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The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
Volumes of personal journals taken by Henry Muhlenberg
Peter Muhlenberg
A Portrait of General Peter Muhlenberg
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
A portrait of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
The accounts of Catherine Muhlenberg, administrator to the State
Account of inventory of the Muhlenberg family under Catherine Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg's house
The owner of the Muhlenberg's house was Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Patriarch of the Lutheran church in America. Later owned by his son, Peter Muhlenberg.
William Bird, resident of Robeson Township's personal estate
The invintory and appraisment of William Bird, of Robeson Township.
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and…
“An Act for the Better Regulating of Negroes in this Province”
An act passed in 1725 which encouraged slave owner to make any capital felonies commited by their slaves known to the province in exchange for recompense.