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Footnotes Since the Wilderness features United States history from its colonial inception through the end of the nineteenth century.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness Chapters of an America past.

English - American History, Colonial America, Revolutionary America
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Henry Colin Campbell, the Cranford Torch Murderer

The body was found-- either charred, or still ablaze, depending on the imagination of the local beat writer-- just off the road near Cranford, New Jersey. Discovered in a snow bank, the corpse had a hole blown in its skull. The woman’s clothes had been soaked in gasoline.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Leisler’s Rebellion, and FootNotes Since the Wilderness on History News Network

Yes! FootNotes Since the Wilderness has made the United States History section of Cliopatria's History Blogroll at the category-leader, the celebrated History News Network.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Special Event: Family Day at Ephrata Cloister!

Ephrata Cloister, a National Historic Landmark, is open for tours, special programs, and on-going research opportunities.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Native Americans Traded Wampum from a New Jersey Factory

Irish settlers in colonial New Jersey made wampum belts, pipes and beads until the late 1800's. John Jacob Astor traded the wampum for Plains Indian furs.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Winu Gischuch, the Ripe Corn Moon Festival, at Historic New Bridge Landing

Built in 1752 by merchant Jan Zabriskie, the Steuben House witnessed the crossing of General George Washington and the American garrison of Fort Lee across the Hackensack River during their infamous November 20, 1776 retreat.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

George Washington Mobilized the Monks of Ephrata for the American Revolution

They approached from different angles, but the radical mystic Protestant theosophists of Ephrata and the evolving Enlightenment Age politicians of the emerging United States met at meaningful points.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

George Washington Pardons Traitor Michael Widman

Reverend Peter Miller of the Ephrata Cloister taught George Washington a lesson in charity and the humane treatment of prisoners and criminals.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Heads on Poles in Boston Common

Sagamore John comes in, brings Mattoonus and his sonne prisoner. Mattoonus shot to death the same day by John's men.
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Woman in the Wilderness and Ephrata Cloister

Early German immigrants to the lower counties made Pennsylvania a very interesting place. Footnotes will be rooting around in the history of the radical German sectarians and, in particular, those connected in various ways to the communes of The Chapter of Perfection, more commonly known as The Woma
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Footnotes Since the Wilderness · 1Y ago

Caspar Wistar’s Quit-Rent: One Red Rose

Caspar Wistar may be best remembered for the glass factory but, outside of William Penn, who was the largest private owner of acreage on the world, Caspar Wistar became the largest landowner in the region. Wistar was, in fact, America's first real estate tycoon.
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