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1710 Pequea Settlement tour resource information booklet

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Author
Wenger, Samuel Esbenshade.
Date of Publication
1999.
Call Number
974.815 WLAM W474
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compiled and written by Samuel Esbenshade Wenger.
Author
Wenger, Samuel Esbenshade.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
the author ,
Date of Publication
1999.
Physical Description
169 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
This report contains historical maps of the area and genealogical data of families who settled within each tract of the Pequea Settlement.
Contents
Brief History--Historical Maps--Martin Kendig Tract # 1--John Funk Tract #2--Jacob Miller Tract #3--Christopher Franciscus Tract # 4--Johann Rudolph Bundeli Tract #5--Wendel Bowman Tract #6--John (Hans) Herr Tract #7--Marti Kendig Tract #8--Christian Herr Tract #9--Martin Mylin Tract #10--Martin Kendig Tract #11.
Subjects
West Lampeter (Pa. : Township)
Pequea Valley (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Lancater County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 WLAM W474
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1712 Pequea settlement tour : eastern 4000 acre section of the Martin Kendig tract settled by the Ferree and LeFevre families

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Author
Wenger, Samuel Esbenshade.
Date of Publication
2001]
Call Number
974.815 WLAM W474b
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Alternate Title
Pequea settlement tour
Seventeen-twelve Pequea settlement tour
1712 Pequea settlement tour (eastern portion)
Responsibility
... written and compiled by Samuel E. Wenger.
Author
Wenger, Samuel Esbenshade.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society,
Date of Publication
2001]
Physical Description
ii, 20 p. ; 28 cm. + 2 folded maps ; 28 x 44 cm.
Notes
"This tour is sponsored by Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society ...."
Subjects
Ferree family.
Ferree, Daniel, - 1652-1708 - Family.
Ferree, Marie Warrenberre, - ca. 1653-1716 - Family.
Lefevre family.
LeFevre, Isaac, - b. 1669 - Family.
LeFevre, Catherine Ferree, - 1679-1749 - Family.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 WLAM W474b
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The 1869 diary of Samuel R. Hess of Clay Township, Lancaster County : Mennonite, farmer & nurseryman

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Author
Hess, Samuel R.,
Date of Publication
c1997
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV v. 22
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introduction, transcribed & indexed by Clarence Edwin Spohn.
Author
Hess, Samuel R.,
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley,
Date of Publication
c1997
Physical Description
viii, 48 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series
Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ;
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
This issue contains the transcription of the 1869 diary of Clay Township resident Samuel R. Hess, and provides a day-to-day look at the life of a typical Mennonite farmer and businessman. The diary has been indexed by name and provides a list of local residents with whom Hess had contact with.
Subjects
Hess, Samuel R., - 1830-1906 - Diaries.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Farmers - Pennsylvania
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Spohn, Clarence E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV v. 22
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Abram W. Sollenberger family

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Author
Sollenberger, Samuel Grove.
Date of Publication
1968]
Call Number
929 S688
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Author
Sollenberger, Samuel Grove.
Place of Publication
[Gettysburg, Pa
Date of Publication
1968]
Physical Description
94 p. illus. 23 cm.
Subjects
Sollenberger family.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 S688
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Abstract of the laws of Pennsylvania, now in force, relative to the militia. April 20, , 1788

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXXVIii. [178*]
Call Number
Book 591 1788
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Responsibility
Taken from a digest of John Nicholson, Esquire, comptroller-general for the state of Pennsylvania.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head in Market Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. LXXXVIii. [178*]
Physical Description
50 + pages 21 cm.
Notes
LCHO's copy lacks pages 51+.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Col. Sam Postlewaite at top of title page.
Signature of John Nicholson at bottom of title page.
Book number 591 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Military law - Pennsylvania.
Pennyslvania - Militia.
Linen cover (Binding)
Spine repaired (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Postlewaite, Samuel,
Nicholson, John,
Aitken, Robert,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 591 1788
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The Acadians in Lancaster County

