Notebooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Lightfoot Survey Notebook
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0203
Abstract
This manuscript notebook includes survey data of a road to be built between Pottsville to Shamokin (then an Indian Territory) in 18th century. It also contains detailed information on surveyor’s measurements and coordinates; descriptions of the terrain, and insight into frontier Pennsylvania and the interaction between the English settlers, militias and the native people on the Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers of colonial Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1759-1860; 1759, 1770, 1850, 1860
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Colonial Iron Manufacture Ledger 1770-1773
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0312
Scope and Contents
The ledger book entries begin May 17, 1770 ending August 3, 1773, however, inside the front and back covers are the childish notations of Mary Bird (1753-1813), daughter of William Bird (1706-1761), builder of the Berkshire Furnace, indicating dates of January 7, 1767 and February 1767 among her efforts at practicing cursive handwriting. Mary Bird was the ninth child of William and Brigitte Huling (1710/5?-1790/92?) Bird. Mary married Colonel George Ross Jr. (b.?-d.1779) in 1773 in Christ...
Dates:
1767 - 1773; Majority of material found within 1770 - 1772
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections