A Lenape among the Quakers : The Life of Hannah Freeman /

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On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency-a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, h...

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Autor principal: Marsh, Dawn G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Freeman, Hannah, > 1730-1802.
Quakers > Missions.
Delaware women.
Delaware Indians > Missions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Quakers > Missions > Pennsylvanie > Chester (Comte)
Femmes delaware > Pennsylvanie > Chester (Comte) > Biographies.
Quakers > Missions > Pennsylvania > Chester County.
Delaware Indians > Missions > Pennsylvania > Chester County.
Delaware women > Pennsylvania > Chester County > Biography.
Pennsylvania > Chester County.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
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Sumario:On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency-a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn's "peaceable kingdom" preserved. A Lenape among the Quakers reconstructs Hannah Freeman's history, traveling from the days of her grandmothers before European settleme
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780803254183

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