Arranged chronologically from 1728 to 1748 during the period of Franklin's personal charge, this useful reference tool consists of genealogical abstracts of the most important newspaper in 18th-century America--the Pennsylvania Gazette. Concerned with everything newsworthy, the Gazette featured a variety of human interest stories which, in contemporary terms, translate into strong genealogical ...
The record of the New Jersey Council of Safety is a little known but important source for New Jersey history during the American Revolution. The function of the Council of Safety was to protect the state from the enemy while providing the militia with whatever they needed in order to fight. This work is an "abstraction" of the important proceedings found in the five volumes of the records of the ...
In the Preface Mae W. Allen writes, "What this history is will be quickly apparent to anyone reading it. We have quite simply gathered from books, from newspapers, from people who remember, and even from children who have asked questions and recorded the answers all the stories, factual or fictional, that committee members could collect and preserve.
This selection is the first statewide collection of life histories from the Social-Ethnic Studies program of the Federal Writers's Project. They represent for ethnic history what the more famous Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narratives have meant for African-American history.