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Old Lancaster

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Author: Robinson, Mary N.

Date of Publication: 1900

Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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Responsibility: by Mrs. Mary N. Robinson.

Author: Robinson, Mary N.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [97]-109 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 5/6

Summary: Assorted observations of events in 18th century Lancaster County.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 5/6 (1900), p. 97-109Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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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

Responsibility: 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

Lancaster Borough

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Author: Steinman, George.

Date of Publication: 1900

: Lancaster Borough / by George Steinman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--19th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description

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Responsibility: by George Steinman, Esq.

Author: Steinman, George.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [143]-152 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 7/8

Summary: "From the founding of Lancaster till 1742, it had been moving along without a charter, but, at this time, the inhabitants felt they needed a stronger form of Government. The town now having three hundred houses, and all kinds of manufacturing being represented, the citizens desired the town chartered, and made application for the same. Through the influence of James Hamilton, Esq., a charter was granted and signed by George Thomas, Lieutenant Governor, under John, Thomas and Richard Penn, Proprietors, May 1st, 1742."

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 19th century.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 7/8 (1900), p. 143-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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Lancaster County miscellaneous papers, 1724-1816

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Date of Publication: n.d.

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,

Date of Publication: n.d.

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.

Notes: Shares reel with Lancaster county docket of cases, 1743-1749 and the Hamilton family letterbook, 1782-1790.; Labeled on box # 245 Part 1.; 500 items.; Miscellaneous papers relating to local government and economic affairs of Lancaster County: letters, 1733-1740, of Samuel Blunston to the proprietors, deal with the disputes between the Maryland and Pennsylvania authorities, land transactions, Indians on the Susquehanna, politics, legal matters, etc; letters of Thomas Cookson, George Craig, William Parsons, Richard Peters, George Smith, and others, 1739-1764; material on Conrad Weiser, 1756; accounts of Indian massacres, 1755; petitions, court records, surveys, indentures, land warrants, tax returns; petitions and lists of names of tavern keepers, 1766, 1769; account of the plan of the town of York, 1749; list of books added to the Lancaster library, ca. 1770; list of subscribers for the relief of inhabitants of Boston, Mass., 1774; military accounts and muster rolls, 1776; wills, estate papers, broadsides, and other items.; Original manuscript in collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.; For a photocopied index to this collection see LC 016 I38 Oversize.

Subjects: Cookson, Thomas, - 1709-1753. . . .; Craig, George.; Parsons, William, - 1701-1757.; Peters, Richard, - 1704-1776.; Smith, George.; Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760.; Blunston, Samuel, 1689-1745.; Paxton Boys.; Cresap's War; Court records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Indexes.; Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Lists.; Taverns (Inns) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Bibliography; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Susquehana Indians.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Militia.; York (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, Sec. 3: #245

Lancaster County contributors to relief of Boston, 1774

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1924

(a) LANCASTER COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS TO RELIEF OF BOSTON, 1774 Among the manuscripts in the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at Philadelphia in a Volume entitled "Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers," pp. 5 and 7 appear the following documents: "We whose

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Responsibility: by Henry Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1924

Physical Description: 3-5 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 1

Subjects: Boston (Mass.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Boston (Mass.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 1 (1924), p. 3-5Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28

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The red rose question

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1902

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1902

Physical Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 1/2

Subjects: Roses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Debt - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.6

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Atlantic Virginia : intercolonial relations in the seventeenth century

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Author: Hatfield, April Lee.

Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 975.5 H362

Responsibility: April Lee Hatfield.

ISBN: 0812237579 (alk. paper); 9780812237573 (alk. paper)

Author: Hatfield, April Lee.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: 312 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Chapters: : INDIAN AND ENGLISH GEOGRAPHIES -- SHAPING THE NETWORKS OF MARITIME TRADE -- MARINERS AND COLONISTS -- INTERCOLONIAL MIGRATION -- ENGLISH ATLANTIC NETWORKS AND RELIGION IN VIRGINIA -- CHESAPEAKE SLAVERY IN ATLANTIC CONTEXT -- CROSSING BORDERS -- VIRGINIA , NORTH AMERICA , AND ENGLISH ATLANTIC EMPIRE

