This collection contains documents beginning with the American Revolution and continuing through the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. There are account books, notes and written letters, vouchers, inspections of camps, receipts of payments, honorable discharge certificates, lists of absentees, envelopes used during the Civil War, and lists of unpaid fines during the service of the Pennsylvania Militia soldiers. There are also newsletters and articles relating to World Wars I and II and the Korean War for advertisement and description of items including the history of the Philadelphia Naval Base.
The Pennsylvania state trials: : containing the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of Francis Hopkinson, and John Nicholson, Esquires. The former being judge of the Court of Admiralty, and the latter, the comptroller-general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. : Vol. I. : [One line in Latin from Virgil]
Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, for Edmund Hogan.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCIV [i.e. 1795].
Physical Description
xii, 776 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Dedication signed: Edmund Hogan. Philadelphia, January, 1795.
No more published.
Signatures: piⶠ[A]â´ B-5Eâ´.
Errors in paging: p. viii, 559 misnumbered iii, 549.
"The names of the subscribers."--Page [ix]-xii.
"An account of the impeachment and trial of the late Francis Hopkinson ..."--Page [1]-62, with separate title page.
"An account of the impeachment, trial, and acquittal of John Nicholson ..."--Page [65]-772, with separate title page.
"An alphabetical list of the letters, official documents, witnesses ... published in this volume, from page 5 to page 772, inclusively."--Page [733]-776.