The Life of Conrad Weiser As it Relates to His Services as Official Interpreter Between New York and Pennsylvania and as Envoy Between Philadelphia and the Onondaga Councils by Rev. Wm. M. Beauchamp - 1925

Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade paperback. Facsimile reprint of the original. 307 pp. A list of over 600 soldiers that served in the Revolutionary War and who were residents of or died in Onondaga County, New York. This was drawn from a pension list compiled in 1895, as well as visits to over 175 cemeteries, comparisons with family histories and rolls and others sources. With a short list of possible veterans. Entries contain transcriptions of gravestones, and additional biographical information when known. VERY GOOD condition. Some curling along the fore edge. Spine faded. Light scuffing and a hint of soiling.

Heritage Books, Inc.. New. The Moravians were a Pietist religious sect that was introduced to North America with the influx of Germanic immigrants in the early eighteenth century Acting upon their belief in the importance of living out the teachings of Christianity, the Moravians became involved in various missionary enterprises, primarily concerning the Native Americans of the middle and northern states This volume reprints a number of journals kept by Moravian missionaries describing their experiences with the Onondaga Indians and other tribes of the Five Nations inhabiting Central New York “Practically the Moravians did no Missionary work in this part of New York They neither preached nor baptizedThe whole work was one of preparation, a study of the language and habits of life” Indeed, the presence of the Moravians was so quiet and unobtrusive as to be nearly forgotten by the Onondagas by 1849 Their journals, however, serve as a fascinating cultural study examining tribal social structure,… Read More

Onondaga Historical Association, 1916. Hardcover. Good. Black cloth boards are clean with only a few spots, binding is a little weak at front hinge but otherwise good, no marks or notations. Boards are lightly bumped at corners with some rubbing through at edges. HB HS

Port Washington, Long Island: Ira J. Friedman, Inc, 1969. Octavo, not illustrated, pp 113, (6), cream cloth, an exceptionally clean bright copy throughout. With the bookplate of the botanists Victoria and Brinsley Burbidge (= Vicki Matthews]. [Born in Großenhain, Saxony, under the name Friedrich Traugott Pursh, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, and emigrated to the United States in 1799. From 1802 to 1805, he worked in Philadelphia as the botanical manager of the extensive gardens of William Hamilton, Esq., "The Woodlands." By 1805, he was working for Benjamin Smith Barton on a new flora of North America, under whom he studied the plants collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. His work with Barton allowed him to travel farther afield. In 1805, he traveled south from Maryland to the Carolinas and, in 1806, he traveled north from the mountains of Pennsylvania to New Hampshire. He made both trips principally on foot, with only his dog and a gun, covering over three… Read More

Onondaga Historical Association The McDonnell Co., 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. 307 page with index hardcover bound in black pebbled boards with gold gilt titles on spine, well preserved inner hinges, shading on title page due to laid in related ephemera, Narragansett Library Association signed donation notice of this book dated 1913 laid-in