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- Title
Letter to Farmers in Pennsylvania: John Dickinson Writes to the Paxton Boys.
- Authors
CALVERT, JANE E.
- Abstract
The article discusses a letter written by Pennsylvania Assemblyman John Dickinson cautioning the Paxton Boys, a group of Scots-Irish frontiersman, of ways in which their conflicts with Native Americans could lead to British military presence in the colony and violence against fellow white colonists. The article explores how Dickinson used religious and Biblical references in the letter to appeal to the Paxton Boys' sensibilities, comments on the influence of Quaker political power on Dickinson's writings, and discusses Dickinson's interactions with Governor John Penn.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; DICKINSON, John, 1732-1808; LETTERS; PAXTON Boys; SCOTS-Irish; COLONISTS; QUAKERS; PENN, John; NATIVE Americans; COLONIAL Pennsylvania, ca. 1600-1775; HISTORY
- Publication
Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, 2012, Vol 136, Issue 4, p475
- ISSN
0031-4587
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5215/pennmaghistbio.136.4.0475