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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21709
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
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George Croghan and the westward movement, 1741-1782

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18656
Author
Volwiler, Albert T.
Date of Publication
2000.
Call Number
974.802 V944
Responsibility
by Albert T. Volwiler, with maps.
ISBN
1889037222
9781889037226
Author
Volwiler, Albert T.
Place of Publication
Lewisburg, Pa
Publisher
Wennawoods Pub.,
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
370 p. : facsim., maps ; 24 cm.
Series
The great Pennsylvania frontier series
Notes
Originally published: Cleveland, Ohio : Arthur H. Clark Co., 1926.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-350) and index.
Subjects
Croghan, George, - d. 1782.
Frontier and pioneer life - Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Additional Author
Croghan, George,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 V944
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Journal of Capt. Jonathan Heart on the march with his company from Connecticut to Fort Pitt, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from the seventh of September, to the twelfth of October, 1785, inclusive : to which is added the Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5 ; the whole illustrated with notes and preceded by a biographical sketch of Captain Heart by Consul Willshire Butterfield

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3954
Author
Heart, Jonathan,
Date of Publication
1885.
Call Number
923.5 H436b
Author
Heart, Jonathan,
Place of Publication
Albany
Publisher
J. Munsell's Sons,
Date of Publication
1885.
Physical Description
xv, 94 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Edition of 150 copies."
Includes Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5.
Subjects
Heart, Jonathan, - 1748-1791.
United States. - Army. - Infantry, 1st.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River Valley - History.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History.
United States - History - Confederation, 1783-1789.
Additional Author
Butterfield, Consul Willshire,
Dickinson, John,
Harmar, Josiah,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H436b
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The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3424
Author
Hanna, Charles A.
Date of Publication
1911.
Call Number
974.8028 H243
  2 websites  
Responsibility
with some new annals of the old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones, by Charles A. Hanna ... with eighty maps and illustrations.
Author
Hanna, Charles A.
Place of Publication
New York, London
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's sons,
Date of Publication
1911.
Physical Description
2 v. fronts., plates, maps (part fold.) facsim. 25 cm.
Notes
"Of this work one thousand copies have been printed from type, and the type destroyed."
Contents
Chapters in volume 1: The debatable land // The Iroquoians of the Susquehanna // The Petticoat indians of Petticoat land // The Shawnees // The early traders of Conestoga, Donegal and Paxtang // The young red man goes west // The Shamokin traders and the Shamokin Path // Andrew Montour, the "Half Indian" // The Frankstown Path // The Raystown Path // The traders at Allegheny on the main path; with some annals of Kittanning and Chartier's Town // The Ohio Mingoes of the White River and the Wendats // Kuskuskies on the the Beaver // Logstown on the Ohio.
Chapters in volume 2: George Croghan , the king of the traders // The Ohio Valley before the white man came // The Lower Shanee town; or Chillicothe on the Ohio // The Chonchake Route and other Ohio paths // John Finley and Kentucky before Boone // Pickawillany Path // The Indian trade and Pennsylvania traders // The perils of the path.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Ohio River Valley - History - To 1795.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8028 H243
Websites
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