Summary: "Through networks of trails and rivers inland and established ocean routes across the seas, seventeenth-century Virginians were connected to a vibrant Atlantic world. They routinely traded with adjacent Native Americans and received ships from England, the Netherlands, and other English and Dutch colonies, while maintaining less direct connections to Africa and to French and Spanish colonies. Their Atlantic world emerged from the movement of goods and services, but trade routes quickly became equally important in the transfer of people and information. Much seventeenth-century historiography, however, still assumes that each North American colony operated as a largely self-contained entity and interacted with other colonies only indirectly, through London. By contrast, in Atlantic Virginia, historian April Lee Hatfield demonstrates that the colonies actually had vibrant interchange with each other and with peoples throughout the hemisphere, as well as with Europeans." [from the dust jacket]

Subjects: Intercultural communication - America; Economische betrekkingen.; Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Virginia - Commerce - History - 17th century.; America - History - To 1810.; America - Ethnic relations.; America - Commerce - History - 17th century.; Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.; Spain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.; France - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.; Great Britain - Colonies - America - Commerce.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.5 H362

Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776

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Author: Spero, Patrick,

Date of Publication: 2018.

Call Number: 974.802 S749f

Responsibility: Patrick Spero.

Author: Spero, Patrick,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: W W. Norton & Company,

Date of Publication: 2018.

Physical Description: xvii [1], 268, [1]] pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Autographed by the author.; Includes author's note, notes, about the author and index.; "The Black Boys, also known as the Brave Fellows and the Loyal Volunteers, were members of a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion. The Black Boys, so-called because they sometimes blackened their faces during their actions, were upset with British policy regarding American Indians following Pontiac's War. When that war came to an end in 1765, the Pennsylvania government began to reopen trade with the Native Americans who had taken part in the uprising. Many settlers of the Conococheague Valley were outraged, having suffered greatly from Indian raids during the war. The 1764 Enoch Brown School Massacre, in which ten school children had been killed and scalped, was the most notorious example of these raids." [from Wikipedia]

Summary: "The American Revolution has traditionally been depicted as a struggle between North American settlers and British imperial forces, but this intensively researched study from Spero, the director of Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society Library, analyzes the crucial role of settler attitudes toward Native Americans in sparking the conflict. While administrators in London viewed Native people as important trading partners within their American empire, many white colonists saw them as a terrifying menace and 'wanted to be free of the Indians as much as they wanted to be free of their imperial overlords.' Spero tells of the little-studied Pennsylvania backcountry rebels called the Black Boys, who in 1765 revolted against Britain's willingness to accommodate Native interests. Readers who have been accustomed to considering the Revolutionary War as a conflict between American liberty and British oppression may find this account discomfiting, but Spero presents convincing support for his thesis that hatred of Indians and desire for their lands played a pivotal role in fomenting the revolution and 'produced the roadmap' for the next century of American history, delving deeply into previously underutilized sources, including the journals of fur trader George Croghan. Spero's thoughtful work is an important contribution to ongoing reassessments of the nature and meaning of the American founding." (from Publishers Weekly.com)

Subjects: Callendar, Robert.; Johnson, William, - Sir.; Insurgency - Pennsylvania; Croghan, George, - 1720?-1782; Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio River Valley; Black Boys Rebellion - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.; Illinois - Colonial peiod ca 1600-1775; Ohio - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.; Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.; Indians of North Americd; Indiana - Colonial period ca 1600-1775.; Gage, Thomas, - 1721-1787,; Pontiac's Conspiracy, - 1763-1765; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Frontier; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 S749f

The people with no name : Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764

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Author: Griffin, Patrick,

Date of Publication: c2001.

Call Number: 973.049 G852

Responsibility: Patrick Griffin.

ISBN: 0691074615 (cloth : alk. paper); 0691074623 (pbk.)

Author: Griffin, Patrick,

Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J

Publisher: Princeton University Press,

Date of Publication: c2001.

Physical Description: xv, 244 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.; The Scots who had moved to Ulster in Ireland suffered under economic and religious pressures, and many chose to emigrate to the American colonies in the years before the war for independence. In the colonies, they then faced economic, religious and cultural challenges as they adapted to the new land.

Contents: Chapters: 1 The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution / 2. Crisis and community in Ulster / 3. Ulster Presbyterian migration 1718 - 1729 / 4. Settlement and adaptation in a new world / 5. Responding to a changing frontier / 6.Surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world

Summary: "Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People With No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people -whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as 'a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish'- drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultrual change...The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and the place of the frontier in a larger empire." [book cover]

Subjects: Scots-Irish - United States; Scots - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); Presbyterians - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland); British - Atlantic Ocean Region; Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - Emigration and immigration - History.; United States - Emigration and immigration - History.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 18th century.; Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.049 G852

"Old Mother Cumberland"

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Author: Seilhamer, George D.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 24

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Responsibility: by George D. Seilhamer.

