The Weidner family of Lancaster & Berks Counties, Pa. and the Weiss (Weiss, Wise) families of Berks & Northampton Counties, Pa. and Warren Co., N.J. : being an account of Georg Weidner, Johannes & Catharina Weidner, Christopher & Christina Weiss, Philip & Anna Maria (Weidner) Weiss, & Samuel & Susanna (Keller) Wise
Transcription of a manuscript in LancasterHistory Archives.
Biography of Judge Hayes precedes diary.
Alexander Hayes was born in 1793. He graduated, with honors, from Dickinson College in 1812 and became Judge of Lancaster County Courts from 1854 to 1875. He was a Trustee and Vice President of Franklin and Marshall College. He died in 1875
American Association for State and Local History book series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The past as context -- Creating a place -- The power of place -- Sharing the story -- Making connections -- Contemplating change -- The call of wildness -- Sustaining the future -- Touring a culture -- A wonderful place -- Under construction.
The complete Soundex guide : discovering the rules used by the Census Bureau and the Immigration and Naturalization Service when these organizations indexed federal records
From Lancaster to the moon : recounting the 1960's and 1970's in Lancaster, Pennsylvania through the pages of Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era, Sunday News
"Ten years have passed since the Great Awakening swept like a holy fire from Massachusetts to Georgia, touching the souls of colonists as well as many Native Americans. Follow Christopher "Longshot" Long, Caleb Hobomucko, and Conestoga Joe as they journey from New England to the Ohio in the mid-1750s. The characters are real people whose stories were first told in journals, diaries, books, and the town records of New England colonists. Author mark Ammerman paints a rich and contrasting portrait of men seeking to understand their new relationships with God, with each other, and with cultures determined to clash.Historical notes and a glossary enrich the reading experience!" [from Google Books]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
The Scots who had moved to Ulster in Ireland suffered under economic and religious pressures, and many chose to emigrate to the American colonies in the years before the war for independence. In the colonies, they then faced economic, religious and cultural challenges as they adapted to the new land.
Contents
Chapters: 1 The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution / 2. Crisis and community in Ulster / 3. Ulster Presbyterian migration 1718 - 1729 / 4. Settlement and adaptation in a new world / 5. Responding to a changing frontier / 6.Surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world
Summary
"Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People With No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people -whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as 'a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish'- drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultrual change...The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and the place of the frontier in a larger empire." [book cover]
