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The annotated James McCullogh's book: Pages with transcription and commentary

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Author
McCullogh, James
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
975.45 S798a
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edited by John Stauffer.
Author
McCullogh, James
Place of Publication
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania
Publisher
The Conococheague Institute,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
256 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
This is the diary of James McCullogh, a Scot-Irish immigrant farmer who settled on the Pennsylvania frontier in the mid-1700s...In its 116 pages, he jots notations from his daily life, from planting to business accounts to the secret places where he hid his tools during bloody Indian raids. The book records life-altering events such as the loss of his brother John and the kidnapping of his two small sons -the younger of which he never saw again- at the hands of Indians. He includes Bible verses and writes some entries in code, somewhat curiously, since he also provides the key. [book jacket]
In this annotated volume, there are facsimiles of the diary's pages, along with a transcription for clarity...and useful commentary providing context and background.
Subjects
McCullogh, James, - approximately 1740-1781 - Diaries.
McCullogh, James, - approximately 1740-1781 - Family.
Franklin County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763 - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Stauffer, John,
Bricker, Calvin.
Additional Corporate Author
Conococheague Institute (Mercersburg, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975.45 S798a
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Frontier country : the politics of war in early Pennsylvania

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Author
Spero, Patrick,
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016.
Call Number
974.802 S749
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Patrick Spero.
ISBN
0812248619
9780812248616
Author
Spero, Patrick,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, PA
Publisher
University Of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
[2016]
©2016.
Physical Description
viii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series
Early American Studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Early American frontiers -- Chapter 1. The hidden flaw -- Chapter 2. Growth arrives -- Chapter 3. The first frontier crisis -- Chapter 4. Pennsylvania's apogee -- Chapter 5. Becoming a frontier community -- Chapter 6. Frontier politics -- Chapter 7. The permanent frontier -- Chapter 8. The British Empire's frontier crisis -- Chapter 9. Independent frontier -- Chapter 10. Creating a frontier government -- Conclusion. Frontiers in a new nation -- Coda. frontiers: meanings, controversies and new evidence.
Summary
In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as a vulnerable, militarized boundary. The Pennsylvania frontier, Spero argues, was constituted through conflicts not only between colonists and Native Americans but also among neighboring British colonies. These violent encounters created what Spero describes as a distinctive "frontier society" on the eve of the American Revolution that transformed the once-peaceful colony of Pennsylvania into a "frontier country." Spero narrates Pennsylvania's story through a sequence of formative but until now largely overlooked confrontations: an eight-year-long border war between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1730s; the Seven Years' War and conflicts with Native Americans in the 1750s; a series of frontier rebellions in the 1760s that rocked the colony and its governing elite; and wars Pennsylvania fought with Virginia and Connecticut in the 1770s over its western and northern borders. Deploying innovative data-mining and GIS-mapping techniques to produce a series of customized maps, he illustrates the growth and shifting locations of frontiers over time. Synthesizing the tensions between high and low politics and between eastern and western regions in Pennsylvania before the Revolution, Spero recasts the importance of frontiers to the development of colonial America and the origins of American Independence.
Subjects
Cresap's War
Insurgency - Pennsylvania
Boundaries.
Insurgency.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
Pennsylvania - Boundaries - 18th century.
Maryland - Boundaries - 18th century.
Virginia - Boundaries - 18th century.
Connecticut - Boundaries - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 S749
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Old Lancaster

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Author
Robinson, Mary N.
Date of Publication
1900
Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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by Mrs. Mary N. Robinson.
Author
Robinson, Mary N.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1900
Physical Description
[97]-109 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 5/6
Summary
Assorted observations of events in 18th century Lancaster County.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 5/6 (1900), p. 97-109Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4
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Thomas Barton and Pa.'s colonial frontier

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Author
Russell, Marvin F.
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 46
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by Marvin F. Russell.
Author
Russell, Marvin F.
Physical Description
p. 313 - 334.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania History, v. 46, 1979.
Subjects
Barton, Thomas, - 1730-1780.
Rittenhouse, David, - 1732-1796.
St. James Protestant Episcopal Church (Lancaster City, Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 46
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Lancaster County in province, state, and nation : a bi-centennial review

