Friday, October 20, annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German society; Saturday, October 21, Germantown's community celebration; Sunday, October 22, religious observances.
Cause for dissension--Washington's crossing and the Battle of Trenton--Battle of the Brandywine--Paoli massacre--Battle of Germantown--Destruction of Fort Mifflin--Winter at Valley Forge--Hospital at Yellow Springs--Near disaster at Barren Hill--Free and independent states,
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders
"[Steven Rosswurm] writes a fascinating history of the American Revolution from the perspective of Philadelphia's 'Lower Sort' within the overlapping context of power,class relations, and wartime service in the patriot militia. He posits a transformation in consciousness of the lower sort attributable in large part to the revolutionary experience, a short term politicization of a previously excluded lower class constituency, and an unsuccessful effort to realize a true social revolution within the confines of the political revolt against Great Britain." [from a review of this book by Thomas P. Slaughter of Rutgers University in the "American Historical Review"]
