The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo
793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Tail-pieces.
"Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]
"Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.
"Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.
"List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.
Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.
Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface
Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley : comprising the counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settlers
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.
The army and navy of America : containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War : independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea : enlivened by a variety of the most interesting anecdotes and embellished with engravings
The genesis of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; its aborigines, explorers, early settlement and development, Indian wars and the Revolution, and formation as a county
The life of Rev. Michael Schlatter; with a full account of his travels and labors among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia; including his services as chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the war of the revolution. 1716 to 1790
"A true history of the real condition of the destitute congregations in Pennsylvania, by Michael Schlatter" (a translation of Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pennsylvanien ... Amsterdam, 1751): p. 87-234.
Reverend Michael Schlatter was a minister of the German Reformed church who came to America to serve German immigrants. He was pastor in churches in Germantown and Philadelphia, and he also made missionary tours among the German Reformed settlers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York State.
The army and navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Limits of empire -- Cultural communities and the politics of land -- Kinship and the economics of empire -- Part 2: Empowered communities -- The Indian Great Awakening -- Mission community networks -- Part 3: War and peace -- Demonizing Delawares -- Quakers and the language of Indian diplomacy -- Part 4: Boundaries redrawn -- An uneasy peace -- Indian nations and empire.
Includes genealogies of three Native American families in Appendix B.
Historical map of Pennsylvania : with a history of Indian treaties and land titles showing the Indian names of streams, and villages, and paths of travel; the sites of old forts and battlefields; the successive purchase from the Indians; and the names and dates of counties and county towns; with tables of forts and proprietary manors
edited by P. W. Sheafer (1875) Ronald R. Wenning (2004).
ISBN
1889037370
Place of Publication
Lewisburg, Pa
Publisher
Wennawoods Pub.,
Date of Publication
2004.
Physical Description
1 v. (various paging) : ill., fold. map ; 24 cm.
Series
The great Pennsylvania frontier series
Notes
Includes depictions of figures carved on rocks by Indians from along the Susquehanna River, Indian heiroglyphics and an Indian map.
Contents
Historical map of Pennsylvania -- History of land titles -- Indian wars of Pennsylvania -- Conference on Fort Pitt April-May 1768 -- Proceedings at a treaty held at Fort Stanwix in the months of Oct. & Nov. 1768 -- Purchase of Fort Stanwix Nov 5, 1768.
