I. Slavery: the colonial and early national period -- II. Free black life in the antebellum period: political, legal and socio-economic status -- III. The Civil War period -- IV. Reconstruction and the late nineteenth century -- V. The early twentieth century and World War I -- VI. The twenties and the New Deal decades -- VII. World War II and the modern era.
Notes
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Alexander Graydon (1752-1818) was appointed prothonotary of Dauphin County in 1785, a position he occupied for the next fourteen years after which he retired to a small farm near Harrisburg. He moved back to Philadelphia in 1816 and passed away at the age of sixty-six. In his Memoirs in a chapter subtitled "Yellow Fever," Graydon reports that "a malady not less fatal than that in Philadelphia was raging" in Harrisburg in 1793. The mortality of the two was comparable. The symptoms of the Harrisburg disease included affection of the stomach or nausea with violent retching, yellowness of the skin, and black vomit in some cases. Illness duration was perhaps a week, sometimes longer, and some died in two to three days. Other ambulatory victims with symptoms only of ague suddenly became quite ill and expired.Graydon himself was ill with a quartan ague in mid-September but had no other symptoms. He attributed the origin of the illness to marsh effluvia caused by "torrid sun acting upon moist soil, or upon impure and stagnant water." [from the text]
Pennsylvania History, a Journal of MId-Atlantic Studies Voluem 78, number 3 (Summer 2011), p. 272-286Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 PHA v. 782011
A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
"The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.
Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Evans
Summary
This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]
Das Herz des Menschen, ein Tempel Gottes, oder eine Werkstätte des Satans : in zehn Figuren sinnbildlich dargestellt. Zur Erweckung und Beförderung des christlichen Sinnes : nach der vierten verbesserten Augsburger Auflage
Nach der deutschen uebersetzung von dr. Martin Luther. Mit kurzem inhalt eines jeden capitels, vollständiger anweisung gleicher schriftstellen und aller sonn- und festtäglichen evangelien und episteln. Mit 12 bildern geziert.
Edition
10te. mit stereotypen gedruckte aufl.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
S. Peters,
Date of Publication
1839.
Physical Description
511, 5 p. : front., plates ; 17 cm.
Notes
Leather over boards with one clasp missing and no spine label.