This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...of all parties engaged, but the writer has failed to find any reliable evidence to support the charge that behind the brutality of the Proprietaries' actions was the sordid land-lust of the Quakers.41 Moravian Missions to the Indians. In preparing a historical account of a subject about which tradition ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...of all parties engaged, but the writer has failed to find any reliable evidence to support the charge that behind the brutality of the Proprietaries' actions was the sordid land-lust of the Quakers.41 Moravian Missions to the Indians. In preparing a historical account of a subject about which tradition is silent and no records exist except of the most general character, a writer is fully justified in utilizing such information as may be obtainable by reasonable deduction and inferences. Such a modus operandi, openly avowed, cannot mislead; and it is from the source thus opened that a connection is deducible between the Pocono region and one of the most glorious and elevating pages of American history, albeit seldom referred to and little appreciated--the Moravian Missions to the North American Indians. "Good 127; Chap. 131. 11 "Many people in Pennsylvania had opposed the expedition (Sullivan's against the Indians in 1779) from the first. The Quakers of Philadelphia, averse to all war on principle, were especially so to any measure which looked towards punishing the Indians, who. they alleged, were far more deserving of pity than blame for whatever excesses they might be guilty of; while what was known in that state in the Wyoming Controversy as the Pennamite party, which included men possessing large wealth and much political influence, who held title under Pennsylvania for considerable tracts of land in the Wyoming Valley upon which the Connecticut people had settled, while they prof essed to commiserate the sufferings of the people, did not hesitate to express their satisfaction at being clear of the hated 'Intruders, ' and their perfect willingness that the Indians should keep them out of the disputed territory until the war...
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Add this copy of A Historical Account of the Pocono Region of to cart. $13.70, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of A Historical Account of the Pocono Region of to cart. $25.72, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
