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Colonial Philadelphians

Author : Hannah Benner Roach
Publisher : Genealogical Society of PA
ISBN 13 : 9781422367346
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Philadelphians written by Hannah Benner Roach and published by Genealogical Society of PA. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Josephine Benner Roach (1907-1976) was a distinguished genealogist & also an architect & historian. This volume of selected examples of her published articles represents something of the breadth of her interests & abilities, as well as her meticulous care as a researcher in genealogy. Contents: The Blackwell Rent Roll, 1689; Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690; Taxables in Chestnut, Middle & South Wards Philadelphia, 1754; Taxables in the City of Philadelphia, 1756; Philadelphia¿s Colonial Poor Laws, & Taxables in Chestnut, Walnut & Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, 1767; & Genealogical Gleanings from Dr. Rush¿s Ledger A.

The Philadelphia Country House

Author : Mark E. Reinberger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411636
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Philadelphia Country House written by Mark E. Reinberger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and Garden: Accommodation of the Vernacular

Colonial families of Philadelphia

Author : John W. Jordan
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5880233553
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Colonial families of Philadelphia written by John W. Jordan and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1911 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Not All Wives

Author : Karin A. Wulf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745352
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Not All Wives written by Karin A. Wulf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies. In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources ranging from tax lists, censuses, poor relief records, and wills to almanacs, newspapers, correspondence, and poetry to recreate the daily experiences of women who were never-married, widowed, divorced, or separated. With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.

The Cabinetmaker's Account

Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871692719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Cabinetmaker's Account written by Jay Robert Stiefel and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.

Life and Times in Colonial Philadelphia

Author : Joseph J. Kelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life and Times in Colonial Philadelphia written by Joseph J. Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Governed by a Spirit of Opposition

Author : Jessica Choppin Roney
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415275
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Governed by a Spirit of Opposition written by Jessica Choppin Roney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To what extent did the American Revolution involve ordinary people? Historians as notable as Carl Becker and Edmund Morgan famously have asked this question or versions of it, but here Roney approaches it afresh by examining local governance and civic associations in Philadelphia, the largest colonial American city. How did popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks prepare people to adopt radical ideas and take to the streets protesting against tyranny in the 1760s and 70s? Roney's GOVERNED BY A SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION will both be an important addition to the current literature on public life in early America, and also to the wider literature on urban governance in the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. She sheds light on the powerful roles played by men acting in the political and constitutional circumstances of early Philadelphia leading up to the Revolution"--

First City

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812219422
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book First City written by Gary B. Nash and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.

Real Philly History, Real Fast

Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439919240
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Real Philly History, Real Fast written by Jim Murphy and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--

I, Eliza Hamilton

Author : Susan Holloway Scott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1496712528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book I, Eliza Hamilton written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza—a fascinating, strong-willed heroine in her own right and a key figure in one of the most gripping periods in American history. “Love is not easy with a man chosen by Fate for greatness . . .” As the daughter of a respected general, Elizabeth Schuyler is accustomed to socializing with dignitaries and soldiers. But no visitor to her parents’ home has affected her so strongly as Alexander Hamilton, a charismatic, ambitious aide to George Washington. They marry quickly, and despite the tumult of the American Revolution, Eliza is confident in her brilliant husband and in her role as his helpmate. But it is in the aftermath of war, as Hamilton becomes one of the country’s most important figures, that she truly comes into her own. In the new capital, Eliza becomes an adored member of society, respected for her fierce devotion to Hamilton as well as her grace. Behind closed doors, she astutely manages their expanding household, and assists her husband with his political writings. Yet some challenges are impossible to prepare for. Through public scandal, betrayal, personal heartbreak, and tragedy, she is tested again and again. In the end, it will be Eliza’s indomitable strength that makes her not only Hamilton’s most crucial ally in life, but also his most loyal advocate after his death, determined to preserve his legacy while pursuing her own extraordinary path through the nation they helped shape together.

The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia

Author : Frank Cousins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia written by Frank Cousins and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial Families of Philadelphia

Author : John Woolf Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Families of Philadelphia written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778

Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 written by Stephen R. Taaffe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagingly recounts how this often underestimated Revolutionary War campaign became a critical turning point in the war that led to the ultimate victory of the Continental Army over the British forces.

The Quaker Colonies; A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware

Author : Sydney George Fisher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368457551
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Quaker Colonies; A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware written by Sydney George Fisher and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

THE QUAKER COLONIES

Author : SYDNEY G. FISHER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE QUAKER COLONIES written by SYDNEY G. FISHER and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom

Author : Hannah Callender Sansom
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801475139
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom written by Hannah Callender Sansom and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these changes from her position as a well-educated member of the colonial Quaker elite and as a resident of Philadelphia, the principal city in North America, this assertive, outspoken woman described her life and her society in a diary kept intermittently from the time she was twenty-one years old in 1758 through the birth of her first grandchild in 1788. As a young woman, she enjoyed sociable rounds of visits and conviviality. She also had considerable freedom to travel and to develop her interests in the arts, literature, and religion. In 1762, under pressure from her father, she married fellow Quaker Samuel Sansom. While this arranged marriage made financial and social sense, her father's plans failed to consider the emerging goals of sensibility, including free choice and emotional fulfillment in marriage. Hannah Callender Sansom's struggle to become reconciled to an unhappy marriage is related in frank terms both through daily entries and in certain silences in the record. Ultimately she did create a life of meaning centered on children, religion, and domesticity. When her beloved daughter Sarah was of marriageable age, Hannah Callender Sansom made certain that, despite risking her standing among Quakers, Sarah was able to marry for love. Long held in private hands, the complete text of Hannah Callender Sanson's extraordinary diary is published here for the first time. In-depth interpretive essays, as well as explanatory footnotes, provide context for students and other readers. The diary is one of the earliest, fullest documents written by an American woman, and it provides fresh insights into women's experience in early America, the urban milieu of the emerging middle classes, and the culture that shaped both.

A Greene Country Towne

Author : Alan C. Braddock
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078928
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Greene Country Towne written by Alan C. Braddock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces. By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia—from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings—through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.