The Storm Gathering : : The Penn Family and the American Revolution /

The Storm Gathering : : The Penn Family and the American Revolution / / Lorett Treese.

Treese's book provides a popular history of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period from the vantage point of the heirs of William Penn.Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few may...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Treese, Lorett,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©1992
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Keystone Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. "Receive What Moneys Thou Canst Get In"
  • 2. "Proprietary Affairs Suffer Much"
  • 3. "To Kill Us All, and Burn the Town"
  • 4. "Contentions and Squabbling"
  • 5. "To Prevent a Stamp Duty Being Laid on America"
  • 6. "Greatest Confusion"
  • 7. "Ungovernable Spirit of the Frontier"
  • 8. "The Storm Gathering"
  • 9. "More Vexation and Uneasiness"
  • 10. "A Fortune in the Clouds"
  • 11. "So Glorious an Exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit"
  • 12. "Keeping Up the Flame"
  • 13. "Surrounded with Many Vexations":
  • 14. "A Difficult Card to Play"
  • 15. "Very Alarming to the Inhabitants of Those Parts"
  • 16. "Calm Spectator of the Civil War"
  • 17. "Unjustly Deprived of Their Property"
  • 18. "Without Repining What Is Out of Our Power"
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Condensed Penn Family Tree and Interests in the Proprietorship
  • Appendix B: Chronology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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