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The Pennsylvania Assembly's Conflict with the Penns, 1754-1768
Liberty University “The Jaws of Proprietary Slavery”: The Pennsylvania Assembly’s Conflict With the Penns, 1754-1768 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the History Department in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Steven Deyerle Lynchburg, Virginia March, 2013 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Liberty or Security: Outbreak of Conflict Between the Assembly and Proprietors ......9 Chapter 2: Bribes, Repeals, and Riots: Steps Toward a Petition for Royal Government ..............33 Chapter 3: Securing Privilege: The Debates and Election of 1764 ...............................................63 Chapter 4: The Greater Threat: Proprietors or Parliament? ...........................................................90 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................113 1 Introduction In late 1755, the vituperative Reverend William Smith reported to his proprietor Thomas Penn that there was “a most wicked Scheme on Foot to run things into Destruction and involve you in the ruins.” 1 The culprits were the members of the colony’s unicameral legislative body, the Pennsylvania Assembly (also called the House of Representatives). The representatives held a different opinion of the conflict, believing that the proprietors were the ones scheming, in order to “erect their desired Superstructure of despotic Power, and reduce to -
The Inventory of the Ralph Ingersoll Collection #113
The Inventory of the Ralph Ingersoll Collection #113 Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center John Ingersoll 1625-1684 Bedfordshire, England Jonathan Ingersoll 1681-1760 Connecticut __________________________________________ Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll Jared Ingersoll 1713-1788 1722-1781 Ridgefield, Connecticut Stampmaster General for N.E Chaplain Colonial Troops Colonies under King George III French and Indian Wars, Champlain Admiralty Judge Grace Isaacs m. Jonathan Ingersoll Baron J.C. Van den Heuvel Jared Ingersoll, Jr. 1770-1823 1747-1823 1749-1822 Lt. Governor of Conn. Member Const. Convention, 1787 Judge Superior and Supreme Federalist nominee for V.P., 1812 Courts of Conn. Attorney General Presiding Judge, District Court, PA ___ _____________ Grace Ingersoll Charles Anthony Ingersoll Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll m. Margaret Jacob A. Charles Jared Ingersoll Joseph Reed Ingersoll Zadock Pratt 1806- 1796-1860 1789-1872 1790-1878 1782-1862 1786-1868 Married General Grellet State=s Attorney, Conn. State=s Attorney, Conn. Dist. Attorney, PA U.S. Minister to England, Court of Napoleon I, Judge, U.S. District Court U.S. Congress U.S. Congress 1850-1853 Dept. of Dedogne U.S. Minister to Russia nom. U.S. Minister to under Pres. Polk France Charles D. Ingersoll Charles Robert Ingersoll Colin Macrae Ingersoll m. Julia Helen Pratt George W. Pratt Judge Dist. Court 1821-1903 1819-1903 New York City Governor of Conn., Adjutant General, Conn., 1873-77 Charge d=Affaires, U.S. Legation, Russia, 1840-49 Theresa McAllister m. Colin Macrae Ingersoll, Jr. Mary E. Ingersoll George Pratt Ingersoll m. Alice Witherspoon (RI=s father) 1861-1933 1858-1948 U.S. Minister to Siam under Pres. -
Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery
Documenting the University of Pennsylvania’s Connection to Slavery Clay Scott Graubard The University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2019 April 19, 2018 © 2018 CLAY SCOTT GRAUBARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DOCUMENTING PENN’S CONNECTION TO SLAVERY 1 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 OVERVIEW 3 LABOR AND CONSTRUCTION 4 PRIMER ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA 5 EBENEZER KINNERSLEY (1711 – 1778) 7 ROBERT SMITH (1722 – 1777) 9 THOMAS LEECH (1685 – 1762) 11 BENJAMIN LOXLEY (1720 – 1801) 13 JOHN COATS (FL. 1719) 13 OTHERS 13 LABOR AND CONSTRUCTION CONCLUSION 15 FINANCIAL ASPECTS 17 WEST INDIES FUNDRAISING 18 SOUTH CAROLINA