Compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle. Transcription of ads for runaway servants taken from 24 colonial newspapers from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New York. The ads provide information on more than 2,500 persons, giving name, age, sex, height, place of origin, occupation, speech, clothing, physical imperfections, and more. | Publication Date: 2016 | Number…
Compiled by D. K. Copper. Tombstone inscription readings and burial records from local newspapers, death register and family histories, with additional genealogical data. Surname index includes Allen, Bell, Black, Carr, Clendenning, Collins, Donley, Gilson, Hillard, Hutsler, Litzenberg, Mahon, McConnell, Michael, Miller, Potter, Sholler, Simison, Sonntag, Tenant, Wimer and many others. | 29 pages | Paperback.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Berry Buffa | Includes Jeremiah and Samuel Spencer and their descendants| Publication Date: 1987 | Number of Pages: 58, plus index of names| Condition: Good. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover |
By Richard E. Crawford, Tucson, AZ, and John L. Fox, New York, NY |Publication Date: December 1999 | Number of Pages: 149 | Condition: Very Good. Never circulated. | Format: Hardcover | Product Identifier: ISBN# 0-9703487-0-7
By Gilbert Ernest Swope. | Publication Date: 1898| Number of Pages: 228 | Condition: Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover
Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills, 1748-1763 by F. Edward Wright | 1995 First Edition | Paperback | 290 pages | Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.65 inches | These wills were done under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence, and occupation of…
Wills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1713-1748 | 1993 | Paperback | 206 pages | ISBN: 1585492612 | Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 inches | Based on the abstracts of Jacob Martin | Names of testator, heirs, trustees, guardians, executors, and other persons named in the will; dates in the will were written and proved.
By Paul Stuart Warren and James E. Warren. 2001. How to access the world’s largest genealogy resource. Paperback, 156 pages. Condition: Good. Library copy with library notations; never circulated.
Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter’s was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the…
J. E Wright. Doris S. Corbett, Paperback. A fascinating look at life during pioneer times in western Pennsylvania. Describes the hardship, danger, and drudgery of day-to-day life on the frontier. Topics include cabin raising, crop harvests, tanning, weaving, disease, religion, and superstition. Also follows the progression from pioneer life to the industrial society. Pioneer Life…
The book contains a building history of the area, a delineation of a series of “preservation districts”, where the structures together form neighborhoods of distinction and delight (these include Manchester, parts of South Side, Lawrenceville, Thornburg, Shadyside, and Elizabeth Borough), and a register of buildings that are considered architecturally or historically important. More than a…
A History of the Borough of New Eagle, Pennsylvania, Diamond Jubilee – 1912-1987. Publisher: New Eagle Diamond Jubilee Committee. Paperback. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings.
By Lillien Potisek, Hilda Stull, Thomas Viencek. January 1, 1976. illustrated from photographs and drawings. Green paper covers with drawing printed on the front. 11″ x 8.5″. Paperback. 69 pages. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings.
By Andrew J. Waychoff. Reprinted 1975 by Greene County Historical Society. A project of the American Revolution Bicentennial Observance, 1776-1976. Paperback. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings. 122 pages.
Taken in the Year 1799, Pennsylvania. Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, S.N.D. North, Director. Washington Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. 190 pages. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings.
Orphan’s Court Docket I, 1789-1820, abstracted by K.T.H. McFarland. January 1, 1990. Hardcover. Pages. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings.
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