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Alden T Vaughan FRONTIER BANDITTI and the INDIANS: THE
Alden T Vaughan COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FRONTIER BANDITTI AND THE INDIANS: THE PAXTON BOYS' LEGACY, 1763-1775 QN September 13, 1766, Secretary of State for the Southern 0 }Department, Lord Shelburne, addressed a circular letter to the governors of Britain's North American colonies. "His Majesty's Super- intendents for Indian Affairs," he wrote with evident consternation, report "that the most unprovoked violences and Murthers have lately been committed on the Indians . .. whose Tribes are at present in Peace and Amity with His Majesty's Provinces, and that the offenders have not yet been discovered and brought to Justice." The danger was imminent and immense. In conjunction with frequent encroachments on Indian lands and sharp practices by colonists engaged in the Indian trade, recent crimes against friendly Indians threatened to embroil British America in a massive Indian war. Through Shelburne's letter, King George commanded his governors "to remedy and prevent those Evils, which are as contrary to the Rules of good Policy as of Justice and Equity."' Pennsylvania was one of the most culpable colonies.2 Until the 1750s, William Penn's American province had enjoyed unparalleled peace with its Indian inhabitants; when abuses of Indians occasionally occurred, colonial authorities had generally administered impartial justice.3 That idyllic picture changed dramatically in the mid 1750s. The French and Indian War brought several years of frontier carnage that returned, after a brief lapse, during Pontiac's uprising of 1763. Although peace was soon restored, interracial harmony was not. Frontier frustrations and racial antagonism reached a symbolic climax in December 1763 when a band of Lancaster County ruffians slaugh- tered twenty friendly Indians and attempted, several weeks later, to I 2 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY wreak the same vigilante violence on 140 Christian Indians sheltered in Philadelphia. -
The Annals of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
F157 1B25 S3 1907 ! , . THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 4 " It ( e0'''' ' . I ' BB- 1'856..''.' - " - , ,!, . , . I . I I I e , , " , ` , i 11 11i : 7 1 I , I- 11 -11." , , .1 10, j or: The Peomsylvanid State (ollee Class N Book No. Accession No.A'4 2-7 I , I tf 17oncUSTEAT'E *- ~-JI'mr UOWSIYjJ( @, ;'gl i \ . .. dC .,i!:, i,, ' as'. 5, . , ' .'':':; Xrs ::. A; ; 0 gS WF: : I'm' L , W D':: Y -E C,' V 0 ;:a't:i: AW08UX 1, , i' HON. WILLIAM P. SCHELL THE BLUE JUNIATA By Mrs. Marion Dix Sullivan Wild roved an Indian girl, Bright Alfarata, Where sweep the waters Of the Blue Juniata; Swift as an antelope, Through the forest going, Loose were her jetty locks In wavy tresses flowing. Gay was the mountain song, Of bright Alfarata, Where sweep the waters Of the Blue Juniata, Strong and true my arrows are, In my painted quiver, Swift goes my light canoe, Adown the rapid river. Bold is my warrior, good, The love of Alfarata, Proud waves his snowy plume Along the Juniata; Soft and low he speaks to me, And then his war-cry sounding, Rings his voice in thunder loud, From height to height resounding. So sang the Indian girl, Bright Alfarata, Where sweep the waters Of the Blue Juniata; Fleeting years have borne away The voice of Alfarata, Still sweeps the river on, The Blue Juniata. The Annals of Bedford County, Pennsylvania Consisting of Condensed Sketches of the Most Important Events Which Occurred Dur- ing the Century From January 1750 to 1850 Prepared for OLD HOME WEEK August 4-10, 1907 BY HON. -
University of Dundee Laws, Courts and Communities in The
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Dundee Online Publications University of Dundee Laws, Courts and Communities in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, ca.1750-1800 Ward, Matthew C. Published in: Journal of Early American History DOI: 10.1163/18770703-00601004 Publication date: 2016 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication in Discovery Research Portal Citation for published version (APA): Ward, M. C. (2016). Laws, Courts and Communities in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, ca.1750-1800. Journal of Early American History, 60(1), 40-67. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00601004 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 05. Apr. 2019 Laws, Courts and Communities in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, ca.1750-1800 Matthew C. Ward In the early 1790s across western Pennsylvania groups calling themselves the “Whiskey Boys” intimidated and attacked both people and property, particularly collectors of the hated whiskey excise tax. -
[Pennsylvania County Histories]
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