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Chronicles of Pennsylvania. From the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle 1688-1748.
 [133280] (PENNSYLVANIA - COLONIAL AMERICA) Charles Keith .
[Philadelphia]: [s.n.], 1917. 981 pages. First Edition. Hardcover in publisher’s cloth. Two volumes, complete as published. Very good condition, clean tight set. Useful and comprehensive history of 17th and 18th century Pennsylvania. $45
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 Stated Meeting. Easton Lodge, No 152 … The Committee appointed at the last stated meeting of the Lodge to take into consideration a letter from a Committee of Lodge No. 43 held at Lancaster [first lines of printed circular]
[141982] (Pennsylvania - Freemasons) [Christian J. Hutter].
[Easton, Pennsylvania]: [s.n.], [1822]. Folio, 2¼ pages, untrimmed, with integral address leaf. Letterpress circular. Not in American Imprints nor OCLC. Formerly folded with red wax seal remnant, and postally transmitted to the Frankford Lodge in Philadelphia County. In very good clean condition. An interesting look at Democratic principles (or lack thereof) among subordinate Masonic lodges and the governing Grand Lodge in Pennsylvania. Apparently relations between local lodges in Western Pennsylvania and those closer to Philadelphia were strained to the point that the Easton Lodge felt unduly ostracized and under-represented within the fraternity of Pennsylvanian Freemasons. Signed in holograph by Christian J. Hutter, Easton newspaper publisher. Signed in type by James Madison Porter, Thomas J. Rogers, and Abraham Miller. James Madison Porter (1793-1862) was the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College. $150
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Inaugural Address of Governor Pollock, of Pennsylvania: Delivered at Harrisburg, on Tuesday, the 16th day of January, 1855.
[142122] (PENNSYLVANIA - GOVERNORS) [James Pollock].
[Harrisburg]: [s.n.], [1855]. Broadside. 24¼ x 19 inches. Three large columns within ornamental type border, wide margins. Fold lines, old dampstains, some browning to center fold, old ms. marginalia, else good. OCLC, two copies. A graduate of Princeton, James Pollock (1810-1890) served from 1855-1858 as Pennsylvania Governor. He was also director of the United States Mint and originated the phrase “In God We Trust”. Pollock's inaugural address focuses, in large part, to discussing banking and currency regulation in the state. Additionally, he speaks of Temperance movements afoot, and of Pennsylvania's opposition to the spread of slavery in free states, the Missouri Compromise, etc. $250
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 Hatfield Township: Through the Eyes of Time, A 250th Anniversary Album
[132802] (PENNSYLVANIA - HATFIELD TOWNSHIP) Phil Johnson Ruth .
Souderton: Ploughman, 1992. 110 pages. First Edition. 11" x 9" Hardbound. As new with a dust jacket in like condition. Illustrated with more than 250 vintage photographs celebrating the history of Hatfield Township. An evocation of life and the pageant of years in a once-rural Pennsylvania township that marked its 250th anniversary in 1992. A visual time line that includes an every-name index and a two hundred-date chronology for quick reference. $35
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A Boy From Kentucky Being a Little Journey to the Life of J. Leslie Davis.
[140519] (PENNSYLVANIA - KENTUCKY) Warren B. Davis & Leigh Mitchell Hodges .
Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1938. Quarto, 47 pages. First Edition. Hardbound. Illustrated with tipped-in half tones from photographs of his homes in Kentucky and Pennsylvania: Cave Spring Farm and Koolkenny. Very good condition. A tribute to J. Leslie Davis (872-1936), medical doctor, from Kentucky who taught at Jefferson College and the University of Pennsylvania. $25
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 1855 Illustrated Manuscript Survey in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Carpenter, Surveyor.
[133097] (PENNSYLVANIA - LANCASTER COUNTY [M. Carpenter Surveyor] Michael Martin & David O. Shirk.
[Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]: , 1855. Bifolium sheet. Darkly engrossed and vibrant. Fine condition with normal folds and docketed on verso. Beautiful illustrated manuscript survey accomplished and signed by M. Carpenter. Beautiful hand-drawn N-S compass, elaborate calligraphic form for the word "Draft" ("Draft of 62 acres and 69 perches of Land in Manheim"), excellent rendering of chimney house and nearby outbuilding along "Lancaster und Ephrata" turnpike, excellent execution of script. Property with subtle color outline. Neighboring properties belong to Jacob Stoner, P. and Elizabeth Frankfort, Henry Trout, John Buckwalter, Benjamin Johnson and David Stauffer. $125
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 1783 Manuscript Survey in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by John Clendinin, Surveyor.
[133096] (PENNSYLVANIA - LANCASTER COUNTY) [John Clendinin Surveyor] Abraham Whitmer & John Mussar.
