The Paxton Papers

1. Front Matter

   Pages N1-XI

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2. Introduction

   • John R. Dunbar

   Pages 1-51

3. 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

   • Benjamin Franklin

   Pages 55-75

4. 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

   • Charles Read

   Pages 77-82

5. The Cloven-Foot Discovered

   • John R. Dunbar

   Pages 83-86

6. A DIALOGUE, BETWEEN ANDREW TRUEMAN, AND THOMAS ZEALOT; About the killing the Indians AT CANNESTOGOE AND LANCASTER

   • John R. Dunbar

   Pages 87-90

7. A SERIOUS ADDRESS, to Such of the Inhabitants of PENNSYLVANIA, As have cannived at, or do approve of, the late Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster; or the Design of Killing those who are now in the Barracks at PHILADELPHIA

   • A. Pensylvanian

   Pages 91-97

8. A DECLARATION AND REMONSTRANCE Of the distressed and bleeding Frontier Inhabitants Of the Province of Pennsylvania, Presented by them to the Honourable the GOVERNOR and ASSEMBLY of the Province, Shewing the CAUSES Of their late Discontent and Uneasiness and the GRIEVANCES Under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress’d

   • Matthew Smith, James Gibson

   Pages 99-110

9. A DIALOGUE, Containing some Reflections on the late Declaration and Remonstrance, Of the Back-Inhabitants of the PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA

   • John R. Dunbar

   Pages 111-123

10. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT, of the late DISTURBANCE, between the INHABITANTS OF THE BACK SETTLEMENTS; OF PENNSYLVANIA, and the PHILADELPHIANS, &. Impartially related by a well Wisher. The Second Edition, may be called a PIRACY. I said Printed at Rome: I meant nothing but ✠ Printed in Second-Street, by Andrew Steuars-Stockfish

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 125-129

11. THE ADDRESS OF THE People call’d Quakers, In the Province of PENNSYLVANIA, to JOHN PENN, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the said Province, &c

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 131-138

12. THE SQUABBLE, A Pastoral Eclogue. By Agricola. The SECOND EDITION

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 139-147

13. The Paxton Expedition

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 149-151

14. THE [P]AXTON BOYS, A FARCE. Translated from the Original FRENCH, By a Native of DONEGALL, The SECOND EDITION

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 153-164

15. THE PAXTONIADE. A POEM. By CHRISTOPHER GYMNAST, Esqr; With the Prolegomena and Exercitations of, SCRIBLERUS

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 165-171

16. A BATTLE! A BATTLE! A Battle of Squirt, Where no Man is kill’d And no Man is hurt! To the TUNE of three blue BEANS, in a blue BLADDER; RATTLE BLADDER, RATTLE!

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 173-182

17. The Apology of the Paxton Volunteers

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 183-204

18. THE QUAKER Unmask’d; OR, PLAIN TRUTH: Humbly address’d to the Consideration of all the FREEMEN of PENNSYLVANIA

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 205-215

19. A Touch on the TIMES A NEW SONG

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 217-222

20. REMARKS ON THE QUAKER UNMASK’D; Or PLAIN TRUTH found to be PLAIN FALSHOOD: Humbly address’d to the Candid

    • John R. Dunbar

    Pages 223-228

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.

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