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Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching Platform Redrawing History Redrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America, a two-year project funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, connects Native American artists with the Library Company’s rich collections and far-reaching scholarly community. Partnering with artist Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), author Lee Francis (Laguna Pueblo), and the indigenous publisher Native Realities Press, the Library Company will publish a graphic novel that reinterprets the Paxton massacre from the perspective of the Conestoga. Dr. Will Fenton, will serve as creative director, connecting the creative team with an advisory board of scholars, local tribal leaders, and educational specialists, and making new archival records accessible via his digital humanities project, Digital Paxton. Published, printed, and distributed by Native American businesses, the graphic novel will include a curriculum to facilitate use in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. Original artwork will be exhibited at the Library Company together with the original collection items that inspired it. And a slate of public programs, including a colloquium and public readings, will engage local audiences; conference presentations will bring the project and its model to academic audiences.

Explanatory Remarks on the Assembly's Resolves

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1. An Act for Preventing Tumults and Riotous Assemblies
2. The Addition to the Epitaph "A burlesque in the form of a prayer to the Devil."--Hildeburn. Text begins: Thou great Prince of Darkness! Thou author of all rebellions and insurrections, whether Paxtonian or others! Thou Father of my friend the Kirk. Concerns the Paxton Boys' march on Philadelphia. The target of this satirical piece sided with the Paxton Boys, and opposed Benjamin Franklin's negotiations. At head of title, within an ornament (Reilly 120): The authentic one. Attributed by Evans to David James Dove. Imprint supplied by Evans.
3. An Address of Thanks to the Wardens of Christ Church and St. Peters An address of thanks to the wardens of Christ Church and St. Peters, : and the Reverend W----S----h. D.D. [i.e. William Smith] provost of the college and tool to the p----r, and J---b D---e A.M. and MV.D. [i.e. Jacob Duche] From F---- A.----n D.D. [i.e. Francis Alison] and J---n E----g [i.e. John Ewing] in their own name and in the name of all the Presbyterian ministers in Pennsylvania. ... Reverend and worthy gentlemen; Permit us to return you ... our most sincere thanks for opening your church doors to dissenters in general, and us on particular ... to carry into execution a scheme of the utmost importance for the advantage of our profession; the down-fall of monarchy; and the support of a republican government ...
4. By the Honourable John Penn By the Honourable John Penn, Esq; lieutenant-governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, a proclamation. : Whereas on the twenty-second day of December last I issued a proclamation, for the apprehending and bringing to justice a number of persons, who ... had inhumanely killed six of the Indians, who had lived in Conestogoe Manor ... Given under my hand, and the great seal of the said province, at Philadelphia, the second day of January ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four.
5. Ein Schon weltlich Lied
6. Eine Lustige Aria
8. The Life and Adventures of a Certain Quaker Presbyterian Indian Colonel
9. A New Song in High Vogue in Northampton County
10. Protestation gegen die Bestellung Herrn Benjamin Franklin German Translation of: Protest, presented to the House of Assembly [of Pennsylvania], by the subscribers, at the close of the late debate there, concerning the sending of Mr. Franklin as an assistant to our agent, at the court of Great-Britain (Bristol B2512). Caption title. Signed and dated: Den 20ten October, 1764. John Dickinson [and nine others]. Followed on p. [2-4] by "Anmerkungen uber eine neuliche Protestation gegen die Bestellung Herrn Benjamin Franklins zu einem Agenten fur diese Provinz," a translation of Franklin's "Remarks on a late protest against the appointment of Mr. Franklin an agent for this province" (Evans 9669). Signed and dated on p. [4]: Philadelphia, am 5 Nov. 1764. B. Franklin. Imprint supplied by Evans. Erroneously filmed by Readex Microprint Corp. for Evans 9803, which records a German language broadside which apparently includes only the protest, and which is ascribed to the press of Henry Miller at Philadelphia. Evans, C. American bibliography, 9668; Evans, C. American bibliography, 9803; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1993; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W21040.
11. The Quakers Grace, Prayer, and Thanksgiving
12. To William Denny - 14 July 1758 Caption title. "Signed on behalf and by appointment of the said trustees and treasurer, by Abel James, clerk. Philadelphia, the 14th of the seventh month, 1757." Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall by Evans. The ascription is disputed by Miller, who states that "it appears to be the work of either Anthony Armbruster or Christopher Saur." Evans, C. American bibliography, 8005; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W17836; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1565; Smith, J. Descriptive catalogue of Friends' books, 2.462; Miller, C.W. Franklin, B75.

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