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'On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our men-servants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and guns, who had some time before been skulking about the fields, and watching an opportunity of our men’s absence, came furiously into the house...' Thus begins the story of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, 'taken in substance from her own mouth' by the English Quaker Samuel Bownas. This book contains the complete text of Bownas's 1760 edition, with an introduction and notes designed to explain the background to this extraordinary true story. For...

The first person to hang for witchcraft in Salem was Bridget Bishop. This is her story. It is also the larger story of the fear that caused otherwise intelligent persons to take leave of their senses and commit horrible acts in the name of preventing horrible acts. This book looks at Bridget Bishop the real person, not the idealized personification of her that so many have presented. It also looks at the attributes that made Bishop the ideal person to be the first to go to the gallows at Salem. In addition, this book considers why the execution of Bishop caused the floodgates of execution ...

Witches of America — Trivia, Folklore, History, Stories, Jokes, Games, Word Search & Crossword Puzzles, 6 BONUSES: #1 FAN TRIVIA from Witches of the World: Hocus Pocus, Harry Potter, Bewitched, Charmed, Wizard of OZ, Wicked... 🔥 Salem was only the beginning. The truth is stranger, scarier, funnier than you’ve ever imagined. 🔥 Everyone thinks they know America's witches. Salem witch trials, black hats, broomsticks, mysterious cauldrons bubbling. But that’s the myth. The reality? Witchcraft stories spread across the entire continent. From New England’s Puritan paranoia to ...

In the brutal American frontier of the 1740s, a land where beauty collides with savage ambition, young frontiersman Nathan Miller's world is shattered when the girls he secretly loves, Abigail Wilson and her younger sister Rebecca, are abducted in a brutal raid. What begins as a desperate pursuit fueled by innocent love quickly descends into a years-long odyssey, a relentless hunt through an unforgiving wilderness. As Nathan and his companions, including the quietly competent Renard LaFontaine, are relentlessly whittled away by the land and brutal conflict, Nathan undergoes a chilling ...

A man thought to be Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid are hardly the image we have of America's founders. In Newcomers, Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of American beginnings through the tale of Anthony "the Turk" and Grietje Reyniers. Married in Amsterdam, they arrived in 1630s Dutch New Amsterdam, hoping to forge a new life. Always outsiders in the young colony, they battled Dutch authorities, brawled with neighbors, and seized land from Native Americans.

Drawing on encounters between the Creeks of the Southeast and the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century, Savage Systers reveals a world in which Native women wielded power through means that shocked European observers: ritualized torture, scalp dances, brutal initiation rites, even infanticide and cannibalism. Far from aberrations, these acts embodied forms of feminine authority rooted deep in tribal culture. In deciding whether a captive lived or died, whether a stranger was rejected or absorbed, Native women determined the fate of peoples and nations.

“We could see nothing but a desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men. . . . What, then, could now sustain us but the Spirit of God and His grace?” William Bradford, 1620. After almost four hundred years, the exciting, inspiring, and remarkable history of Plymouth Plantation and the Pilgrims who established it is now available in an understandable, easy-to-read format, preserving this American classic for generations of young readers. Since its original publication in the 1600’s, William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation has remained a classic text of American history, ...

In 1740s colonial Maryland, a young woman's family tobacco plantation is failing due to the Crown's oppressive trade regulations. To save her family from ruin, the sharp and determined Eliza must navigate the treacherous world of Annapolis society, all while dealing with malicious rivals and a zealous new customs official. Her desperate situation leads her to the legendary "Chesapeake Raven," an elusive smuggler and a hero to the struggling colonists. Eliza is compelled to form a dangerous alliance with the Raven, whose true identity is revealed as the seemingly idle and detached gentleman,...

This book is an overview of the life and legacy of George Whitefield who ignited great Spiritual awakening on two continents and became the primary instrument of God in the Great Awakening that transformed Colonial America and gave birth to the United States of America.

Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. This special volume includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Delaware. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 7 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause. In this volume: John Dickinson: Penman of the Revolution Richard Bassett: Senator #1 Gunning Bedford Jr.: Constitution ...

At least one‑third of the colonial population were neutrals during the American Revolution, yet they have rarely featured in narratives that shape our ideas about the conflict. By following a single transatlantic family, the Crugers, historian Travis Glasson puts neutrals—the "nobody men"—at the center of this tumultuous period's history.

I am born on November 22, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. My name is Abigail Smith. Maybe my last name will change when I’m older. My family owns four slaves. Phoebe is a slave who takes care of me while I am a child. When I grow up, I want to teach our slaves to read and write, give them freedom, and pay them to work for me. I do not believe in slavery for men or ladies.

Do you want to learn about Abigail Adams but don’t have the time or patience to read a thick book? Then this short and concise book “Abigail Adams: First Lady of the United States” is for you!! During Abigail Adams’ long and productive life, she had many interesting adventures and made many contributions to the young American republic, including the following: One of the “founding mothers” of the United States of America. Acted as a political advisor to her husband while he served as ambassador, vice president, and president, for the United States. An early advocate for the ...

Have you ever wondered, "Who really was Thomas Jefferson?" History tells us he was a brilliant scholar, violinist, surveyor, astronomer, lawyer, planter, bibliophile, architect, founding father, statesman, governor of Virginia, ambassador to France, Secretary of State under George Washington, vice-president under John Adams, the third US president, scientist, natural philosopher, family man, and sage.

When people hear the word “witchcraft”, certain images come to mind. American history buffs will immediately think of Salem, where hysteria in the 17th century led to notorious trials that continue to be the source of several historical studies, with scholars analyzing things from every direction. Was it a religious fervor? Was it a land grab? Was there fungus in the grain? Over 400 years later, there are still fundamental questions regarding the complete breakdown of moral order that pinned friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor.

In this Second Edition of Pilgrims and Patriots, Dr. Eddie Hyatt ells the forgotten story of the radical Christians who laid the intellectual and moral foundations of the American republic. He shows clearly that they were not from the established churches of Europe. Instead, they were Radical Reformers who sought a return to the Christianity of the New Testament, and who envisioned a nation founded on faith and freedom. Hyatt shows the vital role of prayer in the founding of the nation, demonstrated by the numerous calls for prayer issued by the Continental Congress and by the daily prayers...

This book covers a period of a little more than three-quarters of a century. It begins with the first attempt at English colonization in America, in 1576, and ends with the year 1652, when the supremacy of Parliament was recognized throughout the English colonies. The most interesting period in the history of any country is the formative period; and through the mass of recently published original material on America the opportunity to tell its story well has been of late years greatly increased. In the preparation of this work I have endeavored to consult the original sources.

Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land, but they did so in very different ways. For Native Americans trade was a collective act. The alliances that made a people powerful became visible through material exchanges that forged connections among kin groups, villages, and the spirit world.

In the brutal crucible of the mid-18th century North American frontier, where the French and Indian War rages, emerges the gripping tale of Kittanning: A Baptism of Fire. This historical fiction thrusts Scottish-born surgeon Hugh Mercer into the heart of a devastating conflict: the Kittanning Raid of September 1756. A man of intellect and learning, Mercer finds his European sensibilities challenged by the raw savagery of frontier warfare and the moral complexities of a punitive expedition against the Lenape (Delaware) village of Kittanning. As whispers of retribution fill the stifling air ...

The Carrying Place located near The Mohawk River known as German Flats in upstate New York was first settled in 1723 by German Palatines. In 1750, Joshua Judd just eighteen was forced to kill his first Huron Indian after they killed his mother and father at his home far into the hills above German Flats. Alone, he traveled the ridge tops to reach German Flats, but little did he know, the killing would continue as he came across another lone cabin where two more settlers were brutality killed and scalped. Here he would find one survivor, Carrie Dunlop, who was his same age, and she too was ...