Author: William Watts Hart Davis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781333057497

Excerpt from The Fries Rebellion, 1798-99: An Armed Resistance to the House Tax Law, Passed by Congress, July 9, 1798, in Bucks and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania I purchased the Doylestown (pa) Democrat 1858, and, be ing interested in local history, began collecting the facts, . Relating to the armed resistance to the house-tax law of 1798, and writing it up for my paper. I had heard a good deal oi it in my youth and was curious to know more. It had its birth in Milford township, Bucks county, Pa.; thence extend. Ing into the adjoining townships of Northampton, and, in un written history, was known as the Milford Rebellion. There is no evidence that the people-oi Montgomery county had any part in it. 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.