The Address of the People Called Quakers - 8
The Accusation of our having been profuse to Savages, and carefully avoiding to contribute to the Relief, and Support of the distressed Families on the Frontiers, who have abandoned their Possessions and fled for their Lives, is equally inviduous and mistaken: We very early and expeditiously prompted a Subscription, and contributed to the Relief of the Distresses of those who were plundered and fled from their Habitations in the beginning of the Indian War, which was- distributed aniong them in Provisions and Cloathing, and afforded a seasonable Relief; Divers among us in the City of Philadelphia also contributed with others the last Summer, and we are well assured that Money was raised and sent up by the Members of our Society in different Parts of the Country; and as soon as we were informed that the greatest Part of what had been voluntarily raised by the Citizens of Philadelphia was nearly expended, a Subscription was set on foot, the which several very generously contributed, and a large Sum might soon, have been raised, and was stoped [sic] only on Account of the Tumult which hath lately happened; and it hath been from our Regard to; our fellow Subjects on the Frontiers, and Sympathy with their afflicting Distresses, and a Concern for the general Welfare of the Province, that engaged our Brethern to raise the Money they applied to promote a Pacification with the Natives and no seperate Views of Interest to ourselves; but thus unhappily our most upright and disinterested Intentions are misconstrued and perverted, to impose
