Dark History of Penn's Woods by Jennifer L Green

Author:Jennifer L Green [Green, Jennifer L]
Language: spa
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955041010
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2021-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

William Wilson as depicted in an illustration from the first edition of The Pennsylvania Hermit, c. 1838. (Wikimedia)

Visitors to Indian Echo Caverns can still tour “Wilson Cave” and see where William spent the last 19 years of his lonely life.

Notes

1 Meredith Peterson Tufts, “A Matter of Context: Elizabeth Wilson Revisited,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 131, No. 2 (April 2007), 149–176.

2 Ibid., 156–157.

3 Ibid., 156.

4 Ibid., 158.

5 Clare A. Lyons, Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), 64.

6 G.S. Rowe, “Infanticide, Its Judicial Resolution, and Criminal Code Revision in Early Pennsylvania,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 135, No. 2 (June 1991), 347.

7 Lyons, 110.

8 Ibid., 107–109.

9 Tufts, 165, 169.

10 Ibid., 166.

11 Ibid., 168–9.

12 Ibid., 168–9.

13 Rowe, 353.

14 Tufts, 170.

15 Ibid., 171–2.

16 “A Faithful narrative of Elizabeth Wilson; who was executed at Chester, January 3d, 1786. Charged with the murder of her twin infants. Containing some account of her dying sayings; with some serious reflections: Drawn up at the request of a friend unconnected with the deceased,” 1786. Available from https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N15436.0001.001/

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17 “A Faithful Narrative…,” 6.

18 Tufts, 174–175.

19 Ibid., 151–2.

20 Henry Graham Ashmead, History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884), 173.

21 Ibid., 172–3.

22 Ibid., 175.

23 Ibid., 175.

24 Amos Wilson, The Sweets of Solitude! Or Directions to Mankind How They May Be Happy in a ‘Miserable World!’ Available online at http://seclusion.com/the-sweets-of-solitude/the-sweets-

of-solitude-the-manuscript/.

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