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Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching Platform

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Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, near the market, MDCCLVII [1757]. Minutes of the treaty proceedings between the province of Pennsylvania and neighboring Indian tribes. Includes annotations from Benjamin Franklin, as noted in: The collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the Curtis Publishing Company (Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1918), 2, 137-138, 142. Signatures: [A]2 B-H2. Title vignette: province seal. With: Minutes of conferences held with the Indians at Harris's Ferry, and at Lancaster, in March, April, and May 1757. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757. -- Minutes of conferences held with the Indians at Easton, in the months of July and August, 1757. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757. -- Minutes of conferences held at Easton in October 1758. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1758. Cited in: Evans 7923; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1538; Miller, C.W. Franklin, 676.
Enjoining law officials to apprehend the murderers of six Conestoga Indians. Signed: John Penn. By His Honour's command, Joseph Shippen, secretary. Royal arms at head of title. Culture Class Collection copy is gift presented in 1903 by S. Weir Mitchell, and others, to the University of Pennsylvania Library, Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on verso which reads "Proclamation for apprehending the murderers of the Conestoga Indians. December 22, 1763." Not in Evans or Hildeburn. Cited in: Bristol, B2431; Miller, C.W. Franklin, 796; Shipton & Mooney, 41405; ESTC, W7604.
Opening trade with the Indians. Signed: John Penn. By His Honour's command, Joseph Shippen, Junior, secretary. At head of title: royal arms. Culture Class Collection copy is gift presented in 1903 by S. Weir Mitchell, and others, to the University of Pennsylvania Library, Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on verso which reads "Proclamation for opening a trade with the Indians. June 4, 1765." Cited in: Bristol, B2612; Shipton & Mooney, 41582; Miller, C.W.; Franklin, 847; Evans, 41582; ESTC, W7607.
London: printed for the author and sold by J. Millan ..., MDCCLXVI [1766]. Signatures: A-G. A dramatization of Pontiac's conspiracy. Title vignette; head-piece on p. [3]. Price from t.p. in square brackets: "Price 2 s. 6d." Printer's advertisement on final leaf. Culture Class Collection copy half-bound in red morocco over marbled boards; five raised bands on spine; six gold-tooled spine panels; brief title stamped in gilt in second spine panel; author stamped in gilt in third spine panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at base of spine; top edge gilt. Cited in: Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 253; Sabin, 72729.
Philadelphia: Printed by Anthony Armbruster, in Moravian Alley, 1764. Dated at end: Walnut-street, March, 25, 1764. Relating to the Paxton boys. Culture Class Collection copy is stitched and untrimmed; in cloth folder. Attributed to David Rice in William Harrison Taylor's Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801 (University Alabama Press, 2017; pp.32). Cited in: Evans, 9797; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2080; ESTC, W31613.