Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier

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Index Abbot, Benjamin, 83 Abbot, Nathan (Jr.), 83 Abbot, Nathan (Sr.), 84, 89, 92 accommodation and farm building, 166 and Freemasonry, 191 geographic patterns, 153, 171–72 and local notables, 179, 183–84 and market formation, 167, 171–73 obstacles to, 152 and party politics, 194–95 See also Wyoming controversy: resolution of AcModer, John Jay, 78, 101 agrarian independence, 8, 200 and agrarian unrest, 8, 11, 67–68, 88, 145– 46, 198 and the American Revolution, 9–10, 198– 200 and decline of Yankee resistance, 149 and frontier migration, 110 and frontier settlement, 10–11, 198 and kinship/locale, 54–56 and market exchange, 170 agrarian insurgents, 65–66 disguise, use of, 137–39 motivations of, 66–68 See also Green Mountain Boys; White Indians ; Wild Yankees agrarian resistance. See agrarian unrest agrarian unrest, 65–66 and agrarian independence, 8, 11, 67–68, 88, 145–46, 198 and American Revolution, 137, 139, 140, 198–200 and class conflict, 66–67, 75, 81–82, 199 and jurisdictional disputes, 6–7 and land disputes, 6 in Maine, 6, 65, 200 and “moral economy,’’ 144, 145–46 and rebellion, 7 and religion, 141–43 and traditions of popular protest, 136–37, 138–39, 145 in Vermont, 6, 65, 69, 200 See also Yankee resistance Albany Congress of 1754, 19–20 allegiance and ethnicity, 51–53 and kinship/locale, 54–55, 155–56 patterns of, 49–56 and pursuit of property, 53–55 and regional culture, 51–53 See also Revolutionary War: patterns of allegiance Allen, David, 183 Allen, Ethan, 78, 79, 100 Allen, Nathaniel, 184–85, 194–95 Allen, Stephen, 183 Allensburgh, 83, 100 211 American Revolution, 9–10, 137, 139, 140, 198–200 Armstrong, John Jr., 45 Athens, 99, 142, 177–78 local notables of, 184, 189–90 authority contests over, 39–49 local constructions of, 43–44 Baily, Joseph, 111 Baldwin, Waterman, 44, 59, 61, 62, 99 Ballard, John, 155 Ballard, Nathan, 155 Ballard, Stephen, 143, 148, 155, 166 Baptist Church, 141–42 Beach, Zerah, 79–81, 98, 99 Bedford, 178 Bennett, Amos, 111 Benton, Caleb, 79, 100 Bingham, William, 98, 126 Black Boy riots, 7, 26 Board of Trade, 41 Bortle, Capt. John, 78, 80 Bortle, Peter, 109 Boyd, Maj. John, 44, 48 Bradford County, 194–95 Budd, Frederick, 83, 93 Burlington, 165, 184 Butler, Zebulon, 1, 3, 29, 47, 53, 79–80 Cady, Zebulon, 81n, 83, 92 Carney, William, 83 charivari. See rough music class conflict, 66–67, 75, 81–82, 199 Claverack, 100, 122, 159n, 164–65 community building and kinship networks, 154–55 and landholding patterns, 156, 159–60 Compromise Act, 122, 124, 153, 177–78 Confirming Act, 68, 95–96 Connecticut annexation of Wyoming region, 40–41 land shortage in, 16–17 1662 royal charter, 16 Connecticut claimants conflict with Paxton settlers, 52–53 factionalism among, 68–69, 74–75, 122, 151 moves toward reconciliation, 150 and party affiliation, 192 poverty among, 162 See also Wild Yankees Cooley, Preserved, 53–54 Cooper, Thomas, 122–23, 124 Coxe, Tench, 5, 98, 127–28, 170 Delaware (Indians), 2, 19, 21, 22, 32 Democratic–Republicans, 124, 191–92, 194– 95 Donnell, Henry, 120, 132 Drinker, Henry, 98, 126, 170 Dudley, Anna, 87 Dudley, Gideon, 83, 109 Dudley, Joseph, 83, 87, 90, 93 Dudley, Martin, 74, 84–86, 92, 108–9 Earl, Benjamin, 81n, 83, 90 Earl, Daniel, 81n, 83, 90 Earl, Joseph, 86, 87, 90, 91 Earl, Solomon, 83, 89 Ellicott, Andrew, 128 Erwin, Arthur, 3, 113 farm building and decline of resistance, 165–66 and household subsistence, 163–64 pioneer phase of, 160–62 time–labor factor of, 163, 166 Federalists, 191–92 Fenn v. Dorrance, 96 fifteen towns, the, 122, 153, 178 Finn, James, 70, 96, 143 flood of 1784, 58 Flower, Zephon, 135, 189 food riot, 169–70 Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768, 23 Franklin, Jehiel, 108, 118 Franklin, John, 33, 72, 99, 196–97 arrest of, 72–73 death of, 196 and Federalist Party, 192–92 and half–share men, 80–81 negotiations with Pennsylvania, 127–28 political career of, 117–18, 192–94 prosecution under Intrusion Act, 130 and reconciliation with Pennsylvania, 177– 78 release from prison, 92 service in Revolutionary War, 32–33, 197 and the Susquehannah Company, 77–80, 198 and Wild Yankees, 197–98 Franklin, Roswell, 108 Freemasonry, 189–91 212 Index Gobin, Edward, 132 Goddard, Ezra, 148, 156, 166, 173, 181 Goddard...