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Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Call Number: 974.802 M568

Alternate Title: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

Responsibility: James H. Merrell.

ISBN: 0393046761

Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Norton,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Physical Description: 463 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Notes: "1st pub. as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-438) and index.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.; Pioneers - Pennsylvania; Negotiation - Pennsylvania; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 M568

The provincial councillors of Pennsylvania : who held office between 1733-1776 and those earlier councillors who were some time chief magistrates of the province, and their descendants

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Author: Keith, Charles Penrose,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 974.802 K28

Alternate Title: Provincial councillors of Pennsylvania 1733-1776

Responsibility: by Charles P. Keith.

ISBN: 0806315296

Author: Keith, Charles Penrose,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: xi, [3], 140, [3], 476 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; Includes genealogies.; Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : [s.n.], 1883.; "Corrigenda and addenda"--p. [ix]-xi.; William Markham--Thomas Lloyd--Edward Shippen--James Logan--Isaac Norris--Samuel Preston--Andrew Hamilton--James Hamilton--Andrew Allen--Henry Brooke--Thomas Graeme--Clement Plumsted--Thomas Griffitts--Charles Read--William Till--Robert Strettel--Samuel Hasell--Abraham Taylor--Joseph Turner--Lawrence Growdon--Richard Peters--Benjamin Shoemaker--Thomas Hopkinson--Ralph Assheton--John Penn--Lynford Lardner--Benjamin Chew--John Mifflin--Thomas Cadwalader--James Tilghman--John Moland--Richard Penn--Thomas Lawrence--Edward Shippen--William Hicks.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. - Provincial Council.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Biography.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 K28

The Great Wagon Road : from Philadelphia to the South- How Scotch-Irish and Germanics settled the Uplands

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Author: Rouse, Parke,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Responsibility: by Parke Rouse, Jr.

Author: Rouse, Parke,

Place of Publication: [Richmond, Va.]

Publisher: Dietz Press,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: x, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1973.; Reprinted 2001.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.; "The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry". Although a wide variety of settlers traveled southward on the road, two dominant cultures emerged. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish American immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of unendurable conditions in Europe... Beginning at the port of Philadelphia, where many immigrants entered the colonies, the Great Wagon Road passed through the towns of Lancaster and York in southeastern Pennsylvania. Turning southwest, the road crossed the Potomac River and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. It continued south in the valley via the Great Warriors' Trail (also called the Indian Road), which was established by centuries of Indian travel over ancient trails created by migrating buffalo herds. The Shenandoah portion of the road is also known as the Valley Pike. The Treaty of Lancaster in 1744 had established colonists' rights to settle along the Indian Road. Although traffic on the road increased dramatically after 1744, it was reduced to a trickle during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) from 1756 to 1763. But after the war ended, it was said to be the most heavily traveled main road in America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon Road was also called the Carolina Road. At Roanoke, a road forked southwest, leading into the upper New River Valley and on to the Holston River in the upper Tennessee Valley. From there, the Wilderness Road led into Kentucky, ending at the Ohio River where flatboats were available for further travel into the Midwest and even to New Orleans. From Big Lick/Roanoke, after 1748, the Great Wagon Road passed through the Maggoty Gap (also called Maggodee) to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Continuing south through the Piedmont region, it passed through the present-day North Carolina towns of Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte and sites of earlier Indian settlements on the historic Indian Trading Path. The Great Wagon Road ultimately reached Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River, a distance of more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from Philadelphia." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: pt. 1. The Appalachian warriors' path. The search for Eldorado -- War among the Iroquois -- pt. 2. The Philadelphia wagon road. Germans in Pennsylvania -- Enter the Scotch-Irish -- A Moravian journey to Carolina -- Along the way South -- Presbyterians in a new land -- Mapping the great mountains -- Bethabara and New Salem -- The threat from the French -- Life in the Appalachians -- pt. 3. The wilderness trail. The wagon road turns West -- The saga of Castle's Woods -- Apostle of the frontier -- pt. 4. A frontier in danger. Andrew Jackson of the Waxhaws -- The exodus of the Quakers -- "The Old Wagoner" against the king -- Conestoga's gift -- Hospitality, North and South -- The spirit of Luther -- In the cabins along the road -- Tuckahoe versus Cohee -- pt. 5. Division and reunion. Stagecoaches and turnpikes -- Great days of the horse -- The Cherokees go West -- The day Doctor Junkin drove North -- Hot heads and cold bodies -- A road is reunited.

