- ly changed, was: Beginning by Peter's Road at a corner of Donegal and War- wick townships, near the head of little Conestoga creek, thence down the said road by Warwick township

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Responsibility: by C. H. Martin.

Author: Martin, C. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1915

Physical Description: 163-173 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 6

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Manheim Township (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 19, number 6 (1915), p. 163-173Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.19

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Odds and ends of local history

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1906

stream abound- ed in fish of many kinds. Shad, her- ring and salmon ran up the Conestoga and its tributaries, Mill Creek, the Little Conestoga, Cocalico and Muddy Creek, supplying the people in the in- terior part of the county with an abundance of this excellent fish. But when mills came along, dams

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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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Anderson's ferry

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1907

descendants were distinguished offrcers in the Mexican war, and others are now prominent in the United States Army. John Pedan owned the farm and hotel at Big Chickies creek, where Garber's mill now is. He was a son of Captain Hugh Pedan, a Revolutionary officer. He married a daughter os Zachariah Moor and

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Responsibility: by S. M. Sener, Esq.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1907

Physical Description: [252]-257 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 7

Summary: This early 20th century article recounts the various settlements in the area near and around Marietta: Anderson's Ferry, Waterford, New Haven. It details how land was passed through generations.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Marietta (Pa.) - History.; Anderson's Ferry (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 11, number 7 (1907), p. 252-257Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.11

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Sketch of Judge Thomas Edwards

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1909

more. The land to which he was entitled in these war- rants he had located on both sides of the Conestoga Creek in one tract, near the head of the creek, in the neighborhood of Spring Grove. now Earl township, Lancaster county. (See Taylor papers, Pennsylvania Histor- ical Society.) He built his house

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Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1909

Physical Description: [111]-127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 5

Subjects: Edwards, Thomas, - 1673-1764.; Judges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 13, number 5 (1909), p. 111-127Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.13

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Madame Mary Ferree and the Huguenots of Lancaster County

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Author: Landis, Charles Israel,

Date of Publication: 1917

Creek in the Township of Strasbur g in Chester County survey'd 23- of 8br 1710 Isaac Taylor Nothingpaidon theIc(obl.) 2120 �of Conestogoe, near the head of Pequea Creek. The following order was then issued: "Philadelphia, Oct. 10, 1710. "By a warrant from the Commissioners of Property, dated the Eighth

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Responsibility: by Judge C. I. Landis.

Author: Landis, Charles Israel,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1917

Physical Description: 101-124 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 21, no. 6 & 7

Subjects: Ferree, Mary, - d. 1716.; Huguenots - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 22, number 6/7 (1917), p. 101-124Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.21

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A plea for the Conestoga River

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1912

been my lot to encounter the name in manuscript and in print anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 times, more nearly the latter than the former, perhaps, and only about once in a thousand times is it even by accident called a river. It is the Conestoga "Creek" to most of our people, "and it is nothing more

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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: 1912

Physical Description: 5-33 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 1

Subjects: Rivers - Europe.; Conestoga River (Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 16, number 1 (1912), p. 5-33Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.16

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The canals of Pennsylvania and the system of internal improvements

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Author: Klein, Theodore B.

Date of Publication: 1901.

Call Number: 386.4 K64

, steam was introduced as the motive power and rapid transit became the demand, when laboring under a debt of $40,000,000 and a clamor for relief, negotiations were - �Ga na! Waste Way, with "W hi tney" anti-friction gates, near D a u phin, Pa. �Canal Aqueduct crossing Fishing Greek , at F ort Hunter, P a

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Alternate Title: Extract from annual report of Isaac B. Brown, Superintendent Bureau of Railways, to James W. Latta, Secretary of Internal Affairs, for year ending June 30, 1900.

Responsibility: by Theodore B. Klein.

Author: Klein, Theodore B.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg?]

Publisher: Wm. Stanley Ray,

Date of Publication: 1901.

Physical Description: 28 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "Extract from annual report of Isaac B. Brown, superintendent, Bureau of Railways, to James W. Latta, secretary of Internal Affairs, for year ending June 30, 1900."

Summary: Includes photos of canal structures in Columbia, Wrightsville, Harrisburg, and Dauphin.

Subjects: Canals - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book; Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 386.4 K64

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1906

creek, about half a mile north of Brownstown, and four or five miles south of Ephrata,inWestEarl township, The first mill built on this site was erected in 1831, just seventy-five years ago, by Mr. Jacob Zook, the father of the present owner and operator, John K. Zook. The present mill is not the one

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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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The location of Susquehannock Fort

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Author: Landis, David H.,

Date of Publication: 1910

death in 1681), purchased a tract be- tween the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, for Wm. Penn, from the In- dians. The western boundary of this was marked by "Fort Demolish- ed"(21), which, he states, is on the Susquehanna River, about four miles above the Conestoga Creek. Penn states that a road had

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Responsibility: by D. H. Landis.

Author: Landis, David H.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1910

Physical Description: 81-117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 3

Subjects: Susquehannock Fort (York County, Pa.); Susquehanna Indians.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities.; York County (Pa.) - Antiquities.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 14, number 3 (1910), p. 81-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.14

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Local superstitions

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Negative, Glass Plate

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The Scotch-Irish : their impress on Lancaster County

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Tour through the northeastern section of Lancaster County

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Manheim Township and its part in the Indian history of the county

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Odds and ends of local history

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Anderson's ferry

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Sketch of Judge Thomas Edwards

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Madame Mary Ferree and the Huguenots of Lancaster County

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A plea for the Conestoga River

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The canals of Pennsylvania and the system of internal improvements

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