A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new-printing-office, near the Market. ,
Date of Publication
M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
Physical Description
39, [1] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Other contents: Tax lists, Union Township/Lightfoot Collection, box 5, Lancaster Co., Earl twp; "Draught of lands in Lancaster County"/Surveys List of Surveys 1692; proprietary lands ca. 1776/General statitics, Mr. Hamilton's list, Dec. 1, 1765 by Edw Shippen/Pennsylvania cash accounts (Edmund Physick)/Penn MSS Pa. land grants/Lamberton Scotch-Irish Collection- Tax lists Cumberland/Lancaster Co. MSS II- Tax list Lancaster Boro/ [ditto] Tax list Cocalico/Draft of Meadow Land on River Delaware between Darby and Crum Creeks/ [ditto] Draft of farm on Hollander's Cr/Maps/Berks and Montgomery, Misc MSS- tax list Union twp
Indian speeches of Cornplanter, Half[?], etc, 1790/James Kenny Journal to the westware, 1758, 1761/Timothy Horsfield letterbook 1754-1755/Copy of Cornplanter's speech Oct 1790/Conrad Weiser's letter to C Saur
Also this roll of microfilm contains various early land transactions, copy of account of lands surveyed for the proprietors, list of ground rent for Lancaster city residents.
Originally copied for Russell Nelson by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864 -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.
Author's manuscript revisions for revised and enlarged 2d edition [Kneisly genealogy copyright 1932] using typescript of first edition and handwritten notes.
Chapters: The Puritan Ordinary // Old-time Taverns // The Tavern Landlord // Tavern Fare and Tavern Ways // Kill-devil and its Affines // Small Drink // Signs and Symbols // The Tavern in War // The Tavern Panorama // .From Path to Turnpike // Packhorse and Conestoga Wagon // Early Stage-coaches and Other Vehicles // Two Stage Veterans of Massachusetts // A Staging Centre // The Stage-driver // The Romance of the Road // The Pains of Stage-coach Travel // Knights of the Road // Tavern Ghosts
