Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, 1767

Started laying out counties in 1745.

PA was never part of VA.

Was it not Virginia Colony? Part of my family lived around Conococheague Settlement in 1720.

Keystone State!

Very cool thank you!

1607, the whole continent was Virginia. but whatever.

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Writing letters was not an easy task back then.

No pencils, pens, and paper was a somewhat difficult commodity.

I tried to write with a quill once, fuck that shit, impossible for an Oaf like me.

I can shit-talk on GLP using this keyboard though.
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Good stuff. Thank you.

pa bitches. we ready.

racist slave drivers all of them

It's difficult in these times to stay with the long sentences and archaic mode of writing. It's like reading Dickens, it's tough going at times. Plus the, 's' printed like an 'f', typical 18th c. Style

Who cares? You are nothing compared to them. You post absolute bullshit here on GLP, time and time again.

Americans are so dumbed down today

Most probably don’t know what
Imprudence or pernicious means when this farmer speaks.
LoL


Fluoride nation

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Where have all the decent women gone?? They are way worse than men with the vile stuff they are doing.

Yes, the ignorance here abounds.

Pennsylvania is the KEYSTONE state (not the Cornerstone state as someone here said).

William Penn's colony was already very much established in the 1760s, a mere 10 years before the Revolution. Holland / the Dutch were long out of the picture by then, not that they ever had much presence in PA. The PA Dutch are actually German (Deutch). <Again, someone else here said that Pennsylvania didn't exist in the 1760...such ignorance>

My God, it's sad. The pernicious machinations of our deliberately dumbed-down education model have taken their toll on the populace, as witnessed here in this thread. With such careless imprudence, we've let another generation get even stupider.

Lol America in a nutshell. One guy on a thread claiming its shit, the other reminding him he's part of the shit and not doing anything about it.

God Bless the USA.

Yes you're right. And there are people and systems which don't acknowledge or foster human nature or human souls.

The internet experiment gonna be gone soon in the coming Age of No Electricity. Lots of young people who never learned how to write with their hands won't be able to correspond with each other, and they can't decipher cursive writing by traditional folk. These young people, having no handwriting communication skills, will all become manual labor working the fields.

FAKE NEWS


“They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

I wonder why the printer laid it out that way. Because they did have the regular ‘s’ and used it in the word ‘affairs’, ‘days’ and as the second ‘s’ in ‘goodness’ in the first paragraph. Must have been some rule with being the last letter in the word maybe.

Thanks for posting this!
I love History

Take note - At the top of the website is a scan from an original printing. In cursive writing, not typeface, it's written: "Who with Attic Eloquence, and Roman Spirit, hath Asserted the Liberties of the British Colonies in America."

Notice the word asserted used both a long s followed by a short one. And this was in writing, so it's not simply the printer's decision. This was the custom of the day. Look up long s (disappeared by the early 1800s).


Pennsylvania is the Keystone State.
PA is the Keystone of the Commonwealths.