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Title: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, General Assembly Records, 1783-1859 (bulk 1790-1838)
Description: A small collection of records of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania holds late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century correspondence, reports, petitions, and maps filed with the Assembly by government officials, politicians, corporations, and citizens. Among the documents are letters sent to the Senate by Governor Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800), and the Seneca Indian Chief Cornplanter (1732?-1836) who appeared before the legislators in 1790., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org.
Date: 1783
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 017, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64748#page/1/mode/1up

Title: An essay of a declaration of rights brought in by the committee appointed for that purpose, and now under the consideration of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania
Description: Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed area measures: 32.9 x 17 cm., Library Company copy 962.F.92 annotated in the hand of Benjamin Franklin.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Constitutional Convention, (1776)
Date: [1776]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con 962.F.92, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con Dickinson 24.7

Title: The election, humbly inscrib'd to the Saturday-Nights Club, in Lodge Alley
Description: At the top, depicts the 1765 the election for the county and city of Philadelphia. In the left, shows Britannia, depicted as a white woman, with a shield with the Union Jack and a liberty cap and pole, saying "Oh my sons, my sons." America, depicted as a white woman, carries a sword and replies "Don't grieve too much sister." Treachery, depicted as a white women with two faces, stands behind Britannia with a dagger and says, "I hope that will do for you Madam." A large group of men stand in the foreground, including clergymen, and discuss the election. In the background, a line of men enter a building to vote., Title from item., Date from Evans., "About 150 lines of blank verse [in four columns] engraved on copper, with a picture of the election at the top."--Hildeburn., First line: Long with a Cruel, and perfidious Hand:, Manscript note by DuSimitiere: Published after the election of the members for the county and city of Philadelphia for the first of 8be 1765., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Dawkins, Henry, d. 1786?
Date: [1765]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT political cartoons [1765] Ele [959.F.88 (DuSimitiere)]

Title: John Smith Papers, 1802-1819
Description: The collection contains correspondence and documents covering the government and military careers of John Smith; they primarily related to his career as the United States marshal for the district of Pennsylvania during the War of 1812., John Smith was appointed United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by Thomas Jefferson on March 28, 1801, replacing John Hall. He was reappointed by James Monroe on November 27, 1818, for a four-year term, but in January 1819 he was removed from office and replaced by Samuel D. Ingram. Smith was listed in the Philadelphia city directories as “late marshal” from 1819 to 1822, and was not listed thereafter. He married Elizabeth Turner on October 15, 1795, at St Michael and Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. No date of death is known. Smith also had a long military career, serving almost continuously from 1776 until 1814, when the 1st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Cavalry, which he commanded, was disbanded., United States Marshals were public servants appointed by the President; their primary function was to provide local support for the operation of federal courts. The post involved a wide range of duties including procuring witnesses, serving subpoenas and warrants, and paying the fees and expenses of court clerks, judges, federal attorneys, and jurors. Marshals advertised seized property and oversaw its sale. In addition, until 1870, marshals conducted the federal census, and collected a variety of statistical information on behalf of the federal government., In time of war, such as the War of 1812, the marshal's duties expanded to include keeping track of enemy aliens living in the U.S., issuing passports for their domestic travel, and guarding and providing for British prisoners of war.
Creator: Smith, John, marshal
Date: 1793
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 026

Title: Soldiers read! Letter from Gen. McClellan Orange, N.J., October 12th, 1863. Hon. Chas. J. Biddle, Dear Sir:--My attention has been called to an article in the Philadelphia press, asserting that I had written to the managers of a Democratic meeting of Allentown, disapproving the objects of the meeting, and that if I voted and spoke, it would be in favor of Governor Curtin. ... I desire to state clearly and distinctly that, having some few days ago had a full conversation with Judge Woodward, I find that our views agree, and I regard his election as governor of Pennsylvania, call for by the interests of the nation
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 McClellan 5793.F.68a (McAllister)

Title: Union mass meeting! Hon. Leonard Myers, member of Congress elect, will address the citizens at Yohe's Eagle Hotel, in Bethlehem, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 6th, at half-past seven o'clock. J.B. Stoll Esq. of Philadelphia willl [sic] speak in the German language. Come, friends of liberty and the Union, and hear the plain truth plainly spoken. Dienstag Abends d. 6ten Oct. um halb acht uhr, wird J.B. Stoll Esq. von Philadelphia in Yohe's Wirths-Haus eine Rede in Deutscher Sprache au die Bürger von Bethlehem halten
Description: Oct. 6 fell on a Tuesday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Union (6)5777.F.96c (McAllister)

Title: Friends of the Union rally! Rally! Hon. W.W. Ketcham of Wilkes-Barre, and other distinguished speakers, will address the citizens of Bethlehem at Citizens' Hall, on Monday evening Oct. 5th, at half-past seven o'clock. Turn out in your strength! Friends of the Union, the Constitution, and liberty, to hear eloquently discussed the issues involved in the present canvass for governor. Bethlehem, Oct. 3, 1863
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Friends (6)5777.F.98b (McAllister)

Title: The Road to peace through Pennsylvania via Washington, as engineered by Southern Rebels and their Democratic allies From the Richmond enquirer, (Jeff. Davis' organ,) Sept. 7, 1860 [sic]. The road to peace. ... Men of Pennsylvania! Are you prepared for peace on such terms? If not, proclaim to the Southern Rebels, by the ballot-box, at the next election, that the Pennsylvania road to peace, is through submission to the Constitution, and in the Union
Description: An appeal to the voters of Pennsylvania not to make a Democratic peace., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Road (6)5777.F.21c (McAllister)

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