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"Rememb'ring Our Time and Work is the Lords"

Author : Karen Guenther

Publisher : Susquehanna University Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 50,54 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781575910932

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Book Description

Pennsylvania's role in the development of American culture and society has received an increasing amount of attention in the past two decades, as the tercentenary celebrations of the founding of the province led to a reexamination of the colony and state's contributions to the ethnic and religious diversity of modern America. With increasing pluralism, however, the religious group that was most prominent in the establishment of the province - the Society of Friends, or Quakers - declined in its impact and importance.









Colonial Philadelphians

Author : Hannah Benner Roach

Publisher : Genealogical Society of PA

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 48,57 MB

Release : 2007-08

Category : History

ISBN : 9781422367346

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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.