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Board of Trade and Plantations. Response to Benjamin Franklin's petition to open an inquiry into the Indian complaints
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Board of Trade and Plantations. Response to Benjamin Franklin's petition to open an inquiry into the Indian complaints
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A fair copy; incomplete.
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Benjamin Franklin Petition to the King's most Excellent Majesty in Counsel…on behalf of the Indians
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A contemporary copy.
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Conrad Weiser response to Charles Thomson's Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawnees Indians
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A collection of correspondence, documents, and maps related to the Walking Purchase and the Councils of Easton retained by the office of Pennsylvania's governor William Denny (in office from August 1756 to October 1759). The bulk of the collection consists of the records of the Council of Easton (August 1757) and the inquiry into the legality of the Walking Purchase authorized by Denny. It contains affidavits, sworn testimony, exhibits, memorandum, correspondence, and notes; this material includes original documents dating back to the time of the fraudulent land deal as well as some military correspondence. The collection also includes several documents and letters concerning Native American troubles on the frontier in the 1740s, along with their protests to the Proprietors over rum being sold to their people. Important persons in the collection include, among others, William Allen, Benjamin Chew, George Croghan, William Denny, Benjamin Franklin, James Hamilton, William Markham, Israel Pemberton, Thomas Penn, Richard Peters, Nicholas Scull, Teedyuscung (Delaware Chief), George Thomas, and Conrad Weiser. Almost all of the material in the collection is docketed and bears the initials or signatures of W. H. Rolph, followed by hyphenated numbers. The collection also contains oversize material and a small group of 20th century newspaper clippings about the Walking Purchase and the material in this collection.
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List of persons present and an account of the opening of the Easton conference with the Indians
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Document in the hand of Conrad Weiser.
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