Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. False dawn -- Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- pt. 2. Theatre of bloodshed and rapine -- Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- pt. 3. Zealots -- Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- pt. 4. A war of words -- The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- pt. 5. Unraveling -- Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries -- Appendix : Identifying the Conestoga Indians.
Summary
"William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans ... Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this ... history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace."--Jacket.
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Summary
HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729–86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a compliment— most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster County— - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]
Letters of Rev. Richard Locke and Rev. George Craig : missionaries in Pennsylvania of the "Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts", London, 1747-1752
with some new annals of the old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones, by Charles A. Hanna ... with eighty maps and illustrations.
2 v. fronts., plates, maps (part fold.) facsim. 25 cm.
Notes
"Of this work one thousand copies have been printed from type, and the type destroyed."
Contents
Chapters in volume 1: The debatable land // The Iroquoians of the Susquehanna // The Petticoat indians of Petticoat land // The Shawnees // The early traders of Conestoga, Donegal and Paxtang // The young red man goes west // The Shamokin traders and the Shamokin Path // Andrew Montour, the "Half Indian" // The Frankstown Path // The Raystown Path // The traders at Allegheny on the main path; with some annals of Kittanning and Chartier's Town // The Ohio Mingoes of the White River and the Wendats // Kuskuskies on the the Beaver // Logstown on the Ohio.
Chapters in volume 2: George Croghan , the king of the traders // The Ohio Valley before the white man came // The Lower Shanee town; or Chillicothe on the Ohio // The Chonchake Route and other Ohio paths // John Finley and Kentucky before Boone // Pickawillany Path // The Indian trade and Pennsylvania traders // The perils of the path.
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Series
Colonial people
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Quasheba's family -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slave families -- Marriage and children -- Helping one another -- The lives of slave children -- The education of slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Tradespeople -- Culture from Africa -- The cost of freedom.
Summary
Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; with an introduction respecting the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers, with the first rise of the neighbouring Colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is added a brief description of the said province, and the general state in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760-1770 ... With an appendix. Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780
