Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
12018-01-13T15:38:47-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2018-01-13T15:38:47-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650abefore the Provincial Commissioners, and at their Board it was agreed that the latter, some of them being Members of Assembly, should lay the Matter before the House, with their Opinion thereon, that it was "absolutely necessary that these Indians should be removed into the interior Parts of the Province,—where their Behaviour might be more closely observed."—Upon which the House resolved, "that the Expence of their Removal and Support while it should be necessary, be defrayed by the Government." And it is well known to the Governor and the Board of Commissioners, that the Quakers never interfered in the Matter, nor indeed had they the least Connection with these Indians. This, Reverend Sirs, is the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, relative to the Transaction you impute to Quakers.—It was a meer Act of Government to prevent the Evacuation of the Settlements adjoining to Nain and Weketank, and indeed of the whole County of Northampton. How then could you charge this Fact to the Quakers without Blushing? You might with equal Justice and Reason impute the Murders at Conestogoe and Lancaster, or the late Death of the Emperor of Muscovy, to them.
BUT since you are so violent in censuring the Measures taken by the Government, permit me to ask you, What Method would your Wisdom, Prudence and Humanity have dictated to you, had you had the Power in your Hands? The bringing of them down to Philadelphia it seems you censure as highly criminal, and therefore no doubt but this would be your last Resolution: Would you have driven them into the Woods, and obliged them to seek Protection from the Enemy, and of Consequence to unite with them in their Barbarities against us? You certainly would not have done this: Common Prudence, nay common Sense forbid it.—A Measure of this Kind which would strip them of the Necessaries they had laid up for the Winter Season, must have justly enraged them and rendered them our most dangerous and inveterate Foes.
Contents of this annotation:
12016-08-19T13:01:47-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aAn Address to the Rev. Dr. Alison - 331An address to the Rev. Dr. Alison, the Rev. Mr. Ewing, and others, trustees of the Corporation for the Relief of Presbyterian Ministers, their Widows and Children : being a vindication of the Quakers from the aspersions of the said trustees in their letter published in th London chronicle, no. 1223. To which is prefixed, the said letter. By a lover of truth. [One line in Latin].2016-08-19T13:01:47-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
