Download or read book Genealogical and Personal History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Emerson Collins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Genealogical and Personal History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 The P'easlee Family has furnished its full quota of soldiers to the Revolutionary army, as well as to the war of the Rebellion, and its in tense religious convictions are reflected from the notable execution of Susanna North Martin for' witchcraft at Salem in 1692, down through the exciting early struggles of the Quakers and the Methodists, in which its members bore a prominent part. In that short but decisive struggle for justice and human liberty, waged in eastern New York, and known. To history as The anti-rent War, Thomas P'easlee, the anti-rent er, was a distinguished leader, and to his fearlessness in the field and his sane and wise counsel in debate, may be largely attributed the suc cessful result of the strife in Schoharie county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.