: , . [Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania] Folio sheet on laid paper. Darkly engrossed; fine condition with normal folds. Manuscript survey accomplished and signed by John Clendinin who published "The Practical Surveyor's Assistant In Two Parts" in 1793 in Philadelphia. The small plat depicts the properties for Abraham Whitmer & John Mussar "Down Little Conestoga" river bordering property owned by a Peter Swan [?] This likely the same Abraham Whitmer (Witmer) praised in Klein's "History of Lancaster County" who built the Conestoga Bridge: "The magnificent nine-arch stone bridge, which carries the turnpike across the stream, was the enterprise of Abraham Witmer, a public-spirited citizen who, in 1795, obtained the Legislative charter, enabling him to erect it and to charge tolls until such time as he was recompensed or the county bought it; which it did in 1817, at a cost of $58,444.41. The beauty and endurance of this structure have commanded encomiums from architects and engineers. It is a monument of solidity, honesty, disinterestedness of the county's earlier citizens. The bridge bears the following inscriptions: ERECTED BY ABRAHAM WITMER MDCCXCIX-MDCCCI. A LAW OF AN ENLIGHTENED COMMONWEALTH THOMAS MIFFLIN, GOVERNOR, SANCTIONED THIS MONUMENT OF THE PUBLIC SPIRIT OF AN INDIVIDUAL 61 M TO P. THIS BRIDGE WAS BUILT BY ABR. WITMER AND MARY, HIS WIFE, AND COMPLETED IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1800. Abraham Witmer never received proper reward for his public service in building the Conestoga bridge. It seems incredible that along the King's highway, the busiest thoroughfare, no way across the Conestoga river other than by a ford should have been provided even fifty years after 'the road had been opened. The public fording still exists, though over part of it the tracks of the Lancaster and Eastern Street Railway Company now lie. "An Act of the Legislature in 1787 granted Abraham Witmer the privilege of building at his own expense, and of reimbursing himself, if possible, by the exaction of tolls. Under this act, it seems that Abraham Witmer built a wooden bridge, to serve the temporary need, apparently. Judge C. I. Landis writes: "The bridge built by Abraham Witmer under the act of 1787 was not the present bridge. That one was evidently a wooden bridge, and therefore a much lighter structure. When it was erected I cannot exactly say, but in May, 1789, the road leading from the King's Highway northward to what was known to us as Ranck's Mill, and before that as Andrew Graeff's Mill, was laid out, and it began as recited in the Court proceedings 'two perches west of Whitmer's Bridge, nearly opposite the fourth pillar, on the west side of said bridge and on the west side of Conestoga Creek,' etc. This and the former records referred to fix, therefore, the time of its construction as between June 17, 1788, and May, 1789." Act of April 4, 1798, supplemented the Act of 1787, and encouraged Abraham Witmer to undertake the more permanent work. He went ahead courageously with the construction of the stone bridge; and the "Lancaster journal" of Wednesday, November 12, 1800, issue carried the following notice: "Conestogoe Bridge-It is with great pleasure that Abraham Witmer inform the public that his new bridge will be completed to-morrow, on Which day, at one o'clock, the inscription stone will be fixed in the centre of the north wall of said bridge. The friends of Abraham Witmer and all other citizens desirous to see the same are respectfully informed thereof..." $125
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 Look at this Map of West Lancaster. Study it carefully and see if our prediction of two months ago that this beautiful suburb...
[133099] (PENNSYLVANIA - LANCASTER COUNTY) [Mueller & Co.] .
: , . [Lancaster, PA: Mueller & Co., 32 Centre Square. Nd., approx. 1900's.] Approx. 22" x 14½" Real estate advertising broadside with decorative border trim. Some splits along seams have been expertly mended. “Look at this Map of West Lancaster. Study it carefully and see if our prediction of two months ago that this beautiful suburb would be quickly sold out is not being rapidly fulfilled. Now don't think for a moment that the remaining lots are not as good as those we have sold...” Includes illustrated diagram showing sold lots near Columbia & Mount Joy trolley car line. Much cajoling going on in this wonderful advertising piece, in part: “You will find wide streets with substantial stone sidewalks; alleys in the rear of all lots; and That Greatest of All Conveniences, CITY WATER” [and] “Now don't delay your visit to West Lancaster, for if you put off going for one week you are just as apt to put it off for another and still another ... Just make up your mind to go to West Lancaster next Sunday and bring your family and your friends. All car fares will be refunded to you at the property.” $100
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This Indenture Made the [Twenty fifth] Day of [April] in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and [Sixty One] Between [George Reynolds and Ellenor his Wife] of the Town of Lebanon, in the County of Lancaster, and Province of Pen
[140877] (PENNSYLVANIA - LANCASTER COUNTY) [Various] .
: , . [Np., poss. Samuel Holland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1760]. Approx. 12 x 15 inches. A partly-printed parchment indenture, docketed, scalloped edges, with over forty printed lines of type interspersed with manuscript accomplishments. The parchment has an early, if not contemporary, diagonal stitched repair with old thread which is executed with great skill. This document conveyed land between George Reynolds and Ellenor his Wife of Lebanon, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and a Christian Peck of same, yeoman. The document is witnessed and signed by John Hay, J.P., a John Nicolaus Henniohess [sic?], Andrew Thredlin or Tredlin. There is also a bold signature of a Christian Beck with his adjacent red wax seal of a griffin, mounted on a red ribbon which is slotted through the document. (This may be Johann Christian Beck, gunpowder maker, progenitor of the Lebanon School of gunmakers, or possibly an unrelated, but similarly-named individual.) $250
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Constitution and By-Laws of the Union Fire-Company. Adopted January 26, 1836.
[141925] (PENNSYLVANIA - LANCASTER) [Union Fire Company].
[N.p.]: Union Fire Company, [1836]. 12mo, 11, [1, blank] pages. First Edition? Orig. blue wraps, sewn. Foxed, else very good. Not in American Imprints or OCLC. The Union Fire Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania claims to be the oldest volunteer fire company in the United States. Among its most notable members were President James Buchanan, George Ross (DOI signer), Edward Shippen, William Atlee, and others. The company is credited with implementing many improvements for firefighting companies: public water pumps, centralization of other volunteer companies, street lights, night watchmen, chemical apparatus, etc. This pamphlet lists nine laws which discuss requirements of members to take ladder, hook, and axe, upon hearing fire alarms; leather buckets required; an Engine committee; the roles of the Engineer and Director, and more. $250
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