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Conrad Weiser Homestead : Pennsylvania trail of history guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11789
Author
Bradley, John.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
c2001.
Call Number
974.816 B811
Responsibility
text by John Bradley ; photographs by Kyle R. Weaver.
ISBN
0811727394 (pbk.)
Author
Bradley, John.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, Pa
Publisher
Stackpole Books,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Physical Description
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania trail of history guides
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 48).
Subjects
Weiser, Conrad, - 1696-1760.
Conrad Weiser House (Womelsdorf, Pa.)
Pioneers - Pennsylvania - Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Womelsdorf (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Weaver, Kyle R.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 B811
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Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13456
Author
Merrell, James Hart,
Date of Publication
2000, c1999.
Call Number
974.802 M568
Alternate Title
Negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier
Responsibility
James H. Merrell.
ISBN
0393046761
Author
Merrell, James Hart,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Norton,
Date of Publication
2000, c1999.
Physical Description
463 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Notes
"1st pub. as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-438) and index.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Pioneers - Pennsylvania
Negotiation - Pennsylvania
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania
Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 M568
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Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Date of Publication
©2003.
Call Number
973.049 K14
  1 website  
Responsibility
Bobbie Kalman & Amanda Bishop.
ISBN
0778707466
9780778707462
077870792X
9780778707929
0613529081
9780613529082
Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crabtree Pub.,
Date of Publication
©2003.
Physical Description
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.
Subjects
Slaves - United States - Juvenile literature.
Plantation life - United States - Juvenile literature.
African American families - Juvenile literature.
African Americans - Juvenile literature.
African American families.
African Americans.
Plantation life.
Slaves
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.
United States - History - 1600-1775, Colonial period - Juvenile literature.
USHISTORY-SLAVES-JUVLIT.
History.
Juvenile works.
Additional Author
Bishop, Amanda.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.049 K14
Websites
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The people with no name : Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13898
Author
Griffin, Patrick,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Call Number
973.049 G852
Responsibility
Patrick Griffin.
ISBN
0691074615 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691074623 (pbk.)
Author
Griffin, Patrick,
Place of Publication
Princeton, N.J
Publisher
Princeton University Press,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Physical Description
xv, 244 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
The Scots who had moved to Ulster in Ireland suffered under economic and religious pressures, and many chose to emigrate to the American colonies in the years before the war for independence. In the colonies, they then faced economic, religious and cultural challenges as they adapted to the new land.
Contents
Chapters: 1 The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution / 2. Crisis and community in Ulster / 3. Ulster Presbyterian migration 1718 - 1729 / 4. Settlement and adaptation in a new world / 5. Responding to a changing frontier / 6.Surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world
Summary
"Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People With No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people -whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as 'a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish'- drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultrual change...The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and the place of the frontier in a larger empire." [book cover]
Subjects
Scots-Irish - United States
Scots - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Presbyterians - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
British - Atlantic Ocean Region
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - Emigration and immigration - History.
United States - Emigration and immigration - History.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 18th century.
Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.049 G852
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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21090
Author
Kenny, Kevin,
Date of Publication
2009.
Call Number
974.802 K36
  1 website  
Responsibility
Kevin Kenny.
ISBN
9780195331509
0195331508
9780199753949
0199753946
Author
Kenny, Kevin,
Place of Publication
Oxford ; New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
2009.
Physical Description
viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Notes
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.
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718 - Philosophy.
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Paxton Boys.
Vigilantes - Pennsylvania
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania
Culture conflict - Pennsylvania
Culture conflict.
Indians of North America.
Philosophy.
Race relations.
Vigilantes.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - Race relations - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 K36
Websites
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Friends and enemies in Penn's Woods : Indians, colonists, and the racial construction of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18543
Date of Publication
c2004.
Call Number
974.802 F911
Responsibility
edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter.
ISBN
0271023856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Physical Description
xxi, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Peoples in conversation. New Sweden, natives, and nature / Michael Dean Mackintosh -- Colonialism and the discursive antecedents of Penn's treaty with the Indians / James O'Neil Spady -- Imagining peace in Quaker and Native American dream stories / Carla Gerona -- Indian, metis, and Euro-American women on multiple frontiers / Alison Duncan Hirsch. II. Fragile structures of coexistence. Female relationships and intercultural bonds in Moravian Indian missions / Amy C. Schutt -- The death of Sawantaeny and the problem of justice on the frontier / John Smolenski -- Justice, retribution, and the case of John Toby / Louis M. Waddell -- The diplomatic career of Canasatego / William A. Starna. III. Toward a white Pennsylvania. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase / Steven C. Harper -- Squatters, Indians, proprietary government, and land in the Susquehanna Valley / David L. Preston -- Metonymy, violence, patriarchy, and the Paxton boys / Krista Camenzind -- "Real" Indians, "white" Indians, and the contest for the Wyoming Valley / Paul Moyer -- Whiteness and warfare on a revolutionary frontier / Gregory T. Knouff.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania
Culture conflict - Pennsylvania
Colonists - Pennsylvania
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania - Race relations.
Pennsylvania - Ethnic relations.
Additional Author
Pencak, William,
Richter, Daniel K.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 F911
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Over here : Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during wartime

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18936
Date of Publication
2008.
Call Number
940.531 O96
ISBN
9780974016269
0974016268
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
vi, 138 p. : ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
The fourth book in a series of photographic histories of the county illustrates how Lancastrians participated in times of war. From the Civil War to the Iraq war , from the homefront to the trenches, whether gathering scrap or going off to foreign lands.
Subjects
Civilians in war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.
War and society - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.
Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 20th century - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Ryan, Thomas R.
Loose, John W.W.
Snow, Marcus S.
Wee, Kathy Wallace
Heckles, Marianne
Smucker, David Rempel
Netscher, C. Nat
Snow, Amanda
Weber, Robert W.
Rauhauser, Barry
Abel, Michael L.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
940.531 O96
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Atlantic Virginia : intercolonial relations in the seventeenth century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16315
Author
Hatfield, April Lee.
Date of Publication
2004.
Call Number
975.5 H362
Responsibility
April Lee Hatfield.
ISBN
0812237579 (alk. paper)
9780812237573 (alk. paper)
Author
Hatfield, April Lee.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
2004.
Physical Description
312 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapters: : INDIAN AND ENGLISH GEOGRAPHIES -- SHAPING THE NETWORKS OF MARITIME TRADE -- MARINERS AND COLONISTS -- INTERCOLONIAL MIGRATION -- ENGLISH ATLANTIC NETWORKS AND RELIGION IN VIRGINIA -- CHESAPEAKE SLAVERY IN ATLANTIC CONTEXT -- CROSSING BORDERS -- VIRGINIA , NORTH AMERICA , AND ENGLISH ATLANTIC EMPIRE
Summary
"Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth-century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch colonies, while maintaining less direct connections to Africa and to French and Spanish colonies. Their Atlantic world emerged from the movement of goods and services, but trade routes quickly became equally important in the transfer of people and information. Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London. By contrast, in Atlantic Virginia, historian April Lee Hatfield demonstrates that the colonies actually had vibrant interchange with each other and with peoples throughout the hemisphere, as well as with Europeans." [from the dust jacket]
Subjects
Intercultural communication - America
Economische betrekkingen.
Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia - Commerce - History - 17th century.
America - History - To 1810.
America - Ethnic relations.
America - Commerce - History - 17th century.
Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.
Spain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.
France - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.
Great Britain - Colonies - America - Commerce.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
975.5 H362
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George Croghan and the westward movement, 1741-1782

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18656
Author
Volwiler, Albert T.
Date of Publication
2000.
Call Number
974.802 V944
Responsibility
by Albert T. Volwiler, with maps.
ISBN
1889037222
9781889037226
Author
Volwiler, Albert T.
Place of Publication
Lewisburg, Pa
Publisher
Wennawoods Pub.,
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
370 p. : facsim., maps ; 24 cm.
Series
The great Pennsylvania frontier series
Notes
Originally published: Cleveland, Ohio : Arthur H. Clark Co., 1926.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-350) and index.
Subjects
Croghan, George, - d. 1782.
Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Croghan, George,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 V944
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Lancaster at play : leisure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17954
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
790 L244
Responsibility
editors: James T. Alton and Thomas R. Ryan.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
Cadmus Communications,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
vi.; 138 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Project manager: Marianne Heckles.
Summary
The third book in a series of photographic histories of the county highlights how Lancastrians had fun and spent their leisure time from the late 1800s to 1970. Its chapters cover a wide range of subjects-from amusement parks to swimming holes to movie theaters to athletic events.
Subjects
Leisure - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Pictorial works.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - 19th century - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Heckles, Marianne.
Abel, Michael L.
Alton, James T.
Ryan, Thomas R.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
790 L244
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