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The Map That Reveals the Deception of the 1737 Walking Purchase
Get PDFIn the summer of 1737 four Delaware sachems agreed to give the Pennsylvania proprietors land west of the Delaware River that could be traversed by a walker in a day and a half. When the Walking Purchase, as it became known, was executed in September, the young men hired as walkers by the proprietors traveled faster and further northwest than Delawares assumed they would. Delawares documented the events of the Walking Purchase, but their version of the story was quickly buried under the considerable weight of the official narrative—a tale based on actual events but with significant details skillfully obfuscated by the Penns and their agents. What actually happened would remain obscure if not for the existence of a fragile map that can be found in the Chew Family and the Penn Family Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. When examined in light of Delaware accounts, this map reveals how the Pennsylvania proprietors deceived the Delawares so they would agree to the purchase
Index: PMHB vol 136
No full textFile includes:Volume 136 ContentsHistorical Society of Pennsylvania Officers, Councilors, and Staff as of October 2012Index 2012USPS Statement of Ownership, Management and CirculationBook Advertisement: St. Peter\u27s Church: Faith in Action by Cordelia Frances Biddle, Elizabeth S. Browne, Alan J. Heavens, and Charles Peitz (Temple University Press)Book Advertisement: Prigg v. Pennsylvania Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution by H. Robert Baker (University Press of Kansas)Fellowships Deadline Announcments 2013-2014Call for Papers: Fall 2014 Special Issue -- Teaching Pennsylvania History
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BIography, Volume 136, Number 1, January 2012 (full issue)
No full textincludes the following articles:Strange, C. B. The Mason-Dixon and Proclamation LinesPencak, W. Free Health Care for the Poor: The Philadelphia DispensaryArnau, A The Evolution of Leadership within the Puerto Rican Community of Philadelphia
Free Health Care for the Poor: The Philadelphia Dispensary
Get PDFScholars have traced the American hospital\u27s development from last-resort refuge for the poor and dying in the eighteenth century to the principal health care institution for people of all classes by the early twentieth century. With the exception of Charles Rosenberg, how-ever, few have paid much attention to the dispensary, where far more of the urban poor received medical treatment than in hospitals during the same period.1 This study of the Philadelphia Dispensary traces its history through three periods
Newly Available and Processed Collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Get PDFWHAT FOLLOWS ARE DESCRIPTIONS of some of the collectionsat the Historical Society of Pennsylvania that have either beenacquired within the past year or more fully processed andtherefore are more available and accessible to researchers. Full finding aidsfor these processed collections, and many others, can be found online athttp://www.hsp.org/node/2044
Full Issue: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biograph 136(2) April 2012
No full textPennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 136, n. 2, April 201
Book Reviews (all)
No full textReviews of:DRAKE, The Nation\u27s Nature: How Continental Pre sumptions Gave Rise to theUnited States of America, by John R. GillisBENEKE and GRENDA, eds., The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America, by Janet Moore LindmanPROUD, ed., John Woolman and the Affairs of Truth: The Journalist\u27s Essays, Epistles, and Ephemera, by David L. CrosbyPONDER, American Independence: From "Common Sense" to the "Declaration," by Patrick LoebsHARSANYI, Lessons from America: Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798, by Matthew Rainbow HaleCOTLAR, Tom Paine\u27s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic, by Philipp ZiescheDENNIS, Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic, by Jon ParmenterGALLAGHER, The Union War, by Timothy J. Orr ORR, ed., Last to Leave the Field: The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers, by Daniel N. RolphSAYLOR, Soldiers to Governors: Pennsylvania\u27s Civil War Veterans Who Became State Leaders, by J. Adam RogersMCMURRY and VAN DOLSEN, eds., Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720–1920, by Charles BergengrenBAMBERG, Chatham Village: Pittsburgh\u27s Garden City, by John F. Bauman RYAN, AFSCME\u27s Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century, by John Hinsha