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The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20427
Author
Kanefield, Teri,
Date of Publication
2015.
Call Number
920.72 K16
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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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Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776

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Author
Spero, Patrick,
Date of Publication
2018.
Call Number
974.802 S749f
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Patrick Spero.
Author
Spero, Patrick,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
W W. Norton & Company,
Date of Publication
2018.
Physical Description
xvii [1], 268, [1]] pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Autographed by the author.
Includes author's note, notes, about the author and index.
"The Black Boys, also known as the Brave Fellows and the Loyal Volunteers, were members of a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion. The Black Boys, so-called because they sometimes blackened their faces during their actions, were upset with British policy regarding American Indians following Pontiac's War. When that war came to an end in 1765, the Pennsylvania government began to reopen trade with the Native Americans who had taken part in the uprising. Many settlers of the Conococheague Valley were outraged, having suffered greatly from Indian raids during the war. The 1764 Enoch Brown School Massacre, in which ten school children had been killed and scalped, was the most notorious example of these raids." [from Wikipedia]
Summary
"The American Revolution has traditionally been depicted as a struggle between North American settlers and British imperial forces, but this intensively researched study from Spero, the director of Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society Library, analyzes the crucial role of settler attitudes toward Native Americans in sparking the conflict. While administrators in London viewed Native people as important trading partners within their American empire, many white colonists saw them as a terrifying menace and 'wanted to be free of the Indians as much as they wanted to be free of their imperial overlords.' Spero tells of the little-studied Pennsylvania backcountry rebels called the Black Boys, who in 1765 revolted against Britain's willingness to accommodate Native interests. Readers who have been accustomed to considering the Revolutionary War as a conflict between American liberty and British oppression may find this account discomfiting, but Spero presents convincing support for his thesis that hatred of Indians and desire for their lands played a pivotal role in fomenting the revolution and 'produced the roadmap' for the next century of American history, delving deeply into previously underutilized sources, including the journals of fur trader George Croghan. Spero's thoughtful work is an important contribution to ongoing reassessments of the nature and meaning of the American founding." (from Publishers Weekly.com)
Subjects
Callendar, Robert.
Johnson, William, - Sir.
Insurgency - Pennsylvania
Croghan, George, - 1720?-1782
Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio River Valley
Black Boys Rebellion - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.
Illinois - Colonial peiod ca 1600-1775
Ohio - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North Americd
Indiana - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.
Gage, Thomas, - 1721-1787,
Pontiac's Conspiracy, - 1763-1765
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Frontier
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 S749f
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Early local historical items

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo941
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1913
, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17
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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
1913
Physical Description
123-137 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5
Subjects
American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 17, number 5 (1913), p. 123-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.17
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The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

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Author
Fiske, John,
Date of Publication
1903.
Call Number
973.22 F541
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by John Fiske. Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, contemporary views, prints, and other historic materials...
Author
Fiske, John,
Place of Publication
Boston and New York
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and company,
Date of Publication
1903.
Physical Description
2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part. double; incl. ports., maps, facsims.) 24 cm.
Notes
"Illustrated edition."
The facsimiles include reproductions of title-pages.
Subjects
Dutch - United States
Quakers - United States
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Middle Atlantic States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.22 F541
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Annals of Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware. 1609-1682

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Author
Hazard, Samuel,
Date of Publication
1850.
Call Number
974.80083 H428a
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Author
Hazard, Samuel,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hazard and Mitchell,
Date of Publication
1850.
Physical Description
vii, 664 p.
Series
Pennsylvania county and regional histories. Reel 4, no. 7
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Delaware - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80083 H428a
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Early local references

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4862
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1907
--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical
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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
1907
Physical Description
[281]-296 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 8
Subjects
Newspapers - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 11, number 8 (1907), p. 281-296Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.11
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The Germans in colonial times

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Author
Bittinger, Lucy Forney,
Call Number
325.243 B624
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Lucy F. Bittinger.
ISBN
0917890906
Author
Bittinger, Lucy Forney,
Place of Publication
Bowie (3602 Maureen Lone, Bowie, MD 20715)
Publisher
Heritage Books, 1986.
Physical Description
314 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1901.
Cover title.
Includes bibliography (p. 300-305) and index.
Subjects
Weiser, Conrad, - 1696-1760.
Moravian Church - History.
German Americans.
Germans - Pennsylvania
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Maryland - History.
Virginia - History.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
325.243 B624
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Massacre of the Conestogas : on the trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County

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Author
Brubaker, John H.
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
974.802 B886
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by Jack Brubaker.
ISBN
9781609490614
1609490614
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
188 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [177]-188.
Contents
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
Subjects
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Indians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Massacres - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Race relations - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 B886
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History and topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata and Clinton counties, Pa. : embracing local and general events, leading incidents, description of the principal boroughs, towns, villages, etc., etc. ; with a copious appendix: embellished by engravings

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1974
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
974.8009 R946
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compiled from authentic sources by I. D. Rupp.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Published by G. Hills,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
551 p., [9] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Names of subscribers": p. [557]-566.
Includes index.
Pages 1-145 general history of Pennsylvania, chiefly during the colonial period.
Subjects
Northumberland County (Pa.) - History.
Huntingdon County (Pa.) - History.
Mifflin County (Pa.) - History.
Centre County (Pa.) - History.
Union County (Pa.) - History.
Columbia County (Pa.) - History.
Juniata County (Pa.) - History.
Clinton County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Rupp, I. Daniel
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.8009 R946
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History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill counties : containing a brief history of the first settlers, topography of townships, notices of leading events, incidents, and interesting facts in the early history of these counties; with an appendix, containing matters of deep interest

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13115
Author
Rupp, I. Daniel
Date of Publication
197-.]
Call Number
974.82 R946
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compiled from various authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp.
Author
Rupp, I. Daniel
Place of Publication
[Exton, Pa
Publisher
Schiffer Ltd.,
Date of Publication
197-.]
Physical Description
xiv, 568 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Notes
Facsimile reprint of the 1845 ed. published by G. Hills, Lancaster, Pa., printed by Hickok and Cantine, Harrisburg, Pa.
"A journal of James Young, commissary general, of musters--from June 19 to June 26, 1756": p. [407]-420; "A journal of Captain John Van Etten, at Fort Hyndshaw and Fort Hamilton, in the Pennsylvania forces, from Dec. 1, 1756 to July 21, 1757": p. [421]-455; "A journal of Colonel James Burd, from Feb. 16th, 1758 to Mar. 10th, 1758": p. [447]-459; "Fragment of a journal containing an account of doings at Fort North Kill ... June 13 to Aug. 31 [1754]": p. [463]-477.
Subjects
Coal - Pennsylvania - Schuylkill County.
Northampton County (Pa.) - History.
Lehigh County (Pa.) - History.
Monroe County (Pa.) - History.
Carbon County (Pa.) - History.
Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Young, James.
Van Etten, John.
Burd, James,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.82 R946
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