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Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
Topic: Predicaments of Early Republican LifeTopic: ReligionTopic: PoliticsTopic: ExpansionTopic: Equality
Topic: Expansion
Overview of Living the Revolution
Resource Menu: Expansion
Text 1. The Northwest Ordinance
Text 2. Noble/Lincecum
Text 3. Thomas Jefferson
Text 4. Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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Text 5. Cornplanter/Washington
Text 6. Indians/U.S. Agents
Text 7. Elias Boudinot
Text 8. Lewis Cass
Text 9. Background


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4.  Hugh Henry Brackenridge, "The Trial of Mamachtaga," in Incidents of the Insurrection, 1795

Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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Summary of the trial in the 1906 county history, from the Westmoreland County [PA] History Project

Brief biography of Brackenridge, from The Princeton Companion

Brief biography and bibliography, from Dr. James R. Elkins, West Virginia University

Biography of Brackenridge, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



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