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

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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."

Contents of this path:

  1. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 16, 1763
  2. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 9, 1763
  3. The Pennsylvania Gazette - June 30, 1763
  4. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 7, 1763
  5. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 21, 1763
  6. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 28, 1763
  7. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 4, 1763
  8. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 11, 1763
  9. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 18, 1763
  10. The Pennsylvania Gazette - August 25, 1763
  11. The Pennsylvania Gazette - October 13, 1763
  12. The Pennsylvania Gazette - October 27, 1763
  13. The Pennsylvania Gazette - November 24, 1763
  14. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 8, 1763
  15. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 12, 1763
  16. The Pennsylvania Gazette - February 9, 1764
  17. The Pennsylvania Gazette - March 1, 1764
  18. The Pennsylvania Gazette - March 15, 1764
  19. The Pennsylvania Gazette - April 12, 1764
  20. The Pennsylvania Gazette - May 24, 1764
  21. The Pennsylvania Gazette - July 12, 1764
  22. The Pennsylvania Gazette - December 27, 1764

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  1. Franklin's Royal Problem Will Fenton
  2. Criticism of Benjamin Franklin's Historical Review [Thomas Penn?] Will Fenton
  3. Franklin Reprimanded Will Fenton
  4. Remarks on a late protest against the appointment of Mr. Franklin Will Fenton
  5. Protestation gegen die Bestellung Herrn Benjamin Franklin Will Fenton
  6. Remarks on a Late Protest Against the Appointment of Mr. Franklin Will Fenton
  7. An Answer to Mr. Franklin's Remarks on a Late Protest Will Fenton
  8. Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, June 27, 1763 Will Fenton
  9. Benjamin Franklin to Richard Jackson, February 11, 1764 Will Fenton
  10. Franklin and the Quakers Will Fenton

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