1839 Pennsylvania Government Correspondence Charles Penrose Buckshot War riots

1839 Pennsylvania Government Correspondence   Charles Penrose Buckshot War riots

A rare bound volume uniting four mid-19th-century political and religious pamphlets, each printed during or shortly after Pennsylvania’s volatile 1838–1839 legislative session. A collection of government correspondences and addresses concerning the counties and citizens of Pennsylvania in 1838. Collected by James Snowden, this work is notable for containing numerous addresses by Charles B Penrose, member of the Whig party in the Pennsylvania senate.

Notably, this book contains descriptions of the Buckshot War riots.

Item number: #28591

Price: $499

SNOWDEN, James Ross

Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the disturbances at the seat of government, in December, 1838

Harrisburg: Boas & Coplan, 1839.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 works in 1 tome
  • “Report… Disturbances” – 163, [1]
    • Includes 5 folding charts
  • “Report… Armed Force” – 247, [1]
    • Harrisburg: E. Guyer, 1839
  • “Address of Charles B Penrose” – 207, [1]
    • Harrisburg: Guyer, 1839
    • First 44 pages oddly repeated at the end of this tome
  • “Catechetical Instruction” – 12
    • Philadelphia: Presbyterian Tract and Sunday School Society, 1835
  • Provenance: Handwritten
    • Andrew Hopkins, 1879
    • Alfred Creigh, 1839
    • Colonel Thomas B. McElwee, Bedford
      • Possibly Thomas Baird McElwee (1792-1843), a lawyer and statesman elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1833. He also served in the 12^th Division, 1^st Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia (1832-1833).
    • Language: English
    • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
    • Size: ~8in X 5.25in (20.5cm x 13cm)

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