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I found this book to be captivating and exceptionally interesting. The photos are excellent and it captures the excitement of the history of the great city of Philadelphia through the years. Highly recommended!!!

This story is about a Polish girl named Anetka who is thirteen years old is immigrating to Lattimer, Pennsylvania. She hopes to find her true love of an American-Polish miner named Stanley who has three little girls. She loved him but, he doesn't love her back. His three girls hated Anetka. But in the end of the middle part, the three girls loved Anetka and Stanley, her husband died. Before Anetka was immigrated to America, she misses her Bacia( grandmother) at Sadowka, Poland.

This is one great book! One every collector and dealer will want to own! Not only is it packed full of wonderful photos of this beautiful Glassware, it also has a complete History of this wonderful Glass, as well as current values! It's a Must Have for anyone who Loves Fry Glassware!

An essential referance for any Civil War Library. The amount of facts and photos will not be found in any other work. Hopefully Mr. Hunt will come out with the other volumes in the series on a regular and shorter time frame. Kudos and thankyou Mr. Hunt.

These three volumes contain possibly the most authoritative collection of Pennsylvania genealogies ever assembled. The editor, John W. Jordan, was a celebrated historian as well as a genealogist, and, with his able assistants, among whom we find the great Warren S. Ely, he produced a work that is yet unmatched in scope and accuracy, covering fully 250 colonial and Revolutionary families in a series of independent genealogical narratives.

Extending from two or three pages to twenty and thirty pages or more, the genealogies generally commence with the known ancestors of the first Pennsylvania settler and proceed in the direct line of descent to representatives of the family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, touching, in this manner, on as many as seven or eight or more generations, each member of which is scrupulously accounted for by name, spouse, issue, and dates of birth, marriage, and death, surfacing again, in many cases, as the subject of a biographical essay.

The original publication contained a good many full-page portraits which, in the interest of economy, we have omitted in this reprint. But whereas the original work lacked a guide to contents, we have made good this deficiency, adding a table of contents to each volume. Below is a list of the families treated:

Abbot, Adams/Anshutz, Ashhurst, Ashton, Babcock/Badcocke, Baird, Balch, Ball, Ballard, Barnes, Beaver, Benners, Bevan, Biddle, Bigger, Bissell, Blaine, Blight, Blynn, Bodine, Boggs, Bonsall, Bosbyshell, Bournonville, Brackenridge, Brice, Brodhead, Brown, Bryden, Bunting, Burchfield, Burnham, Butler, Calvert, Carpenter, Carstairs, Cass, Cassatt, Chaplin, Chew, Childs, Clark, Comegys, Converse, Cooke, Corbin, Coyle, Craig, Crispin, Crowell, Curtin, Cuthbert, Darte, De Armit, Dechert, Decker, Denny, Derr, Diehl, Donaldson, Duane, Dupui, Eaton, Ellison, Emlen, Etting, Eveland, Fassett, Findley, Fisher, Flagg, Follansbee, Fox, Friend, Gilpin, Gleffer, Haddock, Haines, Hamill, Hamilton, Hart, Haseltine, Hays, Herron, Hewson, Heyl, Hillman, Holme, Horne, Horner, Houston, Howard, Hudson, Huff, Hunt, Irish, Irwin, Jeffries, Johnson, Jordan, Kendrick, Kennedy, Kent, Kimber, Kinney, Lammot, Larimer, Laughlin, Leaming, Lennig, Lindsay, Lloyd , Logan, Logue, Loughrey, Lovejoy, Lydick, Lyne, Lyon, Maclay, Madeira, Magee, Mann, Marshall, Marston, McCall, McCandless, McClintock, McCloud, McCully, McCurdy, McKean, McMasters, Mehard, Mercur, Merrill, Miller, Miner, Molten, Montgomery, Moon, Morris, Morrow, Mosier, Mowry, Mulford, Neale, Neff, Newhall, Nichols, Norris, O'Hara, Osbourn, Paine, Parker, Patton, Paulson, Pearson, Peet, Pemberton, Penn, Pennypacker, Pequignot, Perrin, Philips, Pinkerton, Plumly, Plumstead, Porter, Potter, Powell, Preston, Price, Purves, Putnam, Rawle, Rea, Reed, Reynolds, Richards, Ricketts, Riter, Robb, Robbins, Roberts, Robinson, Rouse, Ruffner, Rupp, Sailor, Samson, Sanderson, Sankey, Scott, Sellers, Semple, Serrill, Shattuck, Sheakley, Sheppard, Shippen, Shiras, Shoemaker, Shriver, Sill, Singer, Smith, Snowden, Sparhawk, Steel, Stevens, Stevenson, Sullivan, Swift, Thomas, Thorington, Tingley, Townsend, Turnbull, Tyson, Van Leer, Waddell/Smith, Wagner, Wainwright, Wallace, Waller, Waln, Walter, Ward, Warner, Weaver, Weitzel, Wells, Wentworth, Wharton, Whelen, Wiederseim, Wignall, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Willing, Wilson, Winsheimer, Wistar/Wister, Wister, Wurts, Wynne, and Yeates.

