Introduction / Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Foreword / June Burk Lloyd -- Slavery in Pennsylvania and the early abolitionist movement -- The early growth of the Underground Railroad -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania -- An open pathway for fugitives -- From discord toward dissolution -- The bloody road to emancipation -- Afterword / James McClure -- Appendix A : Reported Underground Railroad conductors in York County -- Appendix B : The slaveholder's prayer.
Committee: Jacob P. Ackerman, Harry L. Coho, William E. Nauman.
Cover title.
Laid in between front cover and flyleaf: The ministerium at work: News of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states, vol 21, no. 1, Philadelphia, Pa, January 20, 1946.
A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, 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
On the massacre of the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxton Boys" and the Indian policy of the Pennsylvania authorities.
"Signed on behalf of ourselves, and by appointment of a great number of the frontier inhabitants. Matthew Smith. James Gibson. February 13th, 1764"--Page 18.
Printer's name and place of publication supplied by Evans.
Signatures: A-B4 C2 (C2 blank).
Reproduction from Library of Congress by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions, date not specified.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Summary
These documents were created by representatives of the Paxton Boys as a written defence of their massacre of the Conestoga Indians. "A Declaration" was written before the Paxton Boys arrived in Germantown, and Matthew Smith and James Gibson completed the "Remonstrance" on February 13. Both documents were later published together as "A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania". This book is a facsimile of an early published copy of the texts.
Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight-nine, for the purpose of reviewing, and if they see occasion, altering and amending the constitution of this state
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...fifteenth day of July 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvvania...twentieth day of November 1787...Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania..twentieth-fourth day of November, 1789 - Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present constitution...Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1808.
