Author: William C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : York County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
History of York County, from Its Erection to the Present Time
Author: William C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : York County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
History of York County
Author: W. C. and A. J. Glossbrenner CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
History of York County, from Its Erection to the Present Time
Author: William C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : York County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
History of York County from Its Erection to the Present Time; (1729-1834)
Author: W. C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781596411791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
New Edition; with Additions. York County was an established migration route for Germans, Irish, and English into Maryland during the 18th and 19th centuries. Though the book addresses the history of York County, it is also filled with lists of individuals in the professions, appointed and elected officials, ministers, Officers of the Revolutionary War, and many other residents. The various churches are documented, along with a short history; schools and other institutions are also mentioned, along with many of the members and affiliates. Also included is a section devoted to biographical sketches of many residents. Paperback, (1834), repr. 2009, Biblio., Index, 248 pp.
History of York County
Author: William C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
History of York County
Author: W.C. CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancaster County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
The Militia of the County York
Author: Dennis NessPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662423896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Little is known about the how and why of the establishment of a militia in Pennsylvania and the frontier in the 1700s. An incident in Delaware started the movement to secure a military organization to defend Philadelphia. This organization, known as associators, organized to learn the military art and defend the colony. This movement made its way to the frontier county of York. This small initial militia became engrained into the fabric of liberty of the inhabitants in the years leading up to the declaration of the colonies for independence. Establishing a militia in a Quaker-dominated state was very difficult. Arms had to be procured, training rules set, and expenses paid. No easy task, with the Assembly opposed to supporting the militia on religious grounds. York County was no different. The largest population were Germans, who opposed to bearing arms against anyone, who joined with the Quaker leadership, who supported their religious beliefs. Several other ethnic groups were willing to bear arms to defend their homeland against foreign intervention. That combination of differences started the discord that was an issue for the years leading up to the revolution and continued through to the end of the war. There have been attempts to write this story and clarify the history and the records. This is the latest attempt to explain the issues of the associators and the eventual founding of a state-supported militia during the darkest days of the revolutionary era.
Citizens in a Strange Land
Author: Hermann WellenreutherPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271069619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: pt. 1. Appointments and proceedings
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Volume one presents documents that establish the structure of the Supreme Court and recount the official record of the Court's activity during its first decade. It serves as an introduction and reference tool for the subsequent volumes in the series.
Bloody Dawn
Author: Thomas P. SlaughterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation. Bloody Dawn vividly tells this dramatic story of escape, manhunt, riot, and the ensuing trial, detailing its importance in heightening the tensions that led to the Civil War. Thomas Slaughter's engaging narrative captures the full complexity of events and personalities: The four men fled after they were detected stealing grain for resale off the farm; Gorsuch, far from a brutal taskmaster, had pledged to release all his slaves when they reached the age of twenty-eight, but he relentlessly pursued the escapees out of a sense of wounded honor; and the African-American community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania that provided them refuge was already effectively organized for self-defense by a commanding former slave named William Parker. Slaughter paints a rich portrait of the ongoing struggles between local blacks and white kidnapping gangs, the climactic riot as neighbors responded to trumpet calls from the besieged runaway slaves, the escape to Canada of the central figures (aided by Frederick Douglass), and the government's urgent response (including the largest mass indictment for treason in our history)--leading to the trial for his life of a local white bystander accused of leading the rioting blacks. Slaughter not only draws out the great importance given to the riot in both the North and the South, but he uses legal records reaching back over half a century to uncover the thoughts of average people on race, slavery, and violence. The Whiskey Rebellion, Slaughter's previous work of history, received widespread acclaim as "a vivid account" (The New York Times) and "an unusual combination of meticulous scholarship and engaging narrative" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). It was a selection of the History Book Club, and won both the National Historical Society Book Prize and the American Revolution Round Table Award. In Bloody Dawn, he once again weaves together the incisive insights of a professional historian with a gripping account of a dramatic moment in American history.