Author: Seilhamer, George D.

Physical Description: p. 17 - 47.

Notes: This record provides a link to this resource from the JSTOR online repository.; Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 24 (1900).

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Cumberland County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v. 24

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Pacifists, Paxton and politics : colonial Pa., 1763-1768

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Author: Ulle, Robert F.

Call Number: 905.748 PMH v. 1 no. 4

Responsibility: by Robert F. Ulle.

Author: Ulle, Robert F.

Physical Description: P. 18 - 21.

Notes: Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, v. 1, no. 4 (October 1978).

Subjects: Paxton Boys.; Conestoga Indians; Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PMH v. 1 no. 4

Penn's settlement on the River of Susquehannagh

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Author: Bradley, A. Day

Date of Publication: 1971.

Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 2 (1892), 224 by Julius F. Sachse. It was re- produced in facsimile as the frontispiece to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28 (1904). �

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Responsibility: by A. Day Bradley.

Author: Bradley, A. Day

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: [125]-128 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 3

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Susquehanna River.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 3 (1971), p. 125-128Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75

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Early history of Penn Square

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Author: Hostetter, Albert K.

Date of Publication: 1922

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.26

Responsibility: by Albert K. Hostetter.

Author: Hostetter, Albert K.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1922

Physical Description: 133-135 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 26, no. 6

Subjects: Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.26

A running story of Lancaster County : (from Hazard's Register--1613-1835)

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1923

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at

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Alternate Title: Register of Pennsylvania

Responsibility: compiled by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1923

Physical Description: 39-70 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 3

Notes: Book entitled "Register of Pennsylvania" by Samuel Hazard.

Summary: From the 16 volumes of Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania", Eshleman compiled the entries associated with Lancaster County in chronological order. The Register was "devoted to the preservation of facts and every other kind of useful information respecting the state of Pennsylvania."

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Chronology.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Additional Author: Hazard, Samuel,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 3 (1923), p. 39-70Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27

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Annals of Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware. 1609-1682

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Author: Hazard, Samuel,

Date of Publication: 1850.

Call Number: 974.80083 H428a

Author: Hazard, Samuel,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Hazard and Mitchell,

Date of Publication: 1850.

Physical Description: vii, 664 p.

Series: Pennsylvania county and regional histories. Reel 4, no. 7

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New Jersey - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Delaware - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80083 H428a

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

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Author: Fiske, John,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 973.22 F541

Responsibility: by John Fiske. Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, contemporary views, prints, and other historic materials...

Author: Fiske, John,

Place of Publication: Boston and New York

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part. double; incl. ports., maps, facsims.) 24 cm.

Notes: "Illustrated edition."; The facsimiles include reproductions of title-pages.

Subjects: Dutch - United States; Quakers - United States; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Middle Atlantic States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.22 F541

Frontier country : the politics of war in early Pennsylvania

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Author: Spero, Patrick,

Call Number: 974.802 S749

Responsibility: Patrick Spero.

ISBN: 0812248619; 9780812248616

Author: Spero, Patrick,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA

Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press,

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

Cresap's War: expansion and conflict in the Susquehanna Valley

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Author: Doutrich, Paul

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v.53

Responsibility: by Paul Doutrich.

Author: Doutrich, Paul

Physical Description: 84-104 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania History, v.53, (April 1986).

Subjects: Cresap, Thomas, - 1735-1737.; Logan, James.; Patterson, James.; Higginbotham, Charles.; Cresap's War; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.; Maryland - Boundaries.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca 1600-1775.; Maryland - History - Colonial period, ca 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PHA v.53

Early local historical items

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1913

, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

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Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1913

Physical Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5

Subjects: American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, Pa.); Newspapers - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 17, number 5 (1913), p. 123-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.17

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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

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Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: 2 p. Î²., [3]-415 p. 23 cm.

Notes: LCHS copy inscribed by author.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna Indians.; Conestoga Indians.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

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The red rose question

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Atlantic Virginia : intercolonial relations in the seventeenth century

Frontier rebels : the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776

The people with no name : Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764

"Old Mother Cumberland"

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Pacifists, Paxton and politics : colonial Pa., 1763-1768

Penn's settlement on the River of Susquehannagh

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Early history of Penn Square

A running story of Lancaster County : (from Hazard's Register--1613-1835)

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Annals of Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware. 1609-1682

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

Frontier country : the politics of war in early Pennsylvania

Cresap's War: expansion and conflict in the Susquehanna Valley

Early local historical items

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