A record of warrants issued to open streets in the city of Lancaster. Pages are pre-printed forms with spaces to record date, court term, name of street, petitioner, jurors and viewers, court order, condemnation proceeding, costs, and signature of clerk. Arranged chronologically and indexed by street name.
Rights
May not be photocopied.
Notes
Finding aid in the repository: Local government records.
Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition of books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, October 1983 to January 1984
Historical map of Pennsylvania. Showing the Indian names of streams, and villages, and paths of travel; the sites of old forts and battle-fields; the successive purchases from the Indians; and the names and dates of counties and county towns; with tables of forts and proprietary manors
with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and historical & bibliographical notes by Julian P. Boyd.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1938.
Physical Description
iii-lxxxviii, 340 pages : double map ; 41 cm
Notes
Map of the Iroquois confederacy, 1736-1762, by Margaret Van Doren (on lining-papers); Lewis Evans' map of the Indian walking purchase, 1738 (double map between p. iv and [v].
Three notices of auction laid in before title page.
"The thirteen treaties are given in exact facsimile in this volume."--Bibliographical note.
Lancaster Treaty of 1748 pg. 109; Lancaster Treaty of 1762, pg. 1762.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgment.--Introduction, by Carl Van Doren.--Indian affairs in Pennsylvania, 1736-1762, by J.P. Boyd.--Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762.--Bibliographical notes and census (p. 301-308).--Conrad Weiser's journal during the Albany treaty of 1745.--Benjamin Chew's journal during the Easton treaty of 1758.--James Pemberton's journal during the Lancaster treaty of 1762.--Glossary.--List of subscribers.--Index.
