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Farmersville Church Record Book
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0186
Abstract
Farmersville Church (currently known as St. John’s Farmersville Church, Easton, Pennsylvania) record book that contains information in several handwritings on weddings, baptisms, funerals for the year of 1877.
Dates:
1877
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Robert Stuart and Pacific Fur Company Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0184
Abstract
This manuscript is a handwritten copy of an original journal made by Robert Stuart, a junior partner of John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, during his overland trip from the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific Ocean via St. Louis on the Mississippi River to New York City where Astor had his office. The narrative in this manuscript describes the day to day struggle of discovery, and observations of terrain, flora, fauna, and native tribes encountered along the way.
Dates:
1812-1813
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections