Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller -- Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller -- Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery -- Searching for "Irish" freedom-settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller -- Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin -- Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon.
Jonah Davenport, an early eighteenth century Lancaster Indian trader, his son William Davenport, a Carlisle saddler, and grandson, Samuel Davenport, Trader General of the Tribes of Texas
"On the American frontier, there were men who always pushed the edge. These were often the Indian traders, solitary men who purchased great lots of manufactured goods, loaded them on trains of pack horses or mules and set out into the wilderness to trade with the Indians in exchange for skins and furs. Such a man was the Indian trader Jonah Davenport."
141 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-119) and index.
Contents
Foreword by Paula Reed -- Introduction -- The forces behind Scots-Irish migration -- Migration was a family affair -- An ocean crossing and a new life -- The frontier beckons -- Pioneer agriculture -- Terror on the frontier -- Return to the textile business -- Religion's central role in McCullogh's life -- McCullogh the businessman -- Writing in code -- Postscript -- Bibliography/references -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: James McCullogh's travels -- Appendix 2: Petition of McColoch (McCullough).
Summary
A facsimile of McCullogh's journal can be found on our shelves at 973.46 S798a.
Eight-year old Johann and his family arrived in Pennsylvania in 1747 on a ship named Restauration. The Thomas family, Mennonite pacifists escaping persecution in Europe, arrived just in time to experience the end of the Friends' control of the Pennsylvania legislature with pacifism as the official state policy toward Native Americans. This historical fiction traces Johann's next ten years through the unfolding French and Indian War.
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.
Rev ed. of: General John Fulton Reynolds / compiled by Lawrence Knorr. Camp Hill, PA : Sunbury Press, c2010.
Includes: Kinship of John Fulton Reynolds (p. 250-291).
Genealogy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. For God's sake forward! / by Michael A. Riley -- pt. 2. Reynolds, the last six miles / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 3. Reynolds, his own words before Gettysburg / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 4. The relations of John Fulton Reynolds / by Lawrence Knorr.
