Contributions to American history.
Subtitle: 1858
Contributors: Johnston, Alexander; Ward, Townsend, 1817?-1885; Gallatin, James; Penn, William, 1644-1718; Reed, William B. 1806-1876; Biddle, Charles J. 1819-1873
Series: Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania -- vol. VI
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co., for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: André, John, -- 1751-1780; Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, -- 5th earl, -- 1805-1875.; Society of the Cincinnati; Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794; Acadians -- Pennsylvania
Notes: In another issue (1 p. l., v, 15-17, 3-59, 117-429 p.) the plates are wanting
Table of contents: value: Some account of the Society of the Cincinnati, by Alexander Johnston.; value: Journal of the general meeting of the Cincinnati in 1784, by Major Winthrop Sargent; ed. by W. Sargent.; value: The insurrection of the year 1794, in the western counties of Pennsylvania, by Townsend Ward; to which are appended General Wilkins's account of the gathering on Braddock's field, and a memoir on the insurrection, by James Gallatin.; value: Presentation to the Historical society of Pennsylvania of the belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn, at the great treaty under the elm tree, in 1682; to which are appended William Penn's letters to the Indians, plan for the union of the English colonies, and plan for the confederation of the states of Europe.; value: The Acadian exiles, or French neutrals, in Pennsylvania, by W. B. Reed; to which is appended A relation of their misfortunes, by J. B. Galerm.; value: The case of Major André, with a review of the statement of it in Lord Mahon's History of England, by C. J. Biddle