The History Of Pennsylvania In North America From The Original Institution And Settlement Of That Province Under The First Proprietor And Governor William Penn In 1681 Till After The Year 1742 Of 2 Volume 2

Hardcover reprint of the original 1797-1798 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Proud, Robert. The History Of Pennsylvania, In North America,: From The Original Institution And Settlement Of That Province, Under The First Proprietor And Governor William Penn, In 1681, Till After The Year 1742: With An Introduction, Respecting, The Life Of The Late W. Penn, Prior To The Grant Of The Province, And The Religious Society Of The People Called Quakers; --With The First Rise Of The Neighbouring Colonies, More Particularly Of West-New-Jersey, And The Settlement Of The Dutch And Swedes On Delaware.: To Which Is Added, A Brief Description Of The Said Province, And Of The General State, In Which It Flourished, Principally Between The Years 1760 And 1770.: The Whole Including A Variety Of Things, Useful And Interesting To Be Known, Respecting That Country In Early Time, Etc.: With An Appendix, Volume 2. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Proud, Robert. The History Of Pennsylvania, In North America,: From The Original Institution And Settlement Of That Province, Under The First Proprietor And Governor William Penn, In 1681, Till After The Year 1742: With An Introduction, Respecting, The Life Of The Late W. Penn, Prior To The Grant Of The Province, And The Religious Society Of The People Called Quakers; --With The First Rise Of The Neighbouring Colonies, More Particularly Of West-New-Jersey, And The Settlement Of The Dutch And Swedes On Delaware.: To Which Is Added, A Brief Description Of The Said Province, And Of The General State, In Which It Flourished, Principally Between The Years 1760 And 1770.: The Whole Including A Variety Of Things, Useful And Interesting To Be Known, Respecting That Country In Early Time, Etc.: With An Appendix, Volume 2. Philadelphia:: Printed And Sold By Zachariah Poulson, Junior, Number Eighty, Chesnut-Street., 1797-1798.

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William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violence during the French and Indian War. In 1763, a group of frontier settlers known as the Paxton Boys exterminated the last twenty Conestogas, descendants of Indians who had lived peacefully since the 1690s on land donated by William Penn near Lancaster. Invoking the principle of "right of conquest," the Paxton Boys claimed after the massacres that the Conestogas' land was rightfully theirs. They set out for Philadelphia, threatening to sack the city unless their grievances were met. A delegation led by Benjamin Franklin met them and what followed was a war of words, with Quakers doing battle against Anglican and Presbyterian champions of the Paxton Boys. The killers were never prosecuted and the Pennsylvania frontier descended into anarchy in the late 1760s, with Indians the principal victims. The new order heralded by the Conestoga massacres was consummated during the American Revolution with the destruction of the Iroquois confederacy. At the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States confiscated the lands of Britain's Indian allies, basing its claim on the principle of "right of conquest." Based on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this engaging history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of colonists and Indians living together in peace.