Prendergast's Rent War, a colonial American rebellion

This roadside marker stood for many years at Chautauqua, NY to identify the last home where my 5x great grandparents William & Mehit...

Marker in Quaker Hill Cemetery. Today, my sister Bette and I visited the stomping ground of our 5x great grandparents William Prenderga...

For the next few days, my sister Bette and I will be visiting sites that played key roles in William Prendergast's Rent Rebellio...

New York City in the 18th century. William Prendergast's only known week he ever spent in New York City was spent in a jail cell at ...

A decade before the American Revolution, tenant farmers in the Hudson River valley massed into a revolt against their manor lords. It...

By all accounts, my 5x great grandfather William Prendergast bravely crossed the Atlantic Ocean by himself at the age of 21 in 1748. Cert...

Enniscorthy Castle, County Wexford, Ireland. Built circa 1205 by Philip de Prendergast. In 1169, Knight Maurice de Prendergast joined ...