FUNDRAISING 25 TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA 31 WILLIAM ALLEN (1704 – 1780) AND JOSEPH TURNER (1701 – 1783): FOUNDERS AND TRUSTEES 31 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 – 1790): FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND TRUSTEE 32 EDWARD SHIPPEN (1729 – 1806): TREASURER OF THE TRUSTEES AND TRUSTEE 33 BENJAMIN CHEW SR. (1722 – 1810): TRUSTEE 34 WILLIAM SHIPPEN (1712 – 1801): FOUNDER AND TRUSTEE 35 JAMES TILGHMAN (1716 – 1793): TRUSTEE 35 NOTE REGARDING THE TRUSTEES 36 FINANCIAL ASPECTS CONCLUSION 37 CONCLUSION 39 THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S CONNECTION TO SLAVERY 40 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 42 BIBLIOGRAPHY 43 DOCUMENTING PENN’S CONNECTION TO SLAVERY 2 INTRODUCTION DOCUMENTING PENN’S CONNECTION TO SLAVERY 3 Overview The goal of this paper is to present the facts regarding the University of Pennsylvania’s (then the College and Academy of Philadelphia) significant connections to slavery and the slave trade. The first section of the paper will cover the construction and operation of the College and Academy in the early years. As slavery was integral to the economy of British North America, to fully understand the University’s connection to slavery the second section will cover the financial aspects of the College and Academy, its Trustees, and its fundraising. -
PEAES Guide: the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
PEAES Guide: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania http://www.librarycompany.org/Economics/PEAESguide/hsp.htm Keyword Search Entire Guide View Resources by Institution Search Guide Institutions Surveyed - Select One The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-732-6200 http://www.hsp.org Overview: The entries in this survey highlight some of the most important collections, as well as some of the smaller gems, that researchers will find valuable in their work on the early American economy. Together, they are a representative sampling of the range of manuscript collections at HSP, but scholars are urged to pursue fruitful lines of inquiry to locate and use the scores of additional materials in each area that is surveyed here. There are numerous helpful unprinted guides at HSP that index or describe large collections. Some of these are listed below, especially when they point in numerous directions for research. In addition, the HSP has a printed Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP: Philadelphia, 1991), which includes an index of proper names; it is not especially helpful for searching specific topics, item names, of subject areas. In addition, entries in the Guide are frequently too brief to explain the richness of many collections. Finally, although the on-line guide to the manuscript collections is generally a reproduction of the Guide, it is at present being updated, corrected, and expanded. This survey does not contain a separate section on land acquisition, surveying, usage, conveyance, or disputes, but there is much information about these subjects in the individual collections reviewed below. -
SUSSEX County
NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office Page 1 of 9 New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places Last Update: 9/28/2021 SUSSEX County Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Lackawanna Cutoff SUSSEX County Historic District (ID#3454) SHPO Opinion: 3/22/1994 Also located in: Andover Borough MORRIS County, Roxbury Township Andover Borough Historic District (ID#2591) SUSSEX County, Andover Borough SHPO Opinion: 10/22/1991 SUSSEX County, Andover Township SUSSEX County, Green Township 20 Brighton Avenue (ID#3453) SUSSEX County, Hopatcong Borough 20 Brighton Avenue SUSSEX County, Stanhope Borough SHPO Opinion: 9/11/1996 WARREN County, Blairstown Township WARREN County, Frelinghuysen Township Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Lackawanna Cutoff WARREN County, Knowlton Township Historic District (ID#3454) SHPO Opinion: 3/22/1994 Morris Canal (ID#2784) See Main Entry / Filed Location: