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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.F2 - Biography
General Anthony Wayne, buried at the Churchgrounds at St. David's Church, Radnor was an American officer who fought at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. Included is an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 1, 1939 highlighting Wayne's service, death and burial.
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RG1.B11.F3 - Correspondence
Corinne Slusser is a descendant of Zachariah Rice. She visitied HYS to share her family history and learn more about the family. Included in the folder is her geneaology and connection to Zachariah Rice who moved to Juniata County where he donated land for the Rice Church to be built. Also included a page from the history of Ogle County denoting Zachariah Rice. Rice's wife is Abigail Hartman Rice who served as a nurse at the Revolutionary War hos...
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RG1.B3.F15 - Magazine article
This article contains information about the Moravian village of Bethlehem, PA, and the care of the sick and injured Continental Army tended there. It further describes the hospital at Lititz and its closing with remaining patients being sent to Lancaster and Yellow Springs during the Revolutionary War..
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RG1.B3.F3 - Booklet
The booklet describes the Old Charlestown Burial Ground that dates to 1745; the Charlestown Presbyterian Church; the Revolutionary War soldiers buried there; background on Dr. Samuel Kennedy, Revolutionary War doctor
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RG1.B3.F4 - Program and Newspaper clippings
Newspaper clippings of the dedication of the Charlestown Revolutionary War Cemetery and a program from the 1991 rededication; letters re the cemetery
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RG1.B4.F22 - Exhibit Report
This folder contains various documents relating to the photographic history of events in the Chester Springs area during the Revolutionary War 1777-78. It includes newspaper clippings with photos describing the exhibit resulting from the research and photography. Also included are the narratives written to detail the Revolutionary War in the Chester Springs area.
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RG1.B4.F29 - Genealogy
This is a genealogy of the Hench and Hartman families created by Stephen A. and Janeann M. Runkle for the Boyer Family Reunion. they begin the story in 1688 in Germany and continue it to the present day. They give a history of the families as they immigrated to America and settled in West Pikeland Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. They give military records of the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars with service at theYellow Sprin...
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RG1.B4.F6 - Biography
This folder contains various pieces of biographical information on Brigadier General Persifer Frazer (1736-1792), who served under General Anthony Wayne during the Revolutionary War. He had served as a delegate to the provincial convention and was from Thornbury, PA. He is buried in Middletown Presbyterian Church in Delaware County. Included are copies of letters he wrote to his wife Polly in the Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.
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RG1.B4.F9 - Excerpts
This folder contains various sources of information about the Revolutionary War re the Paoli Massacre and General Anthony Wayne. It includes information on the formation of a Committee of Safety for Chester County. Included is a roster of field and staff officers. An overview of the Valley Forge encampment is given.
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RG1.B5.F11 - Biography
This folder contains the notes and research for a lecture about Dr. Samuel Kennedy, Revolutionary War physician, by Sandra S. Momyer for the Charlestown Historical Society. Also inlcuded are photocopies of correspondence between Dr. Kennedy and his wife Sarah during the Revolutionary War as well as geneaology information on descents.
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RG1.B5.F12 - Report
This is a report on the Kennedy family written at the time of Bi-Centennial by Russell Vance Kennedy. It begins with William and Susanna Kennedy and their home on the Doak farm. William became a soldier in the Revolutionary War. (There is no mention of a relationship with Dr. Samuel Kennedy although the two families came from the same part of Chester County.)
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RG1.B5.F13 - Biography
This folder contains information on Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg from journals and articles. Muhlenberg (1711-1787) is the pioneering patriarch of American Lutheranism who brought the religion to Philadelphia in 1742. While serving three churches, he is best known for his service at the Augustus Lutheran Church in Trappe, PA. He served the churches in the Pikeland Township area and was a friend to Dr. Bodo Otto and General George Washington ...
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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.F18 - Diary
Rev. James Sproat, a clergy of the Presbyterian Church, was elected by Congress a chaplain for the hospitals of the Middle Deparatment during the Revolutionary War. This folder contains excerpts from his journals detailing his work at the Yellow Springs hospital and his visits with Dr. Samuel Kennedy and Dr. Bodo Otto and other Revolutionary War physicians. His travels from town and village are noted.
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RG1.B5.F19 - Correspondence
This correspondence is from Walter L. Johns decendant of David John a farmer in Pikeland in the 1700's. He details a visit to sites of the original John farm, cemeteries, and research he has completed on the John family.
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RG1.B5.F20 - Booklet
This booklet was printed on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in West Pikeland Township - 1971. It gives the history of this church which parallels the Lutheran Church in America. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg dedicated this church and his diaries give details of work there, the families living in Pikeland and mentions the Yellow Springs. This church was used as a hospital during the Revolutionary Wa...
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RG1.B5.F22 - Pamphlet
This pamphlet describes St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley and its important history as an early church. The first log church was built around 1700 by Welsch-speaking Anglican missionaries; the present church was built in 1744. This is one of the oldest of the original parishes in the Diocese of PA and of the Episcopal Church in the USA. It served as a hospital for American and British soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
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RG1.B5.F4 - Excerpts
This folder contains various excerpts re the Hartman family found in many different locations: monographs, personal listings and research findings. Genealogies are included. The Hartman family served in the Revolutionary War in Pikeland Township. Included are photographs of the grave marker for Peter Hartman and Abigail Hartman Rice.
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