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Acts passed at the first session of the Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of New-York on Wednesday the fourth of March in the year M, DCC, LXXXIX, and of the independence of the United States, the thirteenth

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Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1793.
Call Number
Book 1016 1793
Book 1015 1798
Corporate Author
United States.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by E. Oswald,
Date of Publication
1793.
Physical Description
2 volumes 22 cm
Notes
Vol. 2 has title: Acts passed at the first session of the Second Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, in the year M, DCC, XCI, and of the independence of the United States, the sixteenth.
Each vol. includes all sessions of the respective Congress.
Includes indexes.
Cf. Evans 27825-6.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 1015 and 1016 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - United States.
Law.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1016 1793
Book 1015 1798
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Acts passed at the first [-third] session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven : and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first : published by authority

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Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
Alternate Title
Laws of the United States
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1797-1799)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by William Ross ...,
Date of Publication
1797.
Physical Description
240, vii, [4], 244-561, [1], 26, iv, [48] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2G⁴ [2H]⁴ 2I-4M⁴.
Printed marginalia.
Includes treaties.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 244 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Session laws - United States - Early works to 1800.
Diplomatic relations.
Session laws.
United States - Foreign relations - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingn)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
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Address on religious intolerance and political proscription, delivered at Lancaster, Pa., on the evening of the 24th of September

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Author
Forney, John W.
Date of Publication
1855.
Call Number
814 F727
Responsibility
By John W. Forney.
Author
Forney, John W.
Place of Publication
Washington
Date of Publication
1855.
Physical Description
51 p. 22 cm.
Subjects
American Party.
Catholic Church - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
814 F727
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
  1 website  
Responsibility
by the author of Common sense.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
Summary
One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
Websites
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The American Revolution : written in the style of ancient history : in two volumes

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Author
Snowden, Richard,
Date of Publication
1793-1794.
Call Number
810 P544 1793
Author
Snowden, Richard,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Jones, Hoff & Derrick,
Date of Publication
1793-1794.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Published anonymously. Written by Richard Snowden. Cf. Evans.
Publisher statement varies; v. 2 reads: Printed by Jacob Johnson ...
Vol. 1: xii, 226, [2] p. (the last leaf blank); v. 2: [12], 216 p.
LCHS missing volume 2.
LC copy imperfect: vol. 2 wanting four leaves of Contents (p. [3]-[10]).
Evans
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Miscellanea.
Additional Corporate Author
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
810 P544 1793
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An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures

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Author
Taylor, John,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1794
Author
Taylor, John,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Dobson ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
iv, 92 p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Attributed to Taylor by Evans.
Signatures: [A]² B-M⁴ N².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address, etc. recommendations to the states, by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783; -- An examaination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- lbert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Evans
Gilreath, J. Jefferson's library,
Subjects
Bank of the United States (1791-1811)
Finance - United States - Early works to 1800.
Finance.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797.
United States.
Early works.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1794
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An introductory lecture to a course of law lectures

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Author
Wilson, James,
Date of Publication
1791.
Call Number
Book 662 1791a
Responsibility
by James Wilson ... ; to which is added, a plan of the lectures.
Author
Wilson, James,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
From the press of T. Dobson,
Date of Publication
1791.
Physical Description
96 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² A-L⁴ M².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Collectanea Juridica. consisting of tracts relative to the law and constitution of England London: E. and R. Brooke, 1791.
Evans
Subjects
Law - United States - Early works to 1800.
Law.
Law
United States.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 662 1791a
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An oration delivered on the anniversary of the Scientific Society, eleventh November, 1793, at Society-Hall, Strasburg Village, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : at the request of the members

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Author
Shippen, John.
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
808.51 P544 1794
Responsibility
by John Shippen ...
Author
Shippen, John.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
23, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Inscribed to Gen'l Jas. Ross, Lancaster by the author.
Signatures: A-B⁶.
Evans
Bound in red linen.
Subjects
Political science - Early works to 1800.
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797.
Additional Author
Ross, James,
Additional Corporate Author
American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
808.51 P544 1794
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Collection
Denues Family Papers
Title
Denues Family Papers
Object ID
MG0528
Date Range
1855-1890
  1 document  
Collection
Denues Family Papers
Title
Denues Family Papers
Description
The Denues Family Papers contain documents related to the professional and military career of Charles Denues, as well as information about the Denues family. This collection also contains Civil War era items, including a $20 South Carolina note, and a presidential ticket from the 1864 election.
Admin/Biographical History
Charles Denues was born on 28 August 1923 in Shrewsbury Pennsylvania. He married Fannie Haines on 21 August 1859, and the couple had 8 children. Before enlisting to fight with the Union Army, Denues was a lawyer and a school teacher. In 1862 he enlisted, and became captain of the 135th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E on 12 August 1862. On 24 May 1863 he was honorably discharged with the rest of his company.
Date Range
1855-1890
Year Range From
1855
Year Range To
1890
Date of Accumulation
1855-1890
Creator
Denues family
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 11
People
Curtin, Andrew Gregg
Denues, Charles
Geary, John White
Johnson, Andrew
Lincoln, Abraham
Strawbridge, George W.
Subjects
Appointment to office
Appointments, Military
Military pensions
Money--Confederate States of America
Soldiers
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Search Terms
Ballots
Civil War
Elections
Finding aids
Manuscript groups
Military appointments
Pensions, Military
Military records
Money
Political appointments
Presidential elections
Soldiers
Extent
1 box, 7 folders, 15 items, 47 pages to scan, .25 cubic feet
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0528
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Civil War Collection, MG0018, Box 2, Folder 85
Civil War Collection, MG0018, Box 4, Folder 128
Civil War Collection, MG0018, Box 15, Books 1-4
James Buchanan Family Papers, JBFP 1.2.3.011
Notes
Preferred Citation: Denues Family Papers (MG0528), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-528
Other Number
MG-528
Classification
MG0528
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared by RA, 15 September 2015. Added to database 6 August 2021.
Documents
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Collection
Papers of Josiah F. Passmore
Title
Papers of Josiah F. Passmore
Object ID
MG0859
Date Range
1856-1858, 1863, 1893
Collection
Papers of Josiah F. Passmore
Title
Papers of Josiah F. Passmore
Description
Teacher's book of Josiah F. Passmore, Union High School for Girls and Boys, New Providence, Providence Twp., Lancaster County, 1856-1858, 1893
Scanned copy of letter from Josiah F. Passmore to his sister. Written in Falmouth, VA. 12 April 1863. (sent with Deed of Gift)
Date Range
1856-1858, 1863, 1893
Year Range From
1856
Year Range To
1893
Date of Accumulation
1856-1858, 1863, 1893
Creator
Shoffner, Shirey M.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 19
People
Passmore, Josiah F.
Subjects
Letters
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Search Terms
Civil War
Correspondence
Finding aids
Letters
Manuscript groups
New Providence, Providence Twp.
Union High School for Girls and Boys
Extent
2 items
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0859
Associated Material
More information about the Passmore family at Chester County History Center. http://www.chestercohistorical.org/online-catalog-0
Notes
Given in memory of Shirley M. Shoffner.
Not fully cataloged
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2021.037
Other Numbers
MG-859
Other Number
MG-859
Classification
MG0859
Description Level
Fonds
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