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The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature .
Samuel Penniman Bates (January 29, 1827 – July 14, 1902) was an American educator, author, and historian. He is known for his reference works on the American Civil War, including his multi-volume History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861–1865 which remains a frequently-used, preliminary research resource due to its narrative descriptions of unit activities and rosters of the regiments ...
Patrick Gordon (c. 1644 [1] – August 17, 1736 [2] [3]) was Deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties on the Delaware from 22 June 1726 to 4 August 1736. [4] He was deputy to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, the heirs of William Penn, rather than to a governor. Since the proprietors were usually in England, he was ...
This column was a response to the in-depth tests required of miners and inspectors by the Pennsylvania Mine Safety Act of 1885. [ 2 ] The I.T.C. merged the Colliery Engineer School of Mines, School of Mines, Correspondence Schools, and the International Correspondence School as the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania ...
Archives Remains Closed - UPDATE The Pennsylvania State Archives has completed the move to its new facility at 1681 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, PA, but certain systems that will be used by the public continue to be installed and tested. We expect these to be completed, and for the Archives to reopen to the public during December.
As finally published, the records consist of 138,579 pages with 1,006 maps and diagrams assembled in 128 books, [2] organized as 70 volumes grouped in four series, published between 1881 and 1901. Each of the four series of books in the compilation is divided into "volumes" numbered from the beginning of the series with Roman numerals. In ...
Brodhead married Elizabeth Dupui of Northampton County in April 1756. To this union was born one child, Ann Garton Brodhead. Upon the death of his first wife Elizabeth, he was married to Rebecca Mifflin the widow of Samuel Mifflin.
Pennsylvania Session Laws is an 18 volume collection of laws Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1809. [1] The first volume was published electronically in 2001; volumes 2 to 18 printed in the years spanning 1896 to 1915.