Pioneer Joseph Barnett and his family in revolutionary hardship
Joseph Barnett born 1726 in Ireland, moves to Pennsylvania with his family. Indians strike, capture and kill, yet Barnett survives a broken arm and the loss of his son Mackey’s, and later reconciles with his long-lost child. The tale ends with reunions at Fort Pitt, Barnett’s death in 1808 and a lifetime of faith amid trial.
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Joseph Barnett
Ireland
America
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Joseph
Ays
Mackey
Block House
Barrett
Barnett
Col. Croghan
Fort Pitt
Col
Croghan
Deen
Destess
Fort
Alleghany River
Grant
Grant Street
Pittsburgh
Niegof
England
United States
Mr. Barrett
William
Allegheny River
Carlisle
Herembrace
Heaven
Franks
City of
New York
Allegheny County
McClure
Mifflin Township
Lebanon
Strange Will Leaves Hidden Gold In Everyday Heirlooms
A London miser John Pleech left a quirky will bequeathing simple items to relatives. His sister kicks a jar in anger and guineas spill out, proving the pieces were filled. A large bell for a Romish cathedral in Monreal weighs seven tons, with a three hundred pound clapper. In Terre Haute hogs sold for two dollars.
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John Pleech
London
England
Romish
Monreal
Robespierre as a Cautionary Figure and Other News
The piece portraits Robespierre as a dangerous, cautious villain whose actions betray a warped moral core, contrasting him with harsher radicals like Collot d Herbois and Billaud Varennes. It also reports on hydrophobia death of Hypropueista Davis, Arkansas judge dangers, and a note on the new Phonographic shorthand by Isaac Putnam with Bath origins.
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Robespierre
Collot d’Herbois
Billaud Varrennes
Garat
Wm. Davis
Zanesville
Arkansas
John Field
Sixth Judicial District
Hempstead County
Poonoorarny
England
Isaac Putnam
Bath
Audubon Arrives in Pittsburgh with Specimens and Rocks
The ornithologist Audubon reaches Pittsburgh with many large boxes of animal and bird specimens and a living deer fox and badger. He also brings two spherical rocks weighing 280 pounds each found in the Cannon Ball River near Missouri.
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Audubon
Pittsburgh
Missouri
Cannon Ball
Whig State Convention to Choose Governors and Electors
The Democratic Whig State Central Committee announces a convention of delegates from counties cities and townships to meet in Columbia January 10 1844. The aim is to select governor and presidential electors for Baltimore the Whig national convention and to organize the party for the 1844 campaign to restore honest government and defend liberty.
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Columbia
National Whig Convention
Baltimore
Democratic Whig Party
Sa Amen
Traa
Loco Foco
New Murerism Claim Shifts Doomsday Date
A prophet of Murerism asserts March 22 as Gentile time equals April 22 in Jewish terms, predicting the world’s destruction on March 22 next. The claim hinges on a calendar reckoning that aligns two dates across calendars.
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Republic
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A.M. Gest
The
Presbyterian Advocate
Terre Haute
Obo
Joseph Ridgway
Robert Neil
MO. A. Lazell
John Greenwood
Lewis Heyl
John Henfield
Salem
Massachusetts
Selem Register
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