Internet Archive continually updates publications and other materials that are out of copyright, and for our purposes that means historical research. Let's say you believe you have an ancestor who was alive in Western Pennsylvania and farmed. Could that person have been one of the Whisky tax protesters who participated in the Whisky Rebellion (also called The Whisky Insurrection)? When farmers could not profit from crops planted in rocky soil, they decided to make whisky instead... Could your ancestor be named?
ARCHIVE ORG - PENNSYLVANIA published in 1852 about the 1794 Rebellion . The publisher is the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonweath and others.
One of the things I love about this book is that the index is intact and so you can go right to the index with the slide bar and page back. You are bound to see some surnames that are also the names of settlements. There are also references to Six Nations (Native Americans).
ARCHIVE ORG - START PAGE FOR SEARCH
