Author: Kenneth Clarke
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ISBN: 9781716667909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Simeon and Katharine Prior were married 10 months before the end of the American Revolution and for twenty years they made a life in New England, where their ancestors had lived since 1634. And then in 1802, Simeon having heard about the land beyond the Ohio during his service in the American Revolution, suddenly traded his land for a track of wilderness identified only as lot 25 in the Connecticut Western Reserve. He along with Katharine and their ten children spent more than forty days traveling to their new home on America's western frontier. The Prior Family established their settlement in 1802. And then almost nobody else settled in this remote location of the Cuyahoga Valley wilderness, directly adjacent to Indian territory, until after the Treaty of Fort Industry was signed. between the United States and the Indian nations of Wyandot (Huron), Ottawa, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Munsee, Lenape (Delaware), Potawatomi, and Shawnee on July 4, 1805. Significant numbers of settlers did not arrive until after the War of 1812. For the Priors, this meant their isolation at the edge of the frontier continued for ten years after their arrival. Simeon's musings about what lead him and Katharine to move their family into what they knew to be harm's way is poignant: "What of the many chances against us and should we survive the perils of the boisterous lake and the distressing sickness usually attendant in a new settlement, we might fall before the tomahawk and scalping knife, for well I knew that many a settlement was established in blood." Going further back in this family's history, it is sobering to think about what has transpired in the 385 years since these first pioneer families arrived on the shores of what is now the United States. The New World that the first colonists and their offspring found was a fundamentally difficult and generally violent place all the way up until after the Spanish-American War of 1898, when the American military finally began to focus outside of its borders. Bloody conflicts large and small on American soil between rival colonial powers, rival colonies, communities, neighbors, and indigenous peoples all shaped the colonial era and the first hundred years of United States history. To paint this span of time with a single brush that portrays in simplistic terms what happened or how people thought and behaved is astonishingly deceptive. What is amazing is that anyone survived at all. But survive they did.
Author: Russell J. Baines
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0956155804
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Within a distant time within a distant place a young, orphaned Prince Ulrick dreams of adventure beyond the palace walls. Yet he is unaware of the plot to have him killed before he can rightly take his place upon his father's throne. Ulrick's vile uncle, King Huntro, plans to keep the throne for himself. When Ulrick was but a babe Huntro made a pact with a souless creature made of metal with a furnace for a heart, a being Known as Man Chine. The pact was a simple one in return for killing Ulrick Huntro would set about discovering the identity of the last Enchantress, the only one Man Chine feared. A daughter of the forest called Nature. On discovering his uncle's betrayal Ulrick sets out to find the fabled Nature and discovers a world beyond his wildest imaginings, a world of magic and dragons and an evil of steel and fire which threatens to consume the world...
Author: Maia Chance
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0425271641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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From the author of Cinderella Six Feet Under, a beauty must solve a beastly murder. Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax knows how to win over an audience. That’s why she’s accepted the marriage proposal of the brutish Comte de Griffe to nettle her occasional investigative partner—and romantic sparring partner—the pompous if dashing Professor Penrose. But with his boorish table manners, wild mane of hair, and habit of prowling away the wee hours, the comte has shredded Ophelia’s last nerve. She intends to disengage from her feral fiancé at his winter hunting party—until Penrose, his lovely new fiancée, and a stagecoach of stranded travelers arrive at the comte’s sprawling château. Soon she can’t tell the boars from the bores. When one of the guests is found clawed and bloody in the orangerie, Ophelia is determined to solve the murder before everyone starts believing the local version of Beauty and the Beast. But until the snows melt, she can’t trust her eyes—or her heart—since even the most civilized people hold beastly secrets...
Author: August von Kotzebue
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: August von Kotzebue
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Category : German drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Author: Elba L. Branigin
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Category : Johnson County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Author: Albert Smith
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Category : Peterborough (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Author: Central Provinces (India)
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Author: Lois Green Carr
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural techniques, the upbringing of children, neighborhood relationships and community formation, and the role of religion. The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America. Along with Cole's will, it serves as the framework around which the authors build their analysis. Drawing on these and other records, they present Cole as an exemplar of the ordinary planter whose success created the capital base for the slave-based plantation society of the eighteenth century.
Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people—often disrespectful, disorderly, presumptuous, insistent, and defiant—were drawn to the ideology of the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s that stressed equality, independence, and property rights. The backcountry settlers pushed the emerging nation’s political culture in a more radical direction than many of their leaders or the Founding Fathers preferred and helped put a democratic imprint on the new nation. This accessibly written book will resonate with all those interested in the social and political relationships of early America.
