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Manuscripts

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The following manuscripts were authored by numerous figures directly and indirectly involved in the Paxton debates, including Benjamin Franklin, Israel Pemberton, Thomas Penn, Sam Patterson. Some correspondence predates and postdates the pamphlet war.
 
 We have currently digitized 16 manuscripts, arranged chronologically in the path below "Contents."

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  1. Israel Pemberton, Captive Inquiry
  2. Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, June 27, 1763
  3. Thomas McKee to James Burd, July 9, 1763
  4. Joseph Shippen Jr. to James Burd, October 21, 1763
  5. Thomas Penn correspondence, December 18, 1763
  6. Thomas Penn correspondence, December 23, 1763
  7. The Congregational Diary of Lancaster Moravian Church, December 27-28 , 1763
  8. Letter from Matthaus Hehl to the Church Leadership, December 29, 1763
  9. Letter from Albrecht Ludolph Russmeyer to Nathanael Seidel, January 2, 1764
  10. Joseph Shippen Jr. to Colonel James Burd, January 3, 1764
  11. Apology of the Paxton Volunteers
  12. Petition by the Inhabitants of Lancaster County
  13. Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, February 11, 1764
  14. Thomas Penn correspondence, March 17, 1764
  15. Thomas Penn correspondence, May 5, 1764
  16. Sam Patterson to Levi Hollingsworth, June 28, 1774