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Palatine & Palatinate; & Annotations to Strassburger & Hinke’s “Pennsylvania German Pioneers”
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Our Price: $10.00
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Ralph Dornfeld Owen (au); Friedrich Krebs (au)
Records of the Port of Phila. during the 18th cent. are filled with entries listing emigrates called Palatines. This article explains the meaning of this term. A courtier in the imperial palace of the old German Empire (700-1800 A.D.) was designed as a “comis palatinus,” Latin for “companion of the palace.” The word “comis” is the parent of the French title of nobility “comte” & of the English title “count.” The German equivalent is the title “graf.” The Latin adjective “palatinus” is derived from the noun “palatium,” English “palace,” German “palast.” Charlemagne employed some of his counts to administer certain crown lands, & they came to be called “palatinata”, i.e., lands under the supervision of palace officials. The English term is “palatinate,” the German “Pfalz.” (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1960)
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Pennsylvania Militia in 1777: A Reprint from “The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine,” Volume XXIII, Number 3
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Hannah Benner Roach (au)
Reprint of an article in “The PA Genealogical Mag.,” on the org. of the PA militia, as established under the act passed 17 March 1777. Complete records pertaining to the militia have not survived. Those which have been published in the various series of the “Pennsylvania Archives” are, in many instances, incorrectly identified & arranged in a confused manner. Too often, as a result, the fact that a man’s name appears in those records has been accepted as prima facie evidence that he was a patriot who served his country faithfully & diligently. The dual purpose of this study is to render intelligible the meaning of those records, & then to relate them to the actual operation of the militia, with particular reference to the first year of its operation under the act. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1964)
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Lost in Pennsylvania?: Try the Published “Pennsylvania Archives”
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Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer (au)
The published “Pennsylvania Archives” (PA) can be an intimidating reference source for the genealogical researcher. Its 138 vol. fill several library stacks. Yet the researcher who does look for ancestors in them may find rich veins of info., gaining clues about where his ancestor was & what the ancestor was doing at different times in his or her life. This article, reprinted from the “Penna. Genealogical Mag.” & is intended to demystify PA & give researchers the confidence to delve into it. Discuss what types of documents the various series of PA contain, the best order to work through them to obtain the most results quickly, & routes to follow to locate a set of PA. Includes a chart summarizing each volume’s contents & indexing. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999)
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How to Search for Your Revolutionary Patriot in Pennsylvania
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Dorothee Hughes Carousso (au)
There is a misconception that anyone who is interested in tracing his or her blood line to a Revolutionary patriot is interested only for the purpose of joining a hereditary patriotic society (HPS). One of the advantages of joining a HPS is that the established blood line -- & the services of the patriot -- become a permanent record in the files of the HPS. This guide explains the 2 steps in the search for a Revol. patriot. The 1st step is to prove your direct blood line back to the ancestor. This step is usually the most time-consuming & difficult, & must be employed for membership in a HPS. The 2nd step is to prove your ancestor’s service in the Revolution. This guide also includes a list of contents of the Unindexed “Penna. Archives” Which Relate to the Amer. Revol. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania)
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Guide to the Mortgages of the General Loan Office of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1724-1756
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Our Price: $25.00
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James M. Duffin (ed); Mark Frazier Lloyd (fr)
The General Loan Office of PA was created by an act of the Provincial Assembly passed 2 March 1722/23. The Assembly decided to issue paper money to help stimulate the lagging local economy. The success of the Loan was considerable, & the Assembly passed re-emission acts, whose most important feature was that the money returned from prior loans was used to grant new mortgages. The major series of records generated by the General Loan Office which survive are the registers of mortgages. The introduction to this guide discusses the history of the General Loan Office & describes the surviving Loan Office records. The volume’s exhaustive abstract to this primary source makes it accessible to genealogical research. Name Index. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1995)
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Guide to Records of the Sale of Commonwealth Property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780-1798
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Our Price: $20.00
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James M. Duffin (ed); Mark Frazier Lloyd (fr)
Abstracts the names of those whose wartime purchase of previously unsold Phila. County land helped fund the PA troops in the Amer. Revolutionary army. The individ. who paid their private fortunes into the provisional commonwealth gov’t. were taking financial risk & demonstrating real courage in their patriotism, for the land they were purchasing had been confiscated in 1779 from the Penn family proprietors of PA, who objected & asserted their continuing property rights. If the British had defeated the Amer. revolutionaries, the restored proprietary courts would have ruled the sales null & void & perhaps declared them an act of treason. The land would have reverted to the Penn family & the Amer. purchase money lost. Includes street locations. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1996)
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Colonial Philadelphians
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Our Price: $35.00
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Hannah Benner Roach (au); Russell F. Weigley (in)
Hannah Josephine Benner Roach (1907-1976) was a distinguished genealogist & also an architect & historian. This volume of selected examples of her published articles represents something of the breadth of her interests & abilities, as well as her meticulous care as a researcher in genealogy. Contents: The Blackwell Rent Roll, 1689; Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690; Taxables in Chestnut, Middle & South Wards Philadelphia, 1754; Taxables in the City of Philadelphia, 1756; Philadelphia’s Colonial Poor Laws, & Taxables in Chestnut, Walnut & Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, 1767; & Genealogical Gleanings from Dr. Rush’s Ledger A. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999)
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Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1761-1800
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Our Price: $15.00
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J. Zeamer (ed)
From the collection of J. Zeamer, by the Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Library. Lists Marriage Bonds contracted prior to 1800 in Cumberland County, filed away among other very old papers in the Court House at Carlisle, PA. Compiled for two sources; Cumberland County Marriage Bonds, & Marriages Performed by the Rev. John Welder. Each source is presented alphabetically by groom’s surname. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania)
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So You Are Being Proposed for Membership in a Hereditary Society; What Is a Document?
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Robert LeConte Halberstadt (au); Dorothee Hughes Carousso (au)
Combines two articles published by The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in their “Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine”. The ever increasing interest in genealogy has brought many queries about joining one or more of the hereditary patriotic societies from people who discover that they might have some qualifying ancestors. Often prospective members are confused, & even some of the societies are confused as to their own administrative procedures for new candidates & what documentation is required to prove the lineage. The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania through its Committee of Hereditary & Patriotic Societies recommends certain standards for admittance procedure & genealogical documentation. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1980)
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Holcombe -- Doane -- Henke: Family History 1812-1983: volume I
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Our Price: $30.00
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Mary Alice Henke (au)
A copy of a 91-year-old program about the Holcombe Reunion held Aug. 21, 1891, in William F. Holcombe’s Grove between Mount Airy & Lambertville, New Jersey; & an old newspaper clipping about the passing of B. Anderson Holcombe of Delaware Township in New Jersey, were found among the memorabilia in a trunk which had belonged to Mary Olive Holcombe Henke. These two items gave author Mary Alice Henke the clues to begin her research for this lineage in New Jersey. Extensive index. Black & white photos. (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1983)
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