HIST 239: American Revolutions, 1763-1815 (HC)

The stated purpose of this Quaker organization was "for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians." Their papers contain early accounts of the Conestoga Massacre.

"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"
Philadelphia: Printed by W. Bradford?, 1764

By Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia: Printed by Anthony Armbruster, 1764.

By Israel Pemberton
Newcastle Upon Tyne: I. Thompson and Co., 1756

This agreement discusses to who can live among the Native Americans, permits for liquor sales, and punishments for those who declare that the English are not their friends. It is signed by James Logan, William Penn's secretary, in the presence of five other colonists, and Widaagh or Orytyagh, Andaggyjunkquagh, CunnyaTagaagh, ConnotaghSaw, Moyonteequagh, and Misquohissy for the Susquehanna and Sheona

From "Brothers at Onohooquawge"
November 12, 1764
With two following letters

Many of the letters relate to Benezet's views on slavery and his work to end the slave trade.

By Benjamin Banneker
being the first after bissextile or leap-year : containing the motions of the sun and moon, the true places and aspects of the planets, the rising and setting of the sun, rising, setting, and southing of the moon, the lunations, conjunctions, and eclipses, and the rising, setting, and southing of the planets and noted fixed stars.
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, 1792.

1773

" shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves: with an address to the owners of such slaves: dedicated to the honourable the Continental Congress: to which is prefixed, the institution of the Society, in New York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated."
By Samuel Hopkins
Norwich, Conn: Printed by Judah P. Spooner, New York : Re-printed for R. Hodge, 1776

In January 1797, Job Albert, Thomas Pritchet, Jupiter Nicholson, and Jacob Nicholson sent a petition to Congress about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. This is an early draft on which Philadelphia Quakers also worked.

"a poem, expressive of our more than ordinary joy, on the repeal of the Stamp-Act : Together-with the praise of liberty, and two acrosticks."
By Thomas Plant
Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Steuart in the year, 1766

By John Dickinson
Boston, 1768

By John Fothergill
London: H. Kent, 1765.

By Thomas Paine
Philadelphia; Newcastle upon Tyne : re-printed by T. Robson and Co., for the Newcastle weekly magazine, 1776
A new edition

"Containing, the Bill of rights, a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of the British American colonies"

"wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption measures, are laid open to the plainest understandings; and the only means pointed out for preserving and securing our present happy constitution: in a letter to the farmers, and other inhabitants of North America in general, and to those of the province of New-York in particular "
By Samuel Seabury

Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, 1775

"or, An enquiry, how far the Americans are bound to abide by, and execute the decisions of, the late Congress?"
New-York: Printed by James Rivington, 1775

In answer to a question from Quakers

"being a collection of patriotic, martial, and naval songs and odes, principally of American composition"
By James Jefferson Wilson
Trenton: Comp. and Pub. by James J. Wilson, 1813