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Benjamin Lightfoot was deputy surveyor of Berks County. These surveys notes covered the areas of Pottsville to Shamokin.

Journals of a tour of Benjamin Lightfoot from Reading to Tankhannink Creek, and of surveys of a large tract of land there containing pine timber suitable for masts; topography of the country, Indian relations, frontier life, military posts, means of…

Journals of a tour of Benjamin Lightfoot from Reading to Tankhannink Creek, and of surveys of a large tract of land there containing pine timber suitable for masts; topography of the country, Indian relations, frontier life, military posts, means of…

The exhibition Ardent Spirits: The origins of the American temperance movement was held from Apr. 19, to Nov. 24, 1999, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. The curator was Jessy Randall.

The American Sunday-School Union generally did not include dates in the imprints on the books they published and kept titles in print for long spans of time. This cataloger’s aid was developed by Holly Phelps from information in the Union’s…

Blank pamphlet in plain wrappers, with share at centerfold; printed forms pasted in; pencil inscription on final page.
Library Company copy owned by shareholder Henry Hill; given by George Vaux to the Philadelphia Athenaeum in April 1991; given by…