Existing and former bed of the Morris Canal SUSSEX County, Byram Township NR: 10/1/1974 (NR Reference #: 74002228) SR: 11/26/1973 Hole in the Wall Stone Arch Bridge (ID#2906) SHPO Opinion: 4/27/2004 Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Railroad Sussex Branch over the (Extends from the Delaware River in Phillipsburg Town, Morris and Susses Turnpike west of US Route 206, north of Whitehall Warren County to the Hudson River in Jersey City, Hudson SHPO Opinion: 4/18/1995 County. SHPO Opinion extends period of significance for canal to its 1930 closure.) Pennsylvania-New Jersey Interconnection Bushkill to Roseland See Main Entry / Filed Location: Transmission -
The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family [Microform] / by Charles Burleigh
THE GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF THE GUILD, GUILE, AND GILE FAMILY. BY CHARLIES BURLEIGH. *« \ — " "Honor thy father and thy mother." Exodua 20: 12. Honor and shame from no condition rise; — Act well yonr part; there all the honor lies." Pope's Essay on Man. t PORTLAND, ME.: BKOWN THUKSTON & COMPANY. 1887. c£w > v • * • * • * • mmSßDmm I i^Kiift? THE GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF THE GUILD, GUILE, AND GILE FAMILY. BY CHARLIES BURLEIGH. *« \ — " "Honor thy father and thy mother." Exodua 20: 12. Honor and shame from no condition rise; — Act well yonr part; there all the honor lies." Pope's Essay on Man. t PORTLAND, ME.: BKOWN THUKSTON & COMPANY. 1887. c£w > v 1 ¦* <• .5» CONTENTS. PAGE Author's Preface 9 Introduction *2 The name inEngland and Scotland 2 < Rev. William Guild, d.d 22 English Notes 24 ' Posterity of John Guild, of Dedham 25 Second Generation 26 Third Generation 27 Fourth Generation 36 Fifth Generation 60 Sixth Generation 104 Seventh Generation l6S Eighth Generation 212 Posterity of Samuel Guile, of Haverhill, Mass 221 Second Generation. 223 Third Generation 224 Fourth Generation •• 227 Fifth Generation : 237 Sixth Generation. 2^S Seventh Generation 294 Eighth Generation 3*4 Ninth Generation 3*7 Miscellaneous 3*9 Marriages 322 Corrections and Additions 325 Index ——John, of Dedham 3*7 Index — Samuel, of Haverhill 338 Index — Allother Names 344 Index Places 375 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Six Coats-of-Arms, intwo plates Frontispiece Charles Burleigh, Portland, Maine 9 House of John Guild, Dedham, Mass., 1637 23 Samuel Guild, Roxbury, Mass "4 Chester Guild, Somerville, Mass "6 Benjamin F. -
08-1521 Mcdonald V. Chicago (06/28/2010)
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2009 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 08–1521. Argued March 2, 2010—Decided June 28, 2010 Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. ___, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense and struck down a Dis- trict of Columbia law that banned the possession of handguns in the home. Chicago (hereinafter City) and the village of Oak Park, a Chi- cago suburb, have laws effectively banning handgun possession by almost all private citizens. After Heller, petitioners filed this federal suit against the City, which was consolidated with two related ac- tions, alleging that the City’s handgun ban has left them vulnerable to criminals. They sought a declaration that the ban and several re- lated City ordinances violate the Second and Fourteenth Amend- ments. Rejecting petitioners’ argument that the ordinances are un- constitutional, the court noted that the Seventh Circuit previously had upheld the constitutionality of a handgun ban, that Heller had explicitly refrained from opining on whether the Second Amendment applied to the States, and that the court had a duty to follow estab- lished Circuit precedent. -
Charles Ingersoll: the ^Aristocrat As Copperhead
