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The Ordeal of Thomas Barton. Anglican Missionary in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1755-1780.
Myers, James P., Jr.
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Hardback. This study draws upon Thomas BartonOs Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary documents to illuminate his career and help readers appreciate the complex world of the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier and more generally of the colonial American backcountry. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
This study draws upon Thomas Barton's Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary documents to illuminate his career and help readers appreciate the complex world of the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier and more generally of the colonial American back country. As a missionary for the Church of England's Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in York, Cumberland, and Lancaster counties of Pennsylvania, Barton championed the interests of the Anglican church and the proprietary of William Penn's children in a turbulent borderland beset by both threats from the French and their ... Read more
This study draws upon Thomas Barton's Forbes expedition journal, and a vast collection of manuscript letters, sermons, and other contemporary documents to illuminate his career and help readers appreciate the complex world of the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania frontier and more generally of the colonial American back country. As a missionary for the Church of England's Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in York, Cumberland, and Lancaster counties of Pennsylvania, Barton championed the interests of the Anglican church and the proprietary of William Penn's children in a turbulent borderland beset by both threats from the French and their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460636
SKU
V9781611460636
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About Myers, James P., Jr.
James P. Myers, Jr. is Graeff Professor of English at Gettysburg College.
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