This booklet was issued on the occasion of the dedication of a memorial plaque at his birthplace near Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvana, on September 26, 1964. Sponsors: Chester County Historical Society; Penn State Alumni Club of Chester county; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; The Pennsylvania State University.
Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.