The Gunsmith In Colonial Virginia

Author : Harold B. Gill
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0879350083

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The Gunsmith in Colonial Virginia by Harold B. Gill Pdf

The importance of gunsmithing in Virginia during the colonial period is clear. Gunsmiths were found nearly everywhere: in port towns along the coast, in settled inland areas, and - probably the busiest ones - on the frontier. As with most craftsmen, many of these men remain obscure. They left little trace and the records reveal their names only incidentally. With the revolutionary war, gunsmiths of unusual ability appeared.

Author : Wil Mara
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608704149

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The Gunsmith by Wil Mara Pdf

Although called gunsmiths, they rarely labored on guns during colonial times. An important part of the community, the gunsmith most likely focused on other types of metal work, but occasionally assembled firearms. This historical volume chronicles the formative years of the United States through the activities and occupations of its most important community members. It explore the everyday life, responsibilities, social life, and the affect the gunsmith had on the colonial American way of life. Hands-on activities and recipes, sidebars detailing the history and evolution of the profession, and key social studies words are defined in the glossary.

Author : Wil Mara
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627120463

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The Gunsmith by Wil Mara Pdf

Although called gunsmiths, they rarely labored on guns during colonial times. An important part of the community, the gunsmith most likely focused on other types of metal work, but occasionally assembled firearms. This historical volume chronicles the formative years of the United States through the activities and occupations of its most important community members. It explore the everyday life, responsibilities, social life, and the affect the gunsmith had on the colonial American way of life. Hands-on activities and recipes, sidebars detailing the history and evolution of the profession, and key social studies words are defined in the glossary.

Author : William Pencak
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810855878

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Historical Dictionary of Colonial America by William Pencak Pdf

The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another. Most importantly, the focus of global commerce and power shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, largely because of the discovery ofthe New World. The New World was more than a geographic novelty. It opened the way for new human possibilities, possibilities that were first fulfilled by the British colonies of North America, nearly 100 years after Columbus landed in the Bahamas. TheHistorical Dictionary of Colonial America covers America's history from the first settlements to the end and immediate aftermath of the French and Indian War. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the various colonies, which were founded and how they became those which declared independence. Religious, political, economic, and family life; important people; warfare; and relations between British, French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies are also among the topics covered. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Colonial America.

Author : Barbara Crawford,Royster Lyle,Royster Lyle (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0813916380

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Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans by Barbara Crawford,Royster Lyle,Royster Lyle (Jr.) Pdf

The development of many artisans in the fine arts, textiles, furniture, clocks, rifles, ironwork, and pottery is traced from 1750 through the post-Civil War years.

Author : Raymond D. Irwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313072895

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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980 by Raymond D. Irwin Pdf

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in professional literature, and the number of OCLC member libraries holding the work. In 31 thematic sections, the book covers such topics as: exploration and colonialization, Native Americans, the American Revolutionary War, the Constitution, race and slavery, gender, religion.

Author : William E. Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313017643

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Science and Technology in Colonial America by William E. Burns Pdf

Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy—what we call science—such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all aspects of how science and technology impacted the everyday life of Americans of all classes and cultures. Science and Technology in Everyday Life in Colonial America covers a wide range of topics that will interest students of American history and the history of science and technology: * Domestic technology—how colonial women devised new strategies for day-to-day survival * Agricultural—how Native Americans and African slaves influenced the development of a American system of agriculture * War—how the frequent battles during the colonial period changed how industry made consumer goods This volume includes myriad examples of the impact science and technology had on the lives of individual who lived in the New World.

Author : Alexander Rose
Publisher : Delta
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553384383

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American Rifle by Alexander Rose Pdf

George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.

Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000126636

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The Gunsmith's Trade by James B. Whisker Pdf

This is a history of gunsmithing in America. Although the English guild system regulated the trade in the Mother Country, Americans, as usual, preferred freedom to regulation. This book examines the gunsmithing trade in relation to the militia; apprenticeships; labour; tools and equipment; the Frontier gunsmith; and traitors, criminals, and deserters.

Author : US Army Military History Research Collection,Joyce L. Eakin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D007034221

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Colonial America and the War for Independence by US Army Military History Research Collection,Joyce L. Eakin Pdf

Author : Clayton E. Cramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440860386

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel by Clayton E. Cramer Pdf

This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691248172

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47 by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Jefferson continues his pattern of returning home to Monticello for the summer months. He makes a brief visit to Poplar Forest in Bedford County to plan the development of that property. James Hubbard, a young enslaved worker at Monticello, escapes but is captured in Fairfax County. Another slave who has fled, James Hemings, rejects efforts to persuade him to return and disappears. Receiving news of the end of the conflict with Tripoli, Jefferson states that although it is “a small war in fact, it is big in principle.” He devotes much of his attention to relations with Spain. He considers alliance with Great Britain to force a resolution with Spain, then chooses instead to negotiate with France for the purchase of Florida and settlement of matters in dispute with Spain. He drafts bills to organize the militia by age and create a naval militia. Specimens sent by Lewis and Clark arrive. Jefferson calculates that the United States has recently acquired cessions of well over 9 million acres of land from Native Americans. He meets with visiting Creek leaders. Answering a query, Jefferson states that Patrick Henry was “the greatest orator that ever lived” but “avaritious & rotten hearted.”

Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs,Sandra Hargreaves Luebking
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1593312776

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The Source by Loretto Dennis Szucs,Sandra Hargreaves Luebking Pdf

Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""

Author : Judith A. McGaw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839980

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Early American Technology by Judith A. McGaw Pdf

This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.

Author : Virginia. Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Virginia
ISBN : PSU:000056510782

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Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676 by Virginia. Council Pdf