Charles Ingersoll: The ^Aristocrat as Copperhead HE INGERSOLL FAMILY is one of America's oldest. The first Ingersoll came to America in 1629, just nine years after the T^Mayflower. The first Philadelphia Ingersoll was Jared Inger- soll, who came to the city in 1771 as presiding judge of the King's vice-admiralty court. Previously, he had been the King's colonial agent and stamp master in Connecticut. During the Revolution, Jared remained loyal to the Crown. He stayed in Philadelphia for the first two years of the war, but in 1777, when he and other Tories were forced to leave, he returned to Connecticut, where he lived quietly until his death in 1781.1 Jared's son, Jared, Jr., was the first prominent Philadelphia Inger- soll. He came to Philadelphia with his father in 1771, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1778. Unlike his father, Jared, Jr., wholeheartedly supported the Revolution. Subsequently, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a member of the city council, city solicitor, attorney general of Pennsylvania, and United States District Attorney. Politically, he was an ardent Fed- eralist, but politics and affairs of state were never his prime interest; his real interest was the law, and most of his time and energy was devoted to his legal practice.2 Jared, Jr.'s, son, Charles Jared Ingersoll, was probably the most interesting of the Philadelphia Ingersolls. Like his father, grand- father, and most of the succeeding generations of Ingersolls, Charles Jared was a lawyer. He began a practice in Philadelphia in 1802, but devoted much of his time to politics. -
The Movement for the Reformation of Manners, 1688-1715
THE MOVEMENT FOR THE REFORMATION OF MANNERS, 1688-1715 ANDREW GORDON CRAIG 1980 (reset and digitally formatted 2015) PREFACE TO THE 2015 VERSION This study was completed in the pre-digital era and since then has been relatively inaccessible to researchers. To help rectify that, the 1980 typescript submitted for the degree of PhD from Edinburgh University has been reset and formatted in Microsoft “Word” and Arial 12pt as an easily readable font and then converted to a read-only PDF file for circulation. It is now more compact than the original typescript version and fully searchable. Some minor typographical errors have been corrected but no material published post-1980 has been added except in the postscript (see below). Pagination in the present version does not correspond to the original because of computerised resetting of the text. Footnotes in this version are consecutive throughout, rather than chapter by chapter as required in the 1980 version. The original bound copy is lodged in Edinburgh University Library. A PDF scan of it is available at https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk /bitstream/handle/1842/6840/254333.pdf A further hand-corrected copy is available together with my research archive in the Special Collections Department at St Andrews University Library. http://www.st- andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/ A note for researchers interested in the movement for the reformation of manners 1688-1715 and afterwards has been added as a postscript which lists other studies which have utilised this work and its sources in various ways. I am grateful to the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for its generous scholarship support while a research student at Edinburgh University undertaking this study in the 1970s and to the following for their encouragement, guidance and support during the creation and completion of this research. -
Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention
ij >vl-C>6<£ Jl PROCEEDINGS. OT TH1 DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, WHICH ASSERaOBOLESD' AT LEWISTOWN, ©N Wednesday, *Way ®tk, IS 85* HARRISBURG: PRINTED BY CRABB dr BARRETT, £@35. A The delegates elected from the different counties of the common¬ wealth assembled at Levvistown on Wednesday, the 6th of May, 1835. On motion, Col. JOHN DICKEY, of Beaver, was called to the chair, and Andrew G. Miller, of Adams, H. G. Rogers, of Alleg¬ heny, and Henry Shoemaker, of the city of Philadelphia, Were ap¬ pointed Secretaries, for the purpose of organizing the convention. Pursuant to a resolution, the counties were called in alphabetical order, and the following named delegates appeared, presented their Credentials and took their seats: Adams.