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The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier

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Author
Kanefield, Teri,
Date of Publication
2015.
Call Number
920.72 K16
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Responsibility
by Teri Kanefield.
ISBN
9781419718663
1419718665
Author
Kanefield, Teri,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
Date of Publication
2015.
Physical Description
pages cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Suzy comes to America -- At home in the land of brotherly love -- Shaking off the yoke -- A new home on the frontier -- A little romance -- Political adviser, lawyer, activist, and advocate for the Indians -- Businesswoman and scientific author -- The American Revolution -- Celebrated poet -- Last years and legacy -- Afterword: from Wright's Ferry to Columbia.
Summary
Introduces Suzy Wright, a Quaker who helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier, defended the rights of Native Americans, and provided legal counsel to her neighbors.
Subjects
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Women - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Poets - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Clerks of court - Pennsylvania - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Juvenile literature.
Quakers.
Poets.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Women - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Poets - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Biography.
Clerks of court - Pennsylvania - Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Women.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.
Columbia (Pa.) - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Columbia (Pa.) - Biography.
Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.72 K16
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A country seat on the Susquehanna : Wright's Ferry Mansion

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Author
Schaeffer, Elizabeth M.
Call Number
708 O44 1983
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Author
Schaeffer, Elizabeth M.
Physical Description
32-37 p.
Notes
In: The Old Lancaster Antiques Show, (November 17-20, 1983)
Summary
"On the eastern bank of the Susquehanna River in southeastern Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Lancaster, Wright’s Ferry Mansion was built in 1738 for a remarkable English Quaker, Susanna Wright. In 1726, when Susanna was twenty-nine, she purchased one hundred acres in this region on the fringes of Pennsylvania wilderness, then inhabited by a small tribe of Indians and known as Shawanahtown-on-Susquehanna.Bright, unmarried, possibly using money from her dowry for the purchase of the land, this dynamic eighteenth-century lady was aware of the needs and potentials – not only political, agricultural and commercial, but also spiritual and intellectual – for the development of this area."
Subjects
Wright family.
Wright, Susanna
Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
708 O44 1983
Websites
https://paheritage.wpengine.com/article/country-seat-susquehanna-wrights-ferry-mansion/
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Wright's Ferry Mansion at Columbia, Pennsylvania

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Author
Snyder, John J.
Call Number
708 O44 1978
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Author
Snyder, John J.
Physical Description
38-45 p.
Notes
In: The Old Lancaster Antiques Show, 1978.
Subjects
Wright family.
Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
708 O44 1978
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[Map of Columbia, 1728, 1788, 1864, 1968] / by H.L. Feather

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Author
Feather, Howard L.
Call Number
974.815 COLU 104
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Author
Feather, Howard L.
Physical Description
1 map : photocopy ; 24 x 41 cm.
Notes
Title supplied.
Photocopy, possibly reduced from original size.
Scale of original map 1 in. = 500 ft.
Subjects
Barber, Robert A.
Blunston, Samuel, - 1689-1745.
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784.
Wright, John, - 1667-1749.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Maps.
Real property - Pennsylvania - Columbia - Maps.
Columbia (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 COLU 104
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Gulielma, Susannah and two Sarahs

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Author
Brubaker, Marian.
Call Number
708 O44 1981
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Author
Brubaker, Marian.
Physical Description
61-65 p.
Notes
In: The Old Lancaster Antiques Show 1981.
Subjects
Penn, Gulielma.
Wright, Susannah.
Yeates, Sarah Burd.
Rorer, Sarah Tyson.
Cookery.
Decorative arts.
Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
708 O44 1981
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Bellmont Mansion: an exercise in archival excavation

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Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Date of Publication
2000.
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by Willis L. Shirk, Jr.
Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society ,
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
4-23 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.101, no. 3.
Subjects
Blunston, Samuel , - 2689-1745.
Wright, Susanna , - 1697-1784.
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 101, number 3 (2000), p. 4-23Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.101, no.3
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Mark Bird, 1739-1812, Hopewell Furnace, Berks County, Pennsylvania : ironmaster & patriot

