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A Note on Terminology I use the terms settlers, farmers, and backcountry inhabitants interchangeably throughout this work to designate non-Native frontier inhabitants, knowing full well that Indians also settled, farmed, and inhabited the land. I refer to those who held land under Pennsylvania as Pennamites, Pennsylvania claimants, or at times, just Pennsylvanians. Likewise, I use the terms Connecticut claimant, Yankee, and New Englander interchangeably to designate settlers who held land under deeds issued by Connecticut land companies. However, I reserve the terms Wild Yankee, Yankee insurgents, and others for those Connecticut claimants who actively resisted Pennsylvania. In the name of verbal variation I also use the terms frontier, backcountry, and hinterland interchangeably. Moreover, when referring to the region on which this study focuses, I employ the terms the Wyoming region, Northeast Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania’s Northeast frontier, or simply the Northeast frontier. In cases where I am specifically talking about the Wyoming Valley, I stick with that designation. Finally, although I employ the phases agrarian unrest, agrarian resistance, and agrarian insurgents throughout this work, I do not use the word agrarian to indicate that backcountry settlers were fighting for some radical, leveling vision in which landed property would be equally distributed to all; rather, I simply use it as a synonym for rural, backcountry, or frontier. xiii This page intentionally left blank. ...

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