Subjects: Great Wagon Road.; Migration, Internal.; Roads; Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.; Trails - Southern States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Colonial Philadelphians

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Author: Roach, Hannah Benner.

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 929.374811 R628

Responsibility: Hannah Benner Roach.

ISBN: 1887099085

Author: Roach, Hannah Benner.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: xiii, 216 p. : map ; 26 cm.

Series: The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania monograph series ;

Notes: Articles originally appearing in the Pennsylvania genealogical magazine.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.374811 R628

The adventures of Andrew Byerly, American frontiersman ranger & courier

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Author: Freeble, Charles R.,

Edition: 1st. ed.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Call Number: 923.9 B993

Responsibility: By Charles R. Freeble, Jr.

ISBN: 0934616477

Author: Freeble, Charles R.,

Edition: 1st. ed.

Place of Publication: St. Petersburg, FL

Publisher: The Valkyrie publishing house,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: 80 p. illus. 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliography: p. 71.

Subjects: Byerly, Andrew, - 1715-1781.; Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, - ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.9 B993

The Robert Barber, Jr. house : a relic of Quaker hegemony

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Author: Shirk, Willis L.

Date of Publication: 1994.

farmers. As families grew while family land holdings remained fixed there were simply few other alternatives to ensure sufficient land for succeeding generations to remain in farming. The first detailed tax assessment records surviving from the period after the new brick house was built are those of 1769

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Responsibility: by Willis L. Shirk, Jr.

Author: Shirk, Willis L.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: [79]-98 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 96, no. 3

Subjects: Barber family.; Barber, Robert.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania; Architecture, Georgian - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 96, number 3 (1994), p. 79-98Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.96

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The peopling and depeopling of early Pa. Indians and colonists, 1680-1720

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Author: Sugrue, Thomas J.

Date of Publication: 1992

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.116

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Author: Sugrue, Thomas J.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Hist. Soc. of Pa.

Date of Publication: 1992

Physical Description: p.3-33

Notes: In: Pa. Magazine of History and Biography, v.116 (January 1992)

Subjects: Indians - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.116

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Explorations in early American culture

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Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: 973.2 E96

Responsibility: editors, William Pencak, George W. Boudreau.

Place of Publication: [University Park, PA]

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical Association for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: "A special supplemental issue of Pennsylvania history, volume 65."; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: United States - Civilization.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - 1783-1865.

Additional Author: Pencak, William,; Boudreau, George W.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical Association.; McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Additional Title: Pennsylvania history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 E96

Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

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Author: Nash, Gary B.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 326 N249

Responsibility: Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund.

ISBN: 0195045831 (alk. paper)

Author: Nash, Gary B.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: xvi, 249 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-236) and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

Subjects: Slaves - Pennsylvania.; Slavery - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.; Slavery - Abolition - History; Pennsylvania

Additional Author: Soderlund, Jean R.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 N249

Rum punch & revolution : taverngoing & public life in eighteenth century Philadelphia

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Author: Thompson, Peter,

Date of Publication: c1999.

Call Number: 974.811 T475

Alternate Title: Rum punch and revolution

Responsibility: Peter Thompson.

ISBN: 0812234596 (acidfree paper); 9780812234596 (acid-free paper); 0812216644 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780812216646 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Author: Thompson, Peter,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication: c1999.

Physical Description: 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Early American studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

Contents: Chapters: 1. "For Strangers and Workmen": The Origins and development of Phiadelphia's tavern trade / 2. "Contrived For Entertainment": Running a tavern in colonial Philadelphia / 3. "Company Divided Into Communities": Tavern going in Colonial Philadelphia / 4. "Of Great Presumption": Public houses, Public culture, and the political life of colonial Philadelphia / 5."Council's of State": Philadelphia's taverns and the American Revolution

Summary: In Rum Punch and Revolution, Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings and conflicts which were generated among the city's drinkers and investigates the profitability of running a tavern in a city which, until independence, set maximum prices on the cost of drinks and services in its public houses.Taverngoing, Thompson writes, fostered a sense of citizenship that influenced political debate in colonial Philadelphia and became an issue in the city's revolution. Opinionated and profoundly undeferential, taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation. [from the publisher]

Subjects: Taverns (Inns) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Political culture - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Social aspects.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 T475

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