The Black Boys Rebellion Part 6: "Success to Our Hellstown" (The Story of America's First Patriots)

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Join me as I tell the story of the Black Boys Rebellion. A story that has been thought to be the beginnings of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1765. Was this the beginning of the war? Follow along to find out! On this episode, an advertisement is found that could insight a riot!

Sources:
Crist, Robert Grant. George Croghan of Pennsboro. Dauphin Deposit Trust Company, 1965.

Guzy, Dan. The Black Boys Uprising of 1765: Traders, Troops, & "Rioters" during Pontiac's War. The Conococheague Institute, 2014.

Seiter, William A, director. Allegheny Uprising. RKO Radio Pictures, 1939.

Smith, James, et al. Scoouwa: James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative. Ohio Historical Society, 1992.

Smith, Thomas Price. James Smith, Frontier Patriot, Captive-Solider-Explorer-Legislator-Missionary-Author: A Biographical Profile of Colonel James Smith 1737-1812. Trafford Publishing, 2003.

Spero, Patrick. Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776. W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Swanson, Neil H. The First Rebel: Being a Lost Chapter of Our History and a True Narrative of America's First Uprising Against English Military Authority and an Account of The First Fighting between Armed Colonists and British Regulars Together with a Biography of Colonel James Smith Who Was Captured by Savages, Ran the Gantlet, Saw the Prisoners of the Braddock Massacre Burned at the Stake, Lived Five Years with the Indian, Escaped, Served through Three Wilderness Campaigns, and Led The Pennsylvania Rebellion in Which Backwoodsmen Fought the Famous Black Watch, Besieged a British Fort, Captured Its Commander and Part of Its Garrison, and in the Year 1765 Forced Its Evacuation Ten Years Before Lexington. Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1937.

Guzy’s book can be purchased locally at the Conococheague Institute or online at Amazon.com at this web address: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Boys-Upr...

Spero’s book can be purchased online at Amazon.com at this web address: https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Rebel...
Check out Spero’s website for other works at http://www.patrickspero.com/

Locations:
Mountain View (39.886103, -77.896892)
William Smith House (39.831545, -77.904394)
Fort Loudoun (39.896523, -77.886642)
Pawling's Tavern (39.758291, -77.754074)
William Maxwell's House (39.791546, -77.833427)
Cunningham's Tavern (39.830491, -77.904052)
McConnell's Tavern (39.932703, -77.999628)
Possible site of Ambush (40.016716, -78.123127)
Cumberland County Jail (40.201434, -77186876)
Rowland Harris's Pasture Land (39.928517, -77.908767)
The Widow Barr Farm (39.895416, -77.898792)