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My Loyalist Origins
Author | : Herb Swartz |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1460274598 |
In a search for origins it is necessary to balance the facts, the What Ifs? and a healthy dose of the imagination. The facts include descriptions of historical realities, philosophical foundations and religious beliefs. The What Ifs? include the shadow side of reality when one ponders why this and not that, or how different the end result might have been, if! To imagine one's origins is to enter the world of dreams where all things are possible. In My Loyalist Origins I focus on what America was, what it became and what it is now. This includes the earliest explorations, the establishing of British colonies and the fight for independence. At every stage there are characters who stand out because of their strong convictions and others who belong in the shadows because their beliefs are not supported by their actions. Because this history is marked by periods of conflict I ask the question, "Do we as Christians have an obligation to offer an alternative to the claim that in order to 'have peace' we must 'go to war'"? As an Anabaptist Christian I hear Jesus saying, "blessed are the peace makers." Not only saying, but living out in his willingness to die for that truth." For the "Loyalists" this meant leaving hearth and home for a new life in a new place.
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia
Author | : E. Digby Baltzell |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351495348 |
Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.
Our Quaker Ancestors
Author | : Ellen T. Berry |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806311906 |
The Root Family
Author | : David D. Root |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
John Root was born in about 1774 in Schnedes, Germany. He married Barbara Lane in about 1794 in Virginia. They had twelve children. He married Louisa Barbara Hussong in 1838 in Montgomery County, Ohio. They had one child. He died in about 1846 in Miami County, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Indiana and Oklahoma.
Our Time in History
Author | : James Glenn Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Bible records |
ISBN | : |
Tangled Roots
Author | : Marcia Kemp Sterling |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632993570 |
A family saga of migration and striving, where historical fiction meets genealogy, brought to life through the voices of three young immigrants Set in the rich farmland of colonial Pennsylvania in 1750, this “history-comes-alive-in-fiction” narrative tells the first-person stories of Mary, her youthful passion constrained by tradition and family expectations; Alex, a Scots-Irish indentured servant who introduces her to secrets of the land and of the heart; and Matthew, Mary’s level-headed stepbrother who longs to win her affection. Set against the social issues of slavery, Native American oppression and indentured servitude, the novel is rich in historic detail and the search for love, justice and family in a new land. At the center of the story is an old family cross, brought back to Britain after the Third Crusade. Even as the unique histories of Mary, Alex, and Matthew shape their experience in the American colonies, so their futures are touched by the iconic cross that changed hands in the Holy Land during the Crusades, reemerging on a 17th-century plantation in Northern Ireland and yet again in the forest surrounding a small farm in Lancaster County at the edge of the Pennsylvania Colony.
Reading the Roots
Author | : Michael P. Branch |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780820325484 |
Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.