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1929
, calls this the critical period of American history ; and wrongly the schools give it very little attention. The service of Lancaster County in the French and Indian War, was indispensable. Our county was engaged in all of the classes of war services of that conflict. We furnished a major amount of the
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by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1929
Physical Description
21-43 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 33, no. 3
Subjects
Agriculture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 33, number 3 (1929), p. 21-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.33
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The Black Boys uprising of 1765 : traders, troops, & "rioters" during Pontiac's War

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Author
Guzy, Dan,
Date of Publication
[2014]
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Dan Guzy.
ISBN
9780990711612
0990711617
Author
Guzy, Dan,
Place of Publication
Mercersburg, PA
Publisher
The Conococheague Institute,
Date of Publication
[2014]
Physical Description
xiii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-131) and index.
Subjects
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765.
Indians of North America
Black Boys Rebellion
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. - French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Conococheague Creek (Pa.)
History.
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A final word as to Regina, the German captive

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Author
Heilman, Samuel P. ,
Date of Publication
1905.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 3, no. 8
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by S. P. Heilman.
Author
Heilman, Samuel P. ,
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Lebanon County Historical Society ,
Date of Publication
1905.
Physical Description
p. 202 - 251 : 19 cm.
Notes
In: Lebanon County Historical Society papers , vol. III, no. 8.
Subjects
Hartman, Regina.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755 - 1763 - Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755 - 1763 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 3, no. 8
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015847;view=1up;seq=217
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The journal of Johann Michael Lindenmuth (1737-1812)

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Author
Lindenmuth, Johann Michael,
Date of Publication
c2000.
Call Number
973.2 L744
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transcribed and translated by Brigitte Burkett ; foreword by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach.
ISBN
0897254058 (alk. paper)
Author
Lindenmuth, Johann Michael,
Place of Publication
Rockport, Me
Publisher
Picton Press,
Date of Publication
c2000.
Physical Description
128 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
"Johann Michael Lindenmuth has left us one of the better day-to-day journals of the French & Indian War as well as a brief journal of his service in the Revolutionary War...When Lindenmuth was discharged in December 1759, he had fought through a multitude of the battles, skirmishes, and ambushes in western Pennsylvania. In a laconic, direct, and simple style he tells of what happened, who did it, and why. Amid the tales of scalping, looting, murder, mayhem, and of boredom, fatigue, huger, and desparir, Lindemuth also tells us of his family and friends, his ancestors, and his children and grandchildren." [from the back cover]
Subjects
Lindenmuth, Johann Michael, - 1737-1812
Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Diaries.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Diaries.
Farmers - Pennsylvania - Diaries.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1776-1783 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Burkett, Brigitte.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.2 L744
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Did Pennsylvania have a middle ground? Examining Indian-White Relations on the eighteenth-century Pennsylvania frontier

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Author
Barr, Daniel P.
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by Daniel P. Barr.
Author
Barr, Daniel P.
Physical Description
p. 337-363.
Notes
"A Review Essay."
Subjects
White, Richard.
Merrell, James.
Ward, Matthew.
Merritt, Jane T.
Griffin, Patrick.
Silver, Peter.
Kenny, Kevin.
Camenzind, Krista.
Preston, David.
Moyer, Paul.
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Paxton Boys.
Indians of North America
North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America - Civilization - Indian influences.
North American Indians - Relations with white persons, to 1775
Contained In
v. 136, no. 4, October 2012.Lancaster History Library - Book905.748 HSP v. 136, no. 4
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Forts on the Pennsylvania frontier, 1753-1758

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Author
Hunter, William A.
Date of Publication
1960.
Call Number
974.80324 H947
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Author
Hunter, William A.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1960.
Physical Description
xi, 596 p. illus., maps, plans. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 565-572.
Contents
Chapters: Frontier Background // The French Invasion and British Resistance // Virginia Forts // French Forts // First Pennsylvania Forts // Pennsylvania Troops // Provincial Forts in Northampton County // Provincial Forts in Berks and Lancaster Counties // Provincial Forts in Cumberland County // Fort Augusta and It's Dependencies // The British Take Over // Appendix: The Private Forts
Summary
"This book is not only about the Pa. frontier forts, but also about all the forts occupying Pa.'s soil; the French invasion and their forts and claims to Pa.; Virginia and the Ohio Company and the 3 forts they erected on Pa.'s soil; the British takeover of fort building and frontier protection of Pa.; as well as background on the Indians and their place in the regional history of the 1750s." [from the publisher]
Subjects
Fortifications - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80324 H947
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