by tkendrick | Mar 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
LACEY’S FORT Michael C. Scoggins, York County Historical Center, July 2002 Lacey’s Fort was constructed by Col. Edward Lacey of Chester County in 1780 near Quinn’s Road on Turkey Creek, in southwestern York County . The fort was also known as Fort Lacey , Lacey’s...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Research by Robert I. McCann From: “A riffle Gun and what belongs to her” Wallace Gusler, Muzzle Blasts January 2003 (The gunsmith that made the Williamsburg gunsmithing program.) Joe and I both liked the article and in a discussion, Joe said that we ought to get it...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Nancy M. Sambitts York County Historical Center Clothing Inventory The following descriptions are from the Pennsylvania Gazette dated June 10, 1756: .A native Irishman, Hugh O’Daniel, appears to be 30 years of age, who broke out of the public jail wearing a pretty...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Michael C. Scoggins, York County Historical Center, July 2002 Christian Huck, commander of the Loyalist forces at the Battle of Huck’s Defeat, was born in one of the German states of Europe around the year 1748 and emigrated to America some time prior to the American...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Robert I. McCann Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industry by Edwin Tunis The Johns Hopkins University Press, about $19.00 paperback This is just a good book! It outlines American craftsmen from the mid-18th century through the first quarter of the...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Brandon Lohr There have been several accounts of backwoodsmen and scouts upon the northwestern Virginia frontier. These accounts often tell of the lives and exploits of the “heroes” who saved the settlers of their respective areas from attacks from hostile...