Below is a list of the families treated:

Abbot, Adams/Anshutz, Ashhurst, Ashton, Babcock/Badcocke, Baird, Balch, Ball, Ballard, Barnes, Beaver, Benners, Bevan, Biddle, Bigger, Bissell, Blaine, Blight, Blynn, Bodine, Boggs, Bonsall, Bosbyshell, Bournonville, Brackenridge, Brice, Brodhead, Brown, Bryden, Bunting, Burchfield, Burnham, Butler, Calvert, Carpenter, Carstairs, Cass, Cassatt, Chaplin, Chew, Childs, Clark, Comegys, Converse, Cooke, Corbin, Coyle, Craig, Crispin, Crowell, Curtin, Cuthbert, Darte, De Armit, Dechert, Decker, Denny, Derr, Diehl, Donaldson, Duane, Dupui, Eaton, Ellison, Emlen, Etting, Eveland, Fassett, Findley, Fisher, Flagg, Follansbee, Fox, Friend, Gilpin, Gleffer, Haddock, Haines, Hamill, Hamilton, Hart, Haseltine, Hays, Herron, Hewson, Heyl, Hillman, Holme, Horne, Horner, Houston, Howard, Hudson, Huff, Hunt, Irish, Irwin, Jeffries, Johnson, Jordan, Kendrick, Kennedy, Kent, Kimber, Kinney, Lammot, Larimer, Laughlin, Leaming, Lennig, Lindsay, Lloyd , Logan, Logue, Loughrey, Lovejoy, Lydick, Lyne, Lyon, Maclay, Madeira, Magee, Mann, Marshall, Marston, McCall, McCandless, McClintock, McCloud, McCully, McCurdy, McKean, McMasters, Mehard, Mercur, Merrill, Miller, Miner, Molten, Montgomery, Moon, Morris, Morrow, Mosier, Mowry, Mulford, Neale, Neff, Newhall, Nichols, Norris, O'Hara, Osbourn, Paine, Parker, Patton, Paulson, Pearson, Peet, Pemberton, Penn, Pennypacker, Pequignot, Perrin, Philips, Pinkerton, Plumly, Plumstead, Porter, Potter, Powell, Preston, Price, Purves, Putnam, Rawle, Rea, Reed, Reynolds, Richards, Ricketts, Riter, Robb, Robbins, Roberts, Robinson, Rouse, Ruffner, Rupp, Sailor, Samson, Sanderson, Sankey, Scott, Sellers, Semple, Serrill, Shattuck, Sheakley, Sheppard, Shippen, Shiras, Shoemaker, Shriver, Sill, Singer, Smith, Snowden, Sparhawk, Steel, Stevens, Stevenson, Sullivan, Swift, Thomas, Thorington, Tingley, Townsend, Turnbull, Tyson, Van Leer, Waddell/Smith, Wagner, Wainwright, Wallace, Waller, Waln, Walter, Ward, Warner, Weaver, Weitzel, Wells, Wentworth, Wharton, Whelen, Wiederseim, Wignall, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Willing, Wilson, Winsheimer, Wistar/Wister, Wister, Wurts, Wynne, and Yeates.

These three volumes contain possibly the most authoritative collection of Pennsylvania genealogies ever assembled. The editor, John W. Jordan, was a celebrated historian as well as a genealogist, and, with his able assistants, among whom we find the great Warren S. Ely, he produced a work that is yet unmatched in scope and accuracy, covering fully 250 colonial and Revolutionary families in a series of independent genealogical narratives.

