Author: George Valentine Massey (II)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Pennocks of Primitive Hall
Author: George Valentine Massey (II)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Pennocks of Primitive Hall
Author: George Valentine Massey, IIPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781019367971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the history of the Pennock family and the Primitive Hall mansion in Chester County, Pennsylvania. This book offers a detailed account of their lives, from colonial America through the present day. Illustrated with photographs and archival documents. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Pennock
Author: George V. Massey, IIPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832822278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Pennock Family
Do You Remember when
Author: Glenn Raymond LarkeA Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections
Author: Richard Upsher SmithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611463459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691248184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Jefferson continues his pattern of returning home to Monticello for the summer months. He makes a brief visit to Poplar Forest in Bedford County to plan the development of that property. James Hubbard, a young enslaved worker at Monticello, escapes but is captured in Fairfax County. Another slave who has fled, James Hemings, rejects efforts to persuade him to return and disappears. Receiving news of the end of the conflict with Tripoli, Jefferson states that although it is “a small war in fact, it is big in principle.” He devotes much of his attention to relations with Spain. He considers alliance with Great Britain to force a resolution with Spain, then chooses instead to negotiate with France for the purchase of Florida and settlement of matters in dispute with Spain. He drafts bills to organize the militia by age and create a naval militia. Specimens sent by Lewis and Clark arrive. Jefferson calculates that the United States has recently acquired cessions of well over 9 million acres of land from Native Americans. He meets with visiting Creek leaders. Answering a query, Jefferson states that Patrick Henry was “the greatest orator that ever lived” but “avaritious & rotten hearted.”
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Warner Mifflin
Author: Gary B. NashPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229436X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.
The Magazine Antiques
Author: Coombs Family History
Author: Publisher: Copyright held by Jan Gregoire Coombs
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book traces the history of immigrants from the British Isles who settled in New England and Virginia, and whose progeny were among the first settlers in Wisconsin.