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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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Lancaster Townstead

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Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1901
(Lancaster, Pa.) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--19th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900/1901 Description: [121]-133 p. : ill
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by S. M. Sener, Esq.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1901
Physical Description
[121]-133 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 6
Summary
''How, when and where (Lancaster,Pa ) laid out by the Hamiltons in1730 . The Hamilton ancestry and coat of arms.The ground rents, the market houses and the public spring . The population at various periods. "
Subjects
Lancaster Townstead (Lancaster, Pa.)
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 19th century.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
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Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5
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"The rage of opposing government" : the Stump affair of 1768

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Author
Ries, Linda A.
Date of Publication
1984
Call Number
974.843 CCH v.1, no.1
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by Linda A. Ries.
Author
Ries, Linda A.
Place of Publication
Carlisle, Pa
Publisher
Cumberland County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1984
Physical Description
p. 21 - 45 ; 23 cm.
Series
Cumberland County History ; v.1, no.1
Subjects
Stump, Frederick.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Stump Affair, Pa., 1768.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
974.843 CCH v.1, no.1
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Lancaster County miscellaneous papers, 1724-1816

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Date of Publication
n.d.
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
n.d.
Physical Description
1 reel , 35 mm.
Notes
Shares reel with Lancaster county docket of cases, 1743-1749 and the Hamilton family letterbook, 1782-1790.
Labeled on box # 245 Part 1.
500 items.
Miscellaneous papers relating to local government and economic affairs of Lancaster County: letters, 1733-1740, of Samuel Blunston to the proprietors, deal with the disputes between the Maryland and Pennsylvania authorities, land transactions, Indians on the Susquehanna, politics, legal matters, etc; letters of Thomas Cookson, George Craig, William Parsons, Richard Peters, George Smith, and others, 1739-1764; material on Conrad Weiser, 1756; accounts of Indian massacres, 1755; petitions, court records, surveys, indentures, land warrants, tax returns; petitions and lists of names of tavern keepers, 1766, 1769; account of the plan of the town of York, 1749; list of books added to the Lancaster library, ca. 1770; list of subscribers for the relief of inhabitants of Boston, Mass., 1774; military accounts and muster rolls, 1776; wills, estate papers, broadsides, and other items.
Original manuscript in collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
For a photocopied index to this collection see LC 016 I38 Oversize.
Subjects
Cookson, Thomas, - 1709-1753. . . .
Craig, George.
Parsons, William, - 1701-1757.
Peters, Richard, - 1704-1776.
Smith, George.
Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760.
Blunston, Samuel, 1689-1745.
Paxton Boys.
Cresap's War
Court records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Indexes.
Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Lists.
Taverns (Inns) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Bibliography
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Susquehana Indians.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Militia.
York (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245
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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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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 papers of Henry Bouquet

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Author
Bouquet, Henry,
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
974.80283 B765
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edited by S.K. Stevens, Donald H. Kent [and] Autumn L. Leonard.
Author
Bouquet, Henry,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
v. <1-5 > illus. (part fold.) ports. 24 cm.
Notes
"The Library of Congress ... photostatic reproductions of ... the Bouquet Papers in the British Museum ... were the chief source for our transcripts."
"The letters and documents have been rearranged in chronological order, instead of retaining the British Museum's serial arrangement as in the mimeographed edition."
Vol. 5 has title: The papers of Henry Bouquet.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"Henry Louis Bouquet, generally known as Henry Bouquet, was a Swiss mercenary who rose to prominence in British service during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. Bouquet is best known for his victory over a Native American force at the Battle of Bushy Run, lifting the siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's War." [from Wikipedia]
Contents
v. 1. December 11, 1755-May 31, 1758.--v. 2. The Forbes expedition.--v. 3. January 1, 1759-August 31, 1759. Edited by D.H. Kent, L.M. Waddell, A.L. Leonard.--v. 4. September 1, 1759-August 31, 1760. Edited by L.M. Waddell, J.L. Tottenham, D.H. Kent.--v. 5. September 1, 1760-October 31, 1761. Edited by L.M. Waddell, J.L. Tottenham, D.H. Kent.
Subjects
Bouquet, Henry, - 1719-1765 - Correspondence.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Additional Author
Stevens, Sylvester Kirby,
Kent, Donald H.
Leonard, Autumn L.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80283 B765
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Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Provincial history of Pennsylvania : with some notices of the writers

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Date of Publication
1855.
Call Number
974.8028 B174
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Crissy and Markley, Printers,
Date of Publication
1855.
Physical Description
cxxxviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
A selection from the "Shippen mss." in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; with other letters, papers, etc.
Privately printed.
Subjects
Shippen family.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Sources.
Additional Author
Balch, Thomas,
Shippen, Edward,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 B174
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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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The Black Boys uprising of 1765 : traders, troops, & "rioters" during Pontiac's War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/20984810
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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