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Contributions to American history. 1858
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- Philadelphia : Lippincott for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1858
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- 1 leaf, v, 15-429, 7 pages : (partly folded) ; 24 cm
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- 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
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718.
- André, John, 1751-1780.
- Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805-1875.
- Society of the Cincinnati.
- Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794.
- Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Treaties.
- Delaware Indians -- Treaties.
- Acadians -- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.