Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Tax List of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1768
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Tax List of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: F. Edward WrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9781585491308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This volume lists persons who were taxed, i.e.: householders or landholders and tenants, residents in the household of another who worked for the landowner, freemen who were single men over the age of twenty-one, and non-residents of unseated (unoccupied) land. Acreage, number of cattle, horses, sheep and servants are given (when appropriate). It includes present day Delaware County.
Proprietary Tax Lists of the County of Chester ...
Author: Chester County (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The Forest City Lynching of 1900
Author: J. Timothy ColePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786480401
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Politics in Rutherford County were heated a century ago: the developing textile industry, the growing population, an agricultural crisis and race relations inflamed everyone. Mills Higgins Flack, a leader of the Farmers' Alliance and the county's first Populist in the state House, was allegedly murdered on August 28, 1900, by Avery Mills, an African American. This book documents the murder and the lynching of Avery Mills. The author (Flack's great-great-grandson) considers the phenomena of racial lynching, the Populist movement in the county, the white supremacy movement of the state's Democratic party and the county's KKK activities.
Brothers in Arms
Author: Christopher McManusPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796010081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Explore the lives of two orphaned brothers caught up in the maelstrom of the American Civil War. Thomas and Otho McManus both rose through the ranks and fought in numerous battles and skirmishes. One survived; the other was killed leading a battle charge seven days before the truce at Appomattox. The survivor married his brother’s widow. This study also traces their roots, explores the lives of their siblings and cousins, and follows five generations of their descendants. Otho McManus wrote more than one hundred wartime letters. Excerpts from those letters provide profound insights into family ties and battle experiences. The story of the brothers’ forebears is a window into American families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The brothers’ parents, aunts, and uncles joined a great westward migration to the new states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Interesting sidelights include the last slave in Pennsylvania and an inheritance interrupted by the battle of Gettysburg. This study draws on forty years of the author’s personal research and more than a century of cumulative research by others. Family Bibles, letters, wills, censuses, obituaries, grave inscriptions, military records, and county histories are some of the sources consulted. Topics include such diverse areas as migration patterns, military experiences, occupations, patterns of child-bearing, and the historical setting of each generation.
The Crawford Exchange
Author: Wives Not Slaves
Author: Kirsten SwordPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675748X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
"Is marriage a privilege or a right? A sacrament or a contract? Is it a public or a private matter? Where does ultimate jurisdiction over it lie? And when a marriage goes wrong, how do we adjudicate marital disputes-particularly in the usual circumstance, where men and women do not have equal access to power, justice, or even voice? These questions have long been with us because they defy easy, concrete answers. Kirsten Sword here reveals that contestation over such questions in early America drove debates over the roles and rights not only of women but of all unfree people. Sword shows how and why gendered hierarchies change-and why, frustratingly, they don't"--
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches
Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
The Negro in Pennsylvania
Author: Edward Raymond TurnerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery-Servitude-Freedom 1639-1861 [1912]
Pennsylvania Archives
Author: Samuel HazardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.