Extending from two or three pages to twenty and thirty pages or more, the genealogies generally commence with the known ancestors of the first Pennsylvania settler and proceed in the direct line of descent to representatives of the family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, touching, in this manner, on as many as seven or eight or more generations, each member of which is scrupulously accounted for by name, spouse, issue, and dates of birth, marriage, and death, surfacing again, in many cases, as the subject of a biographical essay.

The original publication contained a good many full-page portraits which, in the interest of economy, we have omitted in this reprint. But whereas the original work lacked a guide to contents, we have made good this deficiency, adding a table of contents to each volume.

Botany became an important science during three centuries of European empire-building, from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Ships from England, France, the Netherlands, and Spain sailed to make discoveries in the service of storing up riches. Those riches weren't just precious metals such as New World gold. They were also luxuries whose sales made fortunes for peoples and empires. So Columbus sailed west, to break into successful spice-, silk- and dye-trading China, India and the Moluccas.

Riches were also made from garden and field plants, fruits, forest products, and flowers from Africa, the Americas, and the East and West Indies. So in 1494 Columbus brought sugarcane cuttings into the West Indies. That gave Spain a start on one of the world's most successful cash crops. Great fortunes awaited those who grew and handled non-native luxuries and cash crops such as cinnamon, cloves, coffee, maize, nutmeg, pepper, Peruvian bark, rubber, sugar, tea, and tobacco. Europeans needed to know what plants looked like and where they grew, to make sure they got the correct plants.

So botany grew hand-in-hand with European voyages. For science, settlement, and trade all drove collecting, classifying, and naming plants in the late 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, one reason behind Linnaeus classifying and naming plants was Sweden's standing in the world. His country needed to close their borders against a gold drain. Linnaeus' botanical contributions helped Swedish business and government choose which of the luxuries and cash crops grew in Sweden's climate and soils. What grew wouldn't have to be imported at high prices.

Editors Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, along with their contributing writers, offer readers a beautifully indexed, organized and written book. Their chapters give strong examples, facts, figures, historical illustrations, interpretations, and references. It's history. But what botanists, naturalists, planters, politicians, and traders did then affects us today. Seeds, plants, and cuttings were shipped, to become non-native exotics every which place but home. They were studied, pigeonholed, and named. But their natural settings and controls, such as diseases and pests, weren't. It wasn't naturally matching correct soil, correct plant, correct environment, correct controls. But, fortunately, science and its solutions have jumped way beyond the limits of COLONIAL BOTANY.

Colonial Germantown Mennonites by Leonard Gross and Jan Gleysteen takes the reader back to 1683, when some of the earliest Mennonites settled in Pennsylvania and began a place of worship that today is considered to be the first Mennonite church in the New World. The Mennonites, whose roots go back almost five centuries to the era of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, came to America for religious and economic freedom.
The book reveals the hardships encountered as these German-born pioneers settled in a new place in a completely different land and culture. Yet, in the midst of this complexity the Mennonites upheld their principles of peace and justice in multiple ways. They were intentional about their church's being an open place of worship for peoples from different backgrounds and denominations a multicultural community in Germantown that would transcend nations, culture, and language. They were the first people to sign an antislavery petition in 1668, a thought then considered absurd to much of broader Protestantism. Furthermore, the Germantown Mennonites peacefully interacted with Native Americans and modeled a promising approach to how Christians can live in harmony with one another.
Unique in this book is a section that pictorially paints Germantown in colorful fashion, allowing one to see the places where Colonial-era Mennonite and Brethren building sites still exist. Complete with photographs an map, the book also has a tour guide sections for anyone interested in seeing the historic town within Philadelphia where a community of believers first worshipped corporately in America.
"Simple, substantial, and beautiful." These words from a Lancaster County Mennonite preacher described the Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse, a symbol which serves today as a microcosm of core values for the Mennonite Church. Indeed, in a world today filled with religious fragmentation and cultural conflict, this book offers a realistic vision of what it means to love one's neighbor.

Mr. Wallace's studies of Philadelphia's colonial architectural legacy are a must for any self-respecting architect, preservationist, or metalsmith. This reprint is yet another credit to Dover's publishing effort.

Dr. Atwood writes a great work on this part of the Reformation involving Zinzendorf and the Moravian Church's struggle to discern their own faith issues during the Lutheran and Pietist period in Germany and Pennsylvania. Very honest and informative historical read for Christian and non-Christian reader alike.