Remembering Chester County

by Brody, Susannah

• ISBN13: 9781596299535
• ISBN10: 1596299533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-17
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

When Elizabeth Chads opened her door one foggy September day in 1777 to see the Continental army surrounding her property, little did she know that her home would soon be the scene of the Battle of the Brandywine, which led to a series of skirmishes from Paoli to Valley Forge. One hundred years later, the Great Tornado of 1877 destroyed towns and crops, and the famous Buffalo Bill caused a ruckus when he strolled into West Chester. Through a series of fascinating vignettes from local storyteller Susannah Brody, discover how the people of Chester County secreted slaves along the Underground Railroad, hosted a witch trial and fought for woman's suffrage. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
The American Revolution
Squire Cheyney's Ride to Brandywine	p. 11
Witness to the Battle of Brandywine	p. 13
Black Patriot Ned Hector	p. 17
The Battle of the Clouds	p. 21
Thomazine Thomas Survives a Raid	p. 24
Remember Paoli!	p. 26
Polly Frazer	p. 30
Judge William Moore	p. 33
Abigail Hartman Rice, Nurse at Yellow Springs	p. 35
The Chester County Witch Trial	p. 37
Treason!	p. 40
The Nineteenth Century
The Reburial of Anthony Wayne	p. 43
The Friend Pot	p. 46
Duffy's Cut	p. 48
Ann Preston	p. 52
Flight to Freedom	p. 55
The Battle Axes	p. 59
Edward Hunter, Mormon Bishop	p. 63
The Swedish Nightingale Visits Yellow Springs	p. 65
Kidnapped!	p. 68
The 1852 Woman's Rights Convention	p. 73
Will Downing Goes to War	p. 76
Civil War Nurse Lil Zook	p. 80
The Great Tornado	p. 83
The Pickering Valley Train Wreck	p. 86
Buffalo Bill in Chester County	p. 90
The Twentieth Century
The Lynching of Zachariah Walker	p. 95
The Justice Bell Tours for Suffrage	p. 99
Tuskegee Airmen in Chester County	p. 102
Filming The Blob at Yellow Springs	p. 105
Bayard Rustin and the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom	p. 108
The Johnston Gang	p. 111
The Ku Klux Klan Parade	p. 115
Return to Duffy's Cut	p. 118
Bibliography	p. 123
About the Author	p. 127
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