An Early History of the Wyoming Valley - Earle, Kathleen A; Phd
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"When Connecticut Yankees began to settle the Wyoming Valley in the 1760s, both the local Pennsylvanians and the powerful native Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) strenuously objected. The Connecticut Colony and William Penn has been granted the same landy by King Charles II of England, resulting in the instigation of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars. IN 1788, during ongoing conflict, a band of young Yankee ruffians abducted Pennsylvania offical Timothy Pickering, holding him hostage for nineteen days. Some kidnappers wer prosecuted, and several fled... Bloody skirmishes, The American Revolution and the…mehr

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"When Connecticut Yankees began to settle the Wyoming Valley in the 1760s, both the local Pennsylvanians and the powerful native Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) strenuously objected. The Connecticut Colony and William Penn has been granted the same landy by King Charles II of England, resulting in the instigation of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars. IN 1788, during ongoing conflict, a band of young Yankee ruffians abducted Pennsylvania offical Timothy Pickering, holding him hostage for nineteen days. Some kidnappers wer prosecuted, and several fled... Bloody skirmishes, The American Revolution and the Sullivan campaign to destroy the Iroquois all formed the backdrop to the territorial dispute."--Back cover.
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Kathleen Earle is a native New Yorker whose ancestral roots go back to Pennsylvania. She is an author, artist, former professor and former director of research at the National Indian Child Welfare Association in Portland, Oregon. She attended Cornell University and the Rockefeller College of the State University of New York-Albany, where she received a PhD in 1996. She has written and illustrated several award-winning children's books and many peer-reviewed articles in the areas of mental health and child abuse. She lives in Maine with her husband, Stan Fox.