Author: Gilbert CopePublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Genealogy of the Sharpless Family
Author: Gilbert CopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Its People
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delaware County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Genealogy of the Sharpless Family, Descended from John and Jane Sharples, Settlers Near Chester, Pennsylvania, 1682
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Sharples (d.1685) married Jane Moor and, as Quakers, the family emigrated in 1682 from England to land in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Descendants (spelling the surname Sharpless) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England to the 1200s A.D.
The Killing of John Sharpless
Author: Stephanie HooverPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625841264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Pennsylvania historian “deftly investigates turn-of-the-century law (such as it was) to find fresh answers” in a controversial 19th century murder (Main Line Today). On a stormy November evening in 1885, John Sharpless answered a knock on his door. Less than an hour later, he was found dead in his barn from a blow to the back of the head; his bloodstained hat lay next to him on the ground. A three thousand dollar reward for the killer sparked an overzealous bounty hunt across southeastern Pennsylvania, and numerous innocent men were arrested. Samuel Johnson—a local African American man with a criminal record—was charged. Despite the Widow Sharpless’s insistence that Johnson was not the man who had come to their door, he was tried and sentenced to hang. Author Stephanie Hoover offers an in-depth investigation of the crime. From the events of that night and the mishandling of the investigation by a corrupt police force to the trial and conviction of Johnson and the efforts of the Quaker community to appeal the sentence, Hoover profiles a miscarriage of justice in Delaware County. Includes photos
Genealogy of the Sharpless Family, Descended from John and Jane Sharples, Settlers Near Chester, Pennsylvania, 1682, Together with Some Account of the English Ancestry of the Family, Including the Researches by Henry Fishwick, P.H.S., and the Late Joseph Lemuel Chester;and a Full Report of the Bi-centennial Reunion of 1882
Author: Gilbert CopePublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Coombs Family History
Author: Publisher: Copyright held by Jan Gregoire Coombs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book traces the history of immigrants from the British Isles who settled in New England and Virginia, and whose progeny were among the first settlers in Wisconsin.
Our Quaker Ancestors
Author: Ellen T. BerryPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806311906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of John & Mary Palmer of Concord, Chester (now Delaware) Co., Pa. ...
Author: Lewis PalmerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley
Author: Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of MassachusettsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198021674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Americans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a profound cultural impact (and why more so in Pennsylvania and America than in England); and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system can tell us about American family ideology. ______ Who were the Northwest British Quakers and why did their family system so impress English, French, and New England reformers--Voltaire, Crevecouer, Brissot, Emerson, George Bancroft, Lydia Maria Child, and Lousia May Alcott, to name just a few? To answer this question, Levy tells the story of a large group of Quaker farmers from their development of a new family and communal life in England in the 1650s to their emigration and experience in Pennsylvania between 1681 and 1790. The book is thus simultaneously a trans-Atlantic community study of the migration and transplantation of ordinary British peoples in the tradition of Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village; the story of the formation and development of a major Anglo-American faith; and an exploration of the origins of American family ideology.
