Historical and biographical sketches
By: by Samuel W. Pennypacker
Series: Pennsylvania county and regional histories. Reel 8, no. 16
Publisher: R. A. Tripple
Published: 1883
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Mennonites -- Pennsylvania; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Pennsylvania -- History; Pennsylvania -- Biography
Notes: Part of the papers were previously published in the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, Harper's monthly, Penn monthly, Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia and Lippincott's magazine
Table of contents: value: The settlement of Germantown, Pa., and the causes which led to it.; value: David Rittenhouse, the American astronomer.; value: Christopher Dock, the pious schoolmaster on the Skippack, and his works.; value: Der blutige schauplatz, oder Martyrer spiegel. Ephrata, Pa., 1748. A noteworthy book.; value: Mennonite emigration to Pennsylvania.; value: Abraham and Dirck op den Graeff.; value: Zionitischer weyrauchs hügel oder myrrhen berg. Germantown, 1739.; value: William Moore of Moore hall.; value: Samuel Richardson, a councilor, judge and legislator of the olden time.; value: Captain Joseph Richardson.; value: Samuel John Atlee, colonel of the Pennsylvania musketry battalion in the revolutionary army.; value: James Abram Garfield.; value: Henry Armitt Brown.; value: Charles Frederick Taylor.; value: Six weeks in uniform, being the record of a term in the military service of the United States in the Gettysburg campaign of 1863