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Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1897
, Samuel Brown and Abra- ham De Normandie ; for Chester county, Nathaniel Pennock, Nathaniel Grubb and John Hannum ; for Lancaster county, Calvin Cooper, James Webb and Samuel LeFevre. The act required them within twenty days after its passage to order and ap- point the Acadians as to them appeared most
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by S. M. Sener, Esq.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1897
Physical Description
[37]-43 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 2
Summary
This journal article details the expulsion of the French Acadians of Canada to the American Colonies during the French and Indian War. Some of the Acadians arrive in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Subjects
Acadians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 2 (1897), p. 37-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1
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Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster

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Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1887]
Call Number
282 S 475
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Responsibility
by S.M. Sener.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
S.M. Sener,
Date of Publication
1887]
Physical Description
5 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
Sener, S.M. Historical pamphlets, no.5
Notes
Reprinted from U.S. Catholic historical magazine, 1887.
Bound with other pamphlets by the author: The Catholic Church at Lancaster, Penn'a (1894, 52 p.) -- Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa. (n. d., 12 p) -- Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster (n. d., 5 p.) -- Some Lancaster Catholics, adn other historical notes (n.d ., 6 p.) -- Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, V. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priest's [sic] of Pennsylvania (n. d. 10 p.) -- The Acadians in Lancaster County, Paper read before Lancaster County Historical Society, September 4, 1896 (1896, 8 p.) -- Simon S. Rathvon, Ph.D: Lancaster's oldest living devotee of science (n. d. 8 p.) -- Old time heroes of the War of the Revolution and War of 1812-14 (1895, 11 p.) -- The Lancaster barracks where the British and Hesian prisoners were detained during the Revolution (1895, 20 p.
Saint Mary's was the the first Catholic Church of Lancaster. It was built in the mid eighteenth century.
Subjects
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
282 S 475
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Advice from a lady of quality, to her children; in the last stage of a lingering illness, in a series of evening-conferences on the most interesting subjects

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Date of Publication
1779.
Call Number
372 A245
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Responsibility
Translated from the French [by Samuel Glasse]
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
P. Highly,
Date of Publication
1779.
Physical Description
2 v. in 1. 17 cm.
Notes
Name cut from top margin of t.-p.
Subjects
Conduct of life.
Additional Author
Glasse, Samuel,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
372 A245
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Alexander Lowrey: a poem

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Author
Evans, Samuel,
Date of Publication
1907.
extended sketch os Donegal township and its early settlers, who took the text-oath besore James Bayly, which is on record in the Recorder's office. Rev. Colin McFarquhar's name is not among them. -------------------------- ALEXANDER LOWREY. BY MRS. SAMUEL EVANS. In Donegal, in Erin's Isle Stern Scotia's
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by Mrs. Samuel Evans.
Author
Evans, Samuel,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1907.
Physical Description
31-32 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 1
Notes
Colonel Alexander Lowrey commanded a battalion of Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolutionary War. He participated in the Battles of Germantown and Brandywine and the New Jersey campaigns.
Subjects
Lowrey, Alexander - Poetry.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 11, number 1 (1907), p. 31-32Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.11
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Alphabetized, cross referenced, and coded indexes to the 1876 Atlas of York County, Pennsylvania in two volumes

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Author
Gross, Patricia A.
Date of Publication
c1991-
Call Number
912.74841 A881 Index
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Responsibility
compiled and edited by Patricia A. Gross, Leonard A. Heilman, and Samuel J. Saylor.
Author
Gross, Patricia A.
Place of Publication
York
Publisher
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,
Date of Publication
c1991-
Physical Description
v. <1-2 > ; 28 cm.
Series
Special publication ; no. 44-<45 >
Contents
v. 1. Individual name index -- v. 2. Subject index.
Subjects
Nichols, Beach. - Indexes.
Landowners - Pennsylvania - York County
York County (Pa.) - Genealogy - Indexes.
York County (Pa.) - Maps - Indexes.
Additional Author
Heilman, Leonard A.
Saylor, Samuel J.
Nichols, Beach.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Atlas
Call Number
912.74841 A881 Index
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