Dawn G Marsh
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 213 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency--a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn's "peaceable kingdom" preserved. This book...