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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.

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The following issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette were digitized by the American Antiquarian Society thanks to the support of a Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. (Please reference Credits for complete acknowledgements.)

One of the most prominent newspapers in colonial America, the Pennsylvania Gazette was printed by Benjamin Franklin himself. Given Franklin’s active participation in the Paxton debate, his paper offers a backdrop against which to read his arguments and to measure changes in colonial settlement policy. The Gazette also offers a rich, weekly record of affairs within in the colony and across the Atlantic.

The publication traverses the Paxton print debate (1763-64) and situates that massacre in a wider context of indigenous warfare. The 22 curated issues span from Pontiac’s Rebellion (June 9, 1763) through the 1764 election results (December 27, 1764).

	We have currently digitized 22 issues of the Gazette, arranged chronologically in the path below "Contents."

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This manuscript offers a critique of A Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania (1759). A Historical review was anonymously published, but it has been credited to either Benjamin Franklin or Richard Jackson. Written in the wake of the politically divisive 1750s, the pamphlet attacked the proprietors of Pennsylvania and the proprietary nature of the colonial government and defended the actions of the Assembly and Quaker Party during the Seven Years' War. The manuscript in the APS's vault was written in 1759 or 1760, likely in London. It defends the proprietor and the government in general. Largely unknown to historians, this manuscript provides insight into the deep political divisions within colonial Pennsylvania by offering a clear view into the beliefs of the proprietors and the proprietary party. The anonymous author of the work is almost certainly Thomas Penn. The manuscript was never published.
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Caption title. Signed on p. 7: B. Franklin. Philadelphia, Nov, 5, 1764. Ascribed to the press of Franklin by Evans and Miller. For an account of this work see: Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 1889, p. 123, and Ford, P.L., ed. The writings of John Dickinson, 1895, v. 1, p. [147]-157. Signatures: [A]? ([A]4 verso blank). Evans, C. American bibliography, 9669; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W2487; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1994; Miller, C.W. Franklin, 808.
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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.
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Attributed to Smith by Evans. Two states of gathering A noted. In the first, p. 3 ends with the word "Protesters", and the last word of text on p. 5 is "charter"; in the second, p. 3 ends with "assembly", and p. 5 ends with the added phrase "which has put that matter wholly out of their power." Two states of gathering C noted. The second contains a note on p. 22 not present in the first. Also, two lines of verse have been shifted from p. 22 to p. 21. Evans (entry 9842) describes this variant as a second impression. Signatures: A-C? (C4 blank). Evans, C. American bibliography, 9841; Evans, American bibliography, 9842; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W11639; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1952; Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 84586.
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