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Author
Graham Daniel A.
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016
Call Number
974.816 g738
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Alternate Title
Mark Bird, ironmaster & patriot
Responsibility
by Daniel A. Graham.
ISBN
9781601265029
1601265026
Author
Graham Daniel A.
Place of Publication
Elverson, Pennsylvania
Morgantown, PA
Publisher
Friends of Hopewell Furnace,
Masthof Press.
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016
Physical Description
xiv, 92 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-91).
Contents
Early years and background: Morlatton and Birdsborough, 1739-1761 -- Birdsborough Forges, 1762-1770: ironmaster -- Pre-Revolution, 1770-1774: Birdsborough Forges and Hopewell Furnace ironmaster -- Revolutionary years, 1774-1782: political and military/Colonel Mark Bird -- Revolutionary War years, 1774-1782: Industrial/Hopewell Furnace -- Financial ruin, 1782-1788: Delaware Mills/Works, Bucks County -- Exile and death, 1788-1812: Western North Carolina -- Children of Mark and Mary (Ross) Bird -- Photos.
Summary
This work captures the American Revolutionary spirit of Hopewell Furnace's first ironmaster and founder who served as George Washington's quartermaster and provided needed supplies to Washington while he encamped at Valley Forge during the harsh winter of 1777. The book not only contains the complete Bird biography, but also illustrations of Revolutionary war cannon making, original Mark Bird correspondence, a complete bibliography of sources, and photos of Mark Bird's ironmaking pieces and other relevant historic locales. [from the publisher]
Subjects
Bird, Mark, - 1739-1812.
Byrd family.
Iron-works - Pennsylvania - Berks County
Iron and steel workers - Pennsylvania - Berks County - Biography.
Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Berks County
Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Berks County (Pa.) - Biography.
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 g738
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Wright's Ferry a glimpse into the Susquehanna Backcountry

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Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 120
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Responsibility
Willis L. Shirk, Jr.
Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Physical Description
p. 61-87
Notes
In: Pa. Magazine of History and Biography (Jan./Apr. 1996, vol., cxx, no. 1/2)
Summary
"The history of the earliest years of settlement at Wright's Ferry, and the subsequent founding of the town of Columbia, provides fascinating insights for understanding the evolution of other Pennsylvania backcountry communities during the colonial and early national periods. Located seventy miles west of Philadelphia, on the eastern shore of the Susquehanna River, Wright's Ferry was one among dozens of backcountiy communities that emerged during the second quarter of the eighteenth century. This narrative account will illuminate the complex political, ethnic, and social currents that emerged at Wright's Feny as William Penn's secretary, James Logan, moved to ensure the orderlysettlement of Pennsylvania's backcountiy." [from the text]
Subjects
Wright's Ferry (Columbia, Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 120
Websites
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/45057/44778
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Lancaster landmarks coloring book

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Author
Kershner, Gerry.
Date of Publication
c2006.
Call Number
917.815 K41g
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Responsibility
by Gerry Kershner.
Author
Kershner, Gerry.
Place of Publication
Morgantown PA
Publisher
Masthof Press,
Date of Publication
c2006.
Physical Description
unpaged : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Title from cover.
Includes directions to historic sites.
Subjects
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc. - Study and teaching.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc. - Pictorial works.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
917.815 K41g
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Rival ferries over the Susquehanna in 1787--Wright's and Anderson's

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Author
Prowell, George Reeser,
Date of Publication
1923
Author: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928. Title: Rival ferries over the Susquehanna in 1787--Wright's and Anderson's / by Geo. R. Prowell, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ferries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Susquehanna River. Wright's Ferry (Columbia, Pa.)--History. Anderson's Ferry
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Responsibility
by Geo. R. Prowell, Esq.
Author
Prowell, George Reeser,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1923
Physical Description
143-144 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 8
Subjects
Ferries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Susquehanna River.
Wright's Ferry (Columbia, Pa.) - History.
Anderson's Ferry (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 8 (1923), p. 143-144Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27
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