1765 PAXTON BOYS MASSACRE. Quakers Defend Indian Rights and Charge Presbyterians with Racism, &c. Sermons Considered and Improved

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1765 PAXTON BOYS MASSACRE. Quakers Defend Indian Rights and Charge Presbyterians with Racism, &c. Sermons Considered and ImprovedA very scarce work, not offered at auction since 1965, involving the disastrous Paxton Boys Massacre of the Conestoga Indians. Tensions between Quakers and Presbyterians by the mid 1760's had reached a boiling point. Pennsylvania had been founded as a Quaker colony, and though Quakers were declining as a proportion of the population, they retained enormous political and economic influence. The Presbyterians, largely Scots Irish and concentrated in the