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Rice, Abigail Hartman |
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RG1.B10.F10 - Research materials
[tertiary source] Abigail Hartman Rice has been removed from the DAR list of American patriots. Descendants are working to reinstate her. This folder contains emails re these attempts as well as stories about her life. Also included is a copy of the American Spirit, a DAR magazine, with an article about Abigail.
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RG1.B10.F7 - Report
These are files relating to the 2017 Town Tours and Village Walks and Village Walks program, entitled "Remains of the Day", which focused on burial sites of soldiers who died during the Revolutionary War; included is the script the presentations given at the six stations of the tour, a pamphlet for St. Peter's Pikeland United Chruch of Christ, a booklet about the Vincent Baptist Church and graveyard which contains a list of Rev. soldiers buried t...
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RG1.B11.F9 - Genealogy
This is a geneaology of descendants of Johannes Hartman, The Hartman family, including Abigail Hartman Rice, were active in the Revolutionary War at the Pikeland community.
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RG1.B3.F16 - Journal article
This article discusses women as nurses beginning at the Revolutioanry War. Also included is a chronology of provision by the Continental Congress of the General Hospital at Yellow Springs.
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RG1.B4.F16 - Script
This folder contains the slide show script prepared for Historic Yellow Springs to tell the historic story of the Revolutionary War in the village. Also included are two newspaper clippings by Pete Martin interviewing Edwin A. Segal who wrote the script.
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RG1.B4.F23 - Report
This folder contains the report written by Terry Ward for John Neidley, owner of the water dipper reported to belong to Abigail Hartman Rice and used by General George Washington to drink water. This occurred in 1777 at Yellow Springs. The dipper has been an heirloom in the family ever since. Included is the research on the dipper and its descent in the family through today. References cited in the report are given. Also in the folder is cor...
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RG1.B5.F14 - Biography
This folder contains multiple documents relating to the life of Abigail Hartman Rice and her family. She was baptized as Maria Appolonia. The Rice and Hartman families were prominent in Pikeland history and Abigail served as a nurse at the Revolutionary War hospital at Yellow Springs. Location of the Rice farm is in the folder. Genealogical information is included.
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RG1.B5.F17 - Excerpts
This excerpt is from the History of the Juniata Valley and Its People focusing on the Rice family. It details Zachariah Rice arriving as a German immigrant and setting up a clover mill on Pickering Creek in Pikeland. Married to Abigail Hartman Rice, both were prominent in the Revolutionary War in the Pikeland area at the Revolutionary War hospital at Yellow Springs. When foreclosure of an old English mortgage forced Rice off his farm in 1789,...
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RG1.B5.F21 - Report
This report was prepared for a Revolutionary War program at Valley Forge National Park by ranger William Lang. Lang identifies the key personnel involved in military medicine at the time; the key hospitals established; diseases; prevention and treatment of diseases; with emphasis on the Yellow Springs "Washington Hall" Hospital activities. A map of the Continental Army hospital locations is included.
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RG1.B5.F23 - Sign, Instructional
A photocopy page of the text on the sign/marker at the Revolutionary War Hospital Ruins at Yellow Springs. It details the history of the hospital
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RG1.B5.F6 - Excerpts
This folder contains an excerpt of the History of the Rice or Reiss Family and mention of the meeting (re-union) of the Hench, Dromgold, Hartman, Rice and Ickes families in Perry County, PA. The Hench and Rice families served in the Revolutionary War in Pikeland Township..
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RG1.B7.F15 - Genealogy
This is a genealogy ot the Harold and Bessie Leeper Davis family. it begins with the Billingsley family and includes the Rice family and the Hartman family who have ties to Historic Yellow Springs and the West Pikeland community.
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RG1.B7.F17 - Research materials
Research report on the Yellow Springs Hospital as of August 15, 2007 as completed by summer intern Gina Guzzon. The report includes an introduction to the research content, established information, unconfirmed information, description of what research needs to be done, where research was conducted and a list of documents, both primary and secondary that were found and used to write up the report.
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RG1.B7.F2 - Documents
This folder contains a letter from L.G. Millerick whose fifth great grandmothers were Abigail Hartman Rice and Christina Hench. She describes the relationship. Also included is a report "She Also Served" about Abigail Hartman Rice written by Mary Lou Buckenhauler. She is descended from Peter Hartman. She describes the family coming to America and then Abigail's service during the Revolutionary War as well as her family of 21 children. Buck...
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RG1.B7.F22 - Genealogy
This is a biography of Zachariah Rice, born in Germany, and moving to Pikeland, PA. Husband of Abigail Hartman. It gives a genealogy of the Rice family.
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RG1.B7.F3 - Photographs and etchings
Three photographs: two of the headstone for Abigail Hartman Rice and one of her brother Peter Hartman. Located in the Pikeland Cemetery on Clover Mill Road in West Pikeland Township in Chester Springs.
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RG1.B7.F.3 - Photographs and etchings
This folder contains two photographs: Grave of Peter Hartman and grave of Abigail Hartman Rice in the Pikeland Cemetery on Clover Mill Road in West Pikeland Township in Chester Springs, PA.
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RG1.B7.F4 - Research materials
This folder contains a wealth of information about the women of Yellow Springs. Researched by archivist Priscilla A. Waggoner, Ph.D., Waggoner saw these women as visionaries and called them the "Women of Vision". Women from the Revolutionary War period, the spa period, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as the Good News era and the current HYS period. Included is a geneaology and a map of the Pikelands. The prospect of an exhib...
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RG1.B7.F8 - Excerpts
This is an excerpt from a book on woman of Valley Forge written by Nancy Loane. The chapter is entitled "Camp Nurses, Medicine and Hospitals."
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RG1.B9.F1 - Research materials
This folder includes information collected by Jeanne DuFour who was one of the original members of Historic Yellow Springs in 1974 and possibly a member of the Yellow Springs Association before. Included are: advertisements for stagecoaches to the Yellow Springs, copies of letters mentioning coming to Yellow Springs, clippings, maps and extensive bibliographies especially of the Revolutionary War era. Also are: reports and excerpts on the Rev...
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