—Zephaniah Herbert, A. G. Miller, Thos. McCreery. Allegheny.—/Absalom Morris, Win. Caven, Patrick Mulvany, IX. G. Rogers, Linton Rogers. Armstrong.—Robert Robinson. Senatorial—David Reynolds. Beaver.—Jcfhn Dickey, John M. Lukens. Bedford.— James Patton. Berks.—Thomas Morris, Mark Darrah, Jacob Geehr, William Fisher, Le¬ wis W. Richards. Bradford 8f Tioga—Samuel Weeks, Dr. D. L. Scott. Senatorial—Dr. Seth Salisbury. Bucks.—Gen. S. A. Smith, David Todd, Hervey Matthias, John Comfort, Jr. Butler.—James Potts, jr. Senatorial—Samttel A. Gilmore. Centre fy Clearheld.—Dr. Constans Curten, Col. George Hubler. Senatorial —Thomas Hemphill. Chester.—John Morgan, Joseph Maekleduff, David Furey, Robert Cowan, Joseph Hemphill, ji. Columbia—John F. Derr, Col. Frederick Shirtz. Crawford.—'William McLaughlin. Senatorial—Samuel W. Magill. Cumberland.—Charles B. Penrose, Hugh Wallace. Senatorial—George Beaver. Dauphin.—John C. Bucher, Jacob Seal. Delaware.—Wm. B. Sill, A. T. Dick. Brie.—Henry Colt. -
Annual Report for the Town of Duxbury for the Year Ending
: ANNUAL REPORT il. OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OP THE TOWN OF DUXBURY FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAE ENDING FEBRUARY 18, 1869. PLYMOUTH W. W. AVERY, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, Corner of Court and North Streets, 1869. REPORT. In accordance with a vote of tlie town, tlie Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor, submit their Annual Eeport of Receipts and expenditures of the Town of Duxbury, for the year ending Feb. 18th, 1869 : Account with the several School Districts. 1 Balance Assm't Rec'd Amount District. Balance Prudential Committee. from for from TOTAT.. of due. 1867. 18C8. School Orders 1No. Com. drawn* 1 Wm. J. Alden, $0.14: $227.93 30.00 258.07 $140.20 117.87 2 Micah A. Soule, 95.19 295.89 30.00 421.08 222.50 198.58 3 Perez Loring, 104.13 236.42 30.00 370.55 202.83 -167.72 4 Levi Ford, 11.55 250.58 30.00 292.13 190.25 101.88 5 Robert T.Raudall, 45.02 179.80 24.00 248.82 120.00 128.82 6 Henry T. Whiting, 24.14 145.82 20.00 189.96 129.55 60.41 7 Samuel Atwell, 21.78 205.29 26.00 253.07 94.86 158.21 8 Alden Cushman, 154.31 24.00 178.31 169.56 8.75 9 Augustus Weston, 9.67 100.50 18.00 128.17 60.00 68.17 10 Luther Sherman, 12.68 114.66 22.00 149.34 80.00 69.34 11 Augustus Graves, 20.05 185.46 24.00 229.51 166.50 63.01 12 Nathan C. -
The Democratic Party and the Transformation of American Conservatism, 1847-1860
PRESERVING THE WHITE MAN’S REPUBLIC: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM, 1847-1860 Joshua A. Lynn A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History. Chapel Hill 2015 Approved by: Harry L. Watson William L. Barney Laura F. Edwards Joseph T. Glatthaar Michael Lienesch © 2015 Joshua A. Lynn ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Joshua A. Lynn: Preserving the White Man’s Republic: The Democratic Party and the Transformation of American Conservatism, 1847-1860 (Under the direction of Harry L. Watson) In the late 1840s and 1850s, the American Democratic party redefined itself as “conservative.” Yet Democrats’ preexisting dedication to majoritarian democracy, liberal individualism, and white supremacy had not changed. Democrats believed that “fanatical” reformers, who opposed slavery and advanced the rights of African Americans and women, imperiled the white man’s republic they had crafted in the early 1800s. There were no more abstract notions of freedom to boundlessly unfold; there was only the existing liberty of white men to conserve. Democrats therefore recast democracy, previously a progressive means to expand rights, as a way for local majorities to police racial and gender boundaries. In the process, they reinvigorated American conservatism by placing it on a foundation of majoritarian democracy. Empowering white men to democratically govern all other Americans, Democrats contended, would preserve their prerogatives. With the policy of “popular sovereignty,” for instance, Democrats left slavery’s expansion to territorial settlers’ democratic decision-making.