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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

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Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Responsibility: edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.

ISBN: 0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.

Contents: Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - United States.; Acculturation - United States; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of - United States; Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.; Acculturation - United States - Congresses.; Indians of North America - Congresses.; United States - Territorial expansion.; United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.

Additional Author: Cayton, Andrew R. L.; Teute, Fredrika J.

Additional Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.221 C759

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

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

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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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

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

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Author: Shirk, Willis L.

Date of Publication: 1994.

as Pontiac's War. The attacks on frontier settlements began near Fort Pitt and spread rapidly until finally put down in 1765 by General Bouquet in the area now encompassed by the state of Ohio. This period of temporary unrest touched the local settlement in a most tragic way. Several local Indians

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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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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

The Ohio frontier : Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830

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Author: Hurt, R. Douglas.

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 977.1 H967

Responsibility: by R. Douglas Hurt.

ISBN: 0253332109 (alk. paper)

Author: Hurt, R. Douglas.

Place of Publication: Bloomington

Publisher: Indiana University Press,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: xv, 418 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series: A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.

Contents: Chapters : The First Settlers / Clash of Cultures / Revolution in The Ohio Country / The Road to HellFallen Timbers / Ohio Fever / Early Settlements / Farm Country / The Frontier People / The Religious Frontier / Confederacy and War / Farmers: First and Last / Settled Community

Summary: "R. Douglas Hurt's book on the frontier period ...begins in the late 1500's with conflict between the Iroquois confederation and the Erie Indians. Shawnees, Wyandots, and other Native American groups complicated the picture, and the arrival of the French in the mid-1600s produced an extremely complex mix of accomodation, conflict, warfare, and mutual economic advantage. Still more players - the British by 1750 and the newly independent Americans after 1775 - muddied matters even further. Hurt introduces us to the great Indian diplomat Pontiac, who led a nearly successful defense against British aggression in 1764; to the Indian killer Jeffrey Amherst; to Daniel Boone and the American soldiers George Rogers Clark and "Mad" Anthony Wayne; to dozens of speculators and settlers who swooped down upon Ohio from the 1780's on, people such as Ebenezer Zane of Zane's Trace and Zanesville; to Shakers and Quakers; to Tecumseh's resistance of 1811; and finally to fugitive African American slaves and immigrant canal-builders."

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio.; Ohio - History - To 1787.; Ohio - History - 1787-1865.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 977.1 H967

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

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