"The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]
Summary
Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.
The awakening and the early progress of the Pequea, Conestoga and other Susquehanna Valley settlements : as shown by official letters, etc., of the time
comp. by John C. French, John H. Chatham, Mahlon J. Colcord, Albert D. Karstetter and others; ed. by J. Herbert Walker ... with a foreword by Henry W. Shoemaker.
2 p. l., [3]-122 p. : front., ill., plates, ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Includes local and biographical material.
Summary
This book, written in the beginning of the 20th century, looks back to earlier days when timber in Pennsylvania was cut without thought of preserving forests for the future. It tells stories about those heydays and sees hope in the introduction of conservation methods.
by Henry Woodman, with a biography of the author and the author's father who was a soldier with Washington at Valley Forge during the winters of 1777 and 1778. Authorized by the Woodman family.
The Pennsylvania state college. Studies in history and political science, no. 1
Pennsylvania state college. College series, no. 1
Notes
"List of books consulted": p. 341-345.
Summary
"The author has tried to show that an interesting and important part of the history of Pennsylvania has been indelibly written in the names of its counties, cities, towns and townships...He has made every effort to learn all the essential facts about a particular name, and to secure information from the most reliable and authentic sources." [from the preface] /// Chapters include places named for English Shires, English noblemen, French , Presidents, Soldiers, Women, Indians , Industries, and Geographical Features , Etc.
The genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families, seekers of religious liberty who fled from Silesia to Saxony and thence to Pennsylvania in the years 1731-1737
Printed for the Board of publication of the Schwenkfelder church, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania [by] Rand McNally & company,
Date of Publication
1923.
Physical Description
xx, 1752 p. front., illus. (coat of arms) plates, ports., maps, facsims. 29 cm.
Notes
A revision of the Genealogical record of the descendants of the Schwenkfelders, by R. Kriebel.
The Genealogical Record of the Schwenkfelder Families: Seekers of Religious Liberty Who Fled From Silesia to Saxony and Thence to Pennsylvania in the Years 1731 to 1737 by Samuel Kriebel Brecht chronicles the genealogy of the followers of Caspar Schwenkfelder, German religious reformer. The book also includes photographs of people, places, and documents; historical sketches; church organization, maps, and other information
"First appeared as "The ringers of the Liberty bell". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XVIII (October, 1925), 658-67."
Andrew McNair, as the doorkeeper of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for 18 years, was the person who would ring the Liberty Bell during the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Priestley, a respected chemist and theologian, spent the last10 yrs of his life in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He fled England, because he was considered a subversive due to his liberal political and religious beliefs and for his support for the French Revolution.
Two hundredth anniversary, Tulpehocken settlement, 1723-1923.
Includes advertisements
Program of the 200th anniversary service of the Tulpehocken settlement and dedication of memorial pipe organ, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Womelsdorf, Pa., 1923, inserted.
Summary
Program of the 200th anniversary service of the Tulpehocken settlement and dedication of memorial pipe organ, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Womelsdorf, Pa., 1923, inserted.
