Download or read book Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians Friends of this Province by Persons Unknown With Some Observations on the Same written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin decries the recent massacre by the self-styled Paxton Boys of peaceful Native Americans belonging to the Conestoga tribe in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and the subsequent murder by mob action against those remaining Indians who had been taken to the county workhouse for protection. By contrast, he recounts examples of the "rite of hospitality" exercised on behalf of their enemies by ancient Greeks in Homer's Ulysses, by Muslim Moors under the Saracens, by native Africans in Guinea, and by Native Americans. Franklin also includes copies of proclamations by Governor John Penn against the outrage. The pamphlet concludes with calls for justice against the perpetrators.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians Friends of This Province by Persons Unknown With Some Observations on the Same written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W017009 Generally attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Ascribed to the press of Franklin and Hall by Miller on the basis of the typeface used. Evans, Hildeburn, and P.L. Ford suggest Anthony Armbruster as printer. Sabin says "Written and printed by Franklin." -. [Philadelphia]: Printed [by Franklin and Hall?], in the year M, DCC, LXIV. [1764]. 31, [1]p.; 8°
Download or read book A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians Friends of This Province by Persons Unknown written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of This Province, by Persons Unknown: With Some Observations on the Same Chriftiatr Miflionaries, been b smg, at lead, of on lately left their Nation us, becaufe they did not chufe to join with them in their Depredations, and to fhew their Confi dence in us, and to give us an equal Confidence in them, they have brought and put into our Hands their Wives and Children. Others have lived long among us in nort/jzzmpz'on County, and molt of their Children have been born there. Thefe ari: all now trembling for their Lives have been hurried from Place to Place for now concealed 111 Corners, then fent out Province, refufed a Pafiage through a ed, not' nu indv on our Hands. 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.
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Download or read book A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians Friends of this Province by Persons Unknown with Some Observations on the Same written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NARRATIVE OF THE LATE MASSACRES IN LANCASTER COUNTY OF A NUMBER OF INDIANS FRIENDS OF THIS PROVINCE BY PERSONS UNKNOWN written by BENJAMIN. FRANKLIN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A narrative of the late Massacres in Lancaster County of a number of Indians friends of this Province by persons unknown With some observations on the same written by Quarter Sessions, Court of (LANCASTER, Pennsylvania, County of) and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians Friends of this Province written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Paxton Papers written by John R. Dunbar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt has been made to arrange the pamphlets reprinted in this volume in a chronological/argumentative sequence. The grammar, punctuation, and spelling of the originals have been kept; however, occasionally, where the spelling in the original might arouse serious question in the mind of the reader, the conventional symbol sic has been placed after the word. For permission to reprint these pamphlets I wish to thank the American Philosophical Society; The Historical Society of Pennsylvania; The Huntington Library, San Marino, Califor The Library Company of Philadelphia; and The New nia; York Public Library. I am particularly grateful for the generous help given me by the staffs of the American Philosophical Society and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania; I es pecially wish to thank Mr. Nicholas Biddle Wainwright, Re search Librarian of the latter Society, for prompt aid from a far distance in a number of trying circumstances. For permission to quote from Mr. Brooke Hindle's "The March of the Paxton Men," thanks are due to Mr. Lawrence W. Turner, editor of the William and Mary Quarter!J. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface VII Introduction I A Narrative of the Late Massacres, in Lancaster County, of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, By Persons unknown. 55 Copy of a Letter From Charles Read, Esq: To The Hon: John Ladd, Esq: And his Associates, Justices of the Peace for the County of Gloucester. 77 The Cloven-Foot discovered.
Download or read book Massacre of the Conestogas written by Jack Brubaker and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County's Paxton Boys were the culminating tragedies in a series of traded atrocities between European settlers and native tribes. Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker gives a blow-by-blow account of the massacres, examines their aftermath and investigates how the Paxton Boys got away with murder. Join Brubaker as he follows the bloody trail left by the killers through the Pennsylvania countryside.
Download or read book The Conduct of the Paxton men Impartially Represented written by Thomas Barton and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W037505 A defense of the Paxton boys, in reply to Benjamin Franklin's "A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians." - Attributed to Thomas Barton by Hildeburn and Evans. Also attributed to the Rev. John Ewing. Cf. Egle, W.H. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, 1883, p. 68. An added title page identifies John Creaig of Lancaster as bookseller. Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Steuart, MDCCLXIV. [1764]. [2],34p.; 8°
Download or read book Conduct of the Paxton men Impartially Represented the Distresses of the Frontiers and the Complaints and Sufferings of the People Fully Stated With Some Remarks Upon the Narrative of the Indian massacre Lately Publish d Interspers d with Several Interesting Anecdotes Relating to the Military Genius and Warlike Principles of the People Call d Quakers Together with Proper Reflection and Advice Upon the Whole In a Letter from a Gentleman in One of the Back Counties to a Friend in Philadelphia written by Thomas Barton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in response to the reports of and commentary on the recent masssacre of Native Americans in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania -- and especially to Benjamin Franklin's 'A Narrative of the Late Massacres' -- Thomas Barton defends the actions of the Paxton Boys, who carried out the killings. His argument includes characterizations of the Philadelphia Quakers who are not, he argues, as pacifistic as they claim to be. Barton ends the pamphlet by asking his reader to advise the "visionary Quakers and Don Quixotes" that they should hear the complaints of the people and remove the Indians from the scene in order to restore peace, harmony, and good order in the colony.
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Download or read book Massacre of the Conestogas written by Jack Brubaker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of how a vigilante mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen butchered a Native American tribe—and got away with it. On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty Susquehannock women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County’s Paxton Boys were the tragic culmination of a gruesomely violent conflict between European settlers and native tribes. The Paxton Boys then journeyed to Philadelphia, not to evade the law but to confront it. They openly threatened to commit more of the same violence if their demands were not met. In Massacre at the Conestogas, Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker gives a blow-by-blow account of the massacres, examines their aftermath, and investigates how the Paxton Boys got away with murder.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Edwards and the Representation of American Culture written by Barbara B. Oberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus placing them in categories as different and opposed as "traditional" and "modern." In these essays--by such scholars as William Breitenbach, Edwin Gaustad, Elizabeth Dunn, and Ruth Bloch--polemical contrasts disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture is a valuable addition to scholarship on American literature and thought.
