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Description

1. v, 15-429, 7 p., [2] leaves of plates (part. folded) : ill.; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; v. 6

Uniform title

1. Publications of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; v. 6.
2. 19th-century legal treatises ; no. 27477-27481.
3. Making of modern law

Subject

1. Pennsylvania -- History.
2. Society of the Cincinnati.
3. Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794.
4. Acadians -- Pennsylvania.

Contents

1. Some account of the Society of the Cincinnati / by Alexander Johnston -- Journal of the general meeting of the Cincinnati in 1784 / by Major Winthrop Sargent ; ed. by W. Sargent -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- The case of Major André, with a review of the statement of it in Lord Mahon's History of England / by C.J. Biddle.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain