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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 was reproduced from the…
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The Colonial Pennsylvania
By: The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Pub. 1904, Reprinted 2019, soft cover, Vol. 1, (1676-1681): 562 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-021-7.
New Castle County was one the first three counties in…
Anne Bezanson,Robert Gray,Hussey Miriam
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
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Guy Soulliard Klett
David Martin
This volume invites readers to step back in time to colonial Pennsylvania, in whose storied history we can find the origins of the United States. This comprehensive look at Pennsylvania’s…
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G S Prentzas
J L Anthony
In 1757 Hannah Meyer disappears in the sparcely populated backwoods of North America and nothing is heard of her for several years. Only when one of her treasured momentos suddenly…
Weber provides a comprehensive account of the charity school movement in Pennsylvania during the colonial period, examining the motivations and methods behind these institutions. He traces the development of charity…
Kuhns
The Massachusetts Bay Company’s claim on New England was preceded by those of two other joint stock companies. The first of these was the Dorchester Company, organized by the Anglican…
Burd Shippen Patterson
M Katherine Jackson
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Press of the New Era Printing Company Subjects: American literature Pennsylvania Authors, American Literature Biography
Pennsylvania (Colony)
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
S G Moyer
This is not just a history book. The sheer amount of detailed information regarding each battle and skirmish collectively called the Philadelphia Campaign during the Revolutionary War, would fill volumes…
Joseph Solomon Walton
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…
Joseph S Walton
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Originally published in 1900, Walton's work was the first full-length biographical work on Conrad Weiser, surpassing the prior family history written by a Weiser descendant, Clement Zwingli Weiser, in 1876.
The career of Conrad Weiser in Pennsylvania marks an epoch in the Indian policy of the Province. The struggle between the two rival European nations for possession of the Ohio…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Kenneth Scott (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
John Smolenski
Friends and Strangers offers a provocative new look at the transfer of English culture to North America. Setting Pennsylvania in the context of the broader Atlantic phenomenon of creolization, Smolenski’s…
Richard C. Allen
Exploring the emigration to colonial Pennsylvania of Welsh members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), this book appraises their experiences during a period of unparalleled change. It begins by…
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Henry Christopher McCook
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Oscar Kuhns
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
Covers the German settlement of Pennsylvania down to the Revolutionary War. Discusses Europe in the 1700s, settlements made in Pennsylvania, and every-day life of the immigrants. Also lists German surnames…
Oscar 1856-1929 Kuhns
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Percy Burdelle 1896- Caley
In 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn, a Quaker, sole proprietorship of more than 450,000 acres of North American land. The colony soon offered thousands of European settlers the…
Percy Burdelle Caley
Child Life In Colonial Western Pennsylvania has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future…
Dietmar Rothermund
The Layman’s Progress introduces a new point of view into American Colonial historiography by focusing on contemporary attitudes rather than interpreting the period from the viewpoint of subsequent events.
Elwood E Yoder
Henry and Anna Funk carved out a life together on their Colonial Pennsylvania farm located about thirty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia. They built a mill and created a peaceful community…
