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The storm gathering : the Penn family and the American Revolution / Lorett Treese.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992.Description: x, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 027100858X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F152 .T84 1992
Contents:
1. "Receive What Moneys Thou Canst Get In": The Penn Proprietorship -- 2. "Proprietary Affairs Suffer Much": The Penn Family in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 3. "To Kill Us All, and Burn the Town": The Paxton Boys -- 4. "Contentions and Squabbling": The Movement for Royal Government -- 5. "To Prevent a Stamp Duty Being Laid on America": Pennsylvania and the Stamp Act -- 6. "Greatest Confusion": The Personal Trials of John Penn -- 7. "Ungovernable Spirit of the Frontier": The Incident at Middle Creek -- 8. "The Storm Gathering": Pennsylvania and the Townshend Duties -- 9. "More Vexation and Uneasiness": The Connecticut Yankees in Pennsylvania, 1763-1773 -- 10. "A Fortune in the Clouds": The Dispute After the Death of Richard Penn Sr. -- 11. "So Glorious an Exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit": Opposing the Tea Act in Philadelphia -- 12. "Keeping Up the Flame": The Penns and Politics from 1774 to Lexington -- 13. "Surrounded with Many Vexations": The Penn Family and the Death of Thomas Penn -- 14. "A Difficult Card to Play": The Penns, Independence, and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 -- 15. "Very Alarming to the Inhabitants of Those Parts": Pennsylvania's Border Problems from 1774 to 1776 -- 16. "Calm Spectator of the Civil War": Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth, John Penn as Private Citizen -- 17. "Unjustly Deprived of Their Property": The Divestment Act of 1779 -- 18. "Without Repining What Is Out of Our Power": The Penns in the Wake of the American Revolution -- Appendix A: Condensed Penn Family Tree and Interests in the Proprietorship -- Appendix B: Chronology.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F152.T84 1992 1 Available 33710000854294

"A Keystone book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

1. "Receive What Moneys Thou Canst Get In": The Penn Proprietorship -- 2. "Proprietary Affairs Suffer Much": The Penn Family in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 3. "To Kill Us All, and Burn the Town": The Paxton Boys -- 4. "Contentions and Squabbling": The Movement for Royal Government -- 5. "To Prevent a Stamp Duty Being Laid on America": Pennsylvania and the Stamp Act -- 6. "Greatest Confusion": The Personal Trials of John Penn -- 7. "Ungovernable Spirit of the Frontier": The Incident at Middle Creek -- 8. "The Storm Gathering": Pennsylvania and the Townshend Duties -- 9. "More Vexation and Uneasiness": The Connecticut Yankees in Pennsylvania, 1763-1773 -- 10. "A Fortune in the Clouds": The Dispute After the Death of Richard Penn Sr. -- 11. "So Glorious an Exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit": Opposing the Tea Act in Philadelphia -- 12. "Keeping Up the Flame": The Penns and Politics from 1774 to Lexington -- 13. "Surrounded with Many Vexations": The Penn Family and the Death of Thomas Penn -- 14. "A Difficult Card to Play": The Penns, Independence, and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 -- 15. "Very Alarming to the Inhabitants of Those Parts": Pennsylvania's Border Problems from 1774 to 1776 -- 16. "Calm Spectator of the Civil War": Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth, John Penn as Private Citizen -- 17. "Unjustly Deprived of Their Property": The Divestment Act of 1779 -- 18. "Without Repining What Is Out of Our Power": The Penns in the Wake of the American Revolution -- Appendix A: Condensed Penn Family Tree and Interests in the Proprietorship -- Appendix B: Chronology.