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Title

The storm gathering : the Penn family and the American Revolution / Lorett Treese.

Author

Treese, Lorett, 1952-

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992.

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Description

x, 245 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few may know what became of Penn's enterprise in the years after his death in 1718. And fewer still realize that Penn's descendants played an important, and increasingly unpopular, role in the coming of the American Revolution to Pennsylvania. The Storm Gathering, based on Penn family correspondence and other contemporary records, tells this fascinating story, focusing primarily on Thomas and John Penn.

Subject

• Penn family
• 1600-1775
• Pennsylvania > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "A Keystone book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. "Receive What Moneys Thou Canst Get In": The Penn Proprietorship -- 2. "Proprietary Affairs Suffer Much": The Penn Family in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 3. "To Kill Us All, and Burn the Town": The Paxton Boys -- 4. "Contentions and Squabbling": The Movement for Royal Government -- 5. "To Prevent a Stamp Duty Being Laid on America": Pennsylvania and the Stamp Act -- 6. "Greatest Confusion": The Personal Trials of John Penn -- 7. "Ungovernable Spirit of the Frontier": The Incident at Middle Creek -- 8. "The Storm Gathering": Pennsylvania and the Townshend Duties -- 9. "More Vexation and Uneasiness": The Connecticut Yankees in Pennsylvania, 1763-1773 -- 10. "A Fortune in the Clouds": The Dispute After the Death of Richard Penn Sr. -- 11. "So Glorious an Exertion of Public Virtue and Spirit": Opposing the Tea Act in Philadelphia -- 12. "Keeping Up the Flame": The Penns and Politics from 1774 to Lexington -- 13. "Surrounded with Many Vexations": The Penn Family and the Death of Thomas Penn -- 14. "A Difficult Card to Play": The Penns, Independence, and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 -- 15. "Very Alarming to the Inhabitants of Those Parts": Pennsylvania's Border Problems from 1774 to 1776 -- 16. "Calm Spectator of the Civil War": Pennsylvania as a Commonwealth, John Penn as Private Citizen -- 17. "Unjustly Deprived of Their Property": The Divestment Act of 1779 -- 18. "Without Repining What Is Out of Our Power": The Penns in the Wake of the American Revolution -- Appendix A: Condensed Penn Family Tree and Interests in the Proprietorship -- Appendix B: Chronology.

ISBN

027100858X

LCCN

^^^92005573^

OCLC

• 25552444
• SCSB-12101767

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library