[Philadelphia (1305 Locust St., Philadelphia 19107-5405)
Publisher
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1999]
Physical Description
11 v. ; 28 cm.
Series
Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ;
Notes
Originally published: Philadelphia : Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1893-1904.
Vol. 7 lacks t.p.
The text is a photoreproduction of the original ms.
Includes indexes.
Contents
[1] Books A, B, C, D 1682-1726 -- [2] 1726-1747 -- pt. 3. 1747-1763 -- v. 4. 1763-1784, will books N, O, P, Q -- v. 5. 1777-1793, will books R, S, T, U & abstracts of some other counties filed in Philadelphia County -- v. 6. Boosk [sic] W, X, Y (index is in volume 7), 1790-1802 -- [7] Index to Phila. wills, 1790-1802 -- v. 8. Books 1, 2, partial 3, 1802-1809 -- v. 9. 1810-1815 -- v. 10. Books 5 (concl.), 6, partial 7, 1815-1819 -- v. 11. Books 7 (concl.), 8, 1820-1825.
Changes in German Surnames and Personal Names--Changes in City and Village Names--Mennonites, Quakers and the Settlement of Pennsylvania--The Wandering Menno Simons--The Beginnings of English Quakerism--William Penn's Travels in Europe--Early German Quakers: A Small Minority--The Frankfort Companie--Germantown and the Susquehanna Subscribers--Protestantism and Books: Driving Forces behind the German Migration--The Froschauer Presses of Zurich--The German Americans--The Land of Wars--Of Kings and Queens and Lesser Nobility--The Rhine as a Migration Route.
edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith.
ISBN
0271016868 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016876 (paperback : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, PA : Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xv, 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Introduction : Pennsylavania's African American history : a review of the literature / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Slaves and slave owners in colonial Philadelphia / Gary B. Nash -- Black women in colonial Pennsylvania / Jean R. Soderlund -- "Since they got those separate churches" : Afro-Ameriacn and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg -- "Freedom, or the matyr's grave" : Black Pittsburgh's aid to the fugitive slave / R.J.M. Blackett -- The Forten-Purvis women of Philadelphia and the American antislavery crusade / Janice Sumler-Lewis -- No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African American population and the Civil War era / Leroy T. Hopkins -- Nineteenth-century Philadelphia Black militant : Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871) / Harry C. Silcox -- "Two steps forward, a step-and-a-half back" : Harrisburg's African American community in the nineteenth cerntury / Gerald G. Eggert -- The impact of the "new immigration" on the Black worker : Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 / John E. Bodnar -- Migration and jobs : the new Black workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930 / Peter Gottlieb -- The Black migration to Philadelphia : a 1924 profile / Frederic Miller -- The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918 / V.P. Franklin -- And the results showed promise...physicians, childbirth, and Southern Black migrant women, 1916-1930 : Pittsburgh as a case study / Carolyn Leonard Carson -- Black workers, defense industries, and federal agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941-1945 / Merl E. Reed -- The Black church in industrializing Western Pensylvania, 1870-1950 / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Double burden : the Black experience in Pittsburgh / Laurence Glasco -- Public housing, isolation, and the urban underclass : Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes, 1941-1965 / John Bauman, Norman P. Hummon, and Edward K. Muller -- Race and neighborhood transition / Elijah Anderson.
