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A country storekeeper in Pennsylvania : creating economic networks in early America, 1790 -1807

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Author
Wenger, Diane E.,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Call Number
381.1 W474
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Diane E. Wenger.
ISBN
9780271034126 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271034122 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Wenger, Diane E.,
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
x, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction: a country storekeeper and his network of relationships -- Beyond "wild forest people": Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania -- The Rex Store and its local customers -- Feeding the furnaces: the iron community and the Rex Store -- "Orders thankfully received, and carefully executed": Rex and the Philadelphia merchants -- A life of "comparative ease" -- Epilogue: Rex's network and its significance.
Summary
"Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Rex, Samuel, - d.1835.
General stores - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Merchants - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Business networks - Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Commerce - History - 18th century.
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - Economic conditions - 18th century.
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
381.1 W474
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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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Lititz 250 : a historical anthology

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Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
974.815 LITB L778L
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Alternate Title
Lititz two hundred fifty
ISBN
1578644720 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Virginia Beach, VA
Publisher
Donning Co.,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
240 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Community life - Pennsylvania - Lititz
Lititz (Pa.) - History.
Lititz (Pa.) - History - Pictorial works.
Lititz (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LITB L778L
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Early presidential elections in Lancaster County

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Author
Martin, C. H.
Date of Publication
1943.
satisfaction was expressed in finding the general voice of the people to favor Washington and Adams as president and vice-president under the new gov- ernment. In encouraging support of the Lancaster ticket, the Pennsylvania Packet, published in Philadelphia, contained an address to "Fellow-Citizens ;" naming
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by C. H. Martin.
Author
Martin, C. H.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
[93]-105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 47, no. 5
Subjects
Presidents - United States
Elections - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 47, number 5 (1943), p. 93-105Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.47
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Lititz 250 : 1756 - 2006

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Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
974.815 LITB L782 DVD
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Lititz two hundred fifty
Place of Publication
Ephrata, PA
Publisher
Blue Ridge Communications.,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs ; 3/4 in.
Subjects
Community life - Pennsylvania - Lititz
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz
Lititz (Pa.) - History.
Lititz (Pa.) - History - Pictorial works.
Lititz (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Media
Call Number
974.815 LITB L782 DVD
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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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Graveyard of the Revolutionary soldiers of Lititz

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1933
GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who
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by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1933
Physical Description
[1]-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 37, no. 1
Subjects
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Lititz (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 37, number 1 (1933), p. 1-5Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.37
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The Pennsylvania militia : the early years, 1669-1792

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Author
Newland, Samuel J.
Date of Publication
c1997.
Call Number
974.8 N549
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Samuel J. Newland.
Author
Newland, Samuel J.
Place of Publication
Annville, Pa
Publisher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xi, 173 p., 14 p. of plates : ill. (mostly col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173).
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Militia - History - 18th century.
Pennsylvania - History, Military - 18th century.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8 N549
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Newspapers as historic records

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Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Date of Publication
1922
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.26
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by A. K. Hostetter.
Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1922
Physical Description
155-163 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 26, no. 7
Subjects
New Un-partisan Lancaster Paper and Advertising Directory (Lancaster, Pa.)
American newspapers
German American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.26
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Extracts from the early court records of Chester County, Pa

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Author
Wilson, H.
Date of Publication
1931
EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to
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by H. Wilson.
Author
Wilson, H.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1931
Physical Description
247-252 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 10
Subjects
Court records - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 10 (1931), p. 247-252Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35
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