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• 1 2019-01-13T20:17:21-08:00 Transcribing the Paxton Boys 6 Benjamin Bankhurst, Kyle Roberts, and Eleanor Andersen image_header 2019-02-09T14:08:41-08:00 This lesson is appropriate for mid- to high-performing history students. The assignment will require one 45-minute period with homework, or one 90-minute period with additional closure on another day. This assignment pairs well with An Interview with the Paxton Boys.
  
  Relevant Standards
  • CC 8.1.9.B through 8.1.9.D.
  • CC.8.5.9-10.B.
  • CC.8.5.9-10.D.
  • CC.8.6.9-10.C.
  • CC.8.6.9-10.E.
  
  Questions
  • How do we analyze and evaluate sources?
  • How do we interact with historical memory?
  • How do we navigate and interpret archives and the sources they contain? 
  
  Learning Objectives
  • Students will decipher the literal and practical meaning of eighteenth-century printed text.
  • Students will analyze and evaluate bias in primary sources.
  • Students will successfully navigate a digital archive.
  
  Differentiation
  Allow students to phase from guided practice into independent work. Engage with struggling students until they demonstrate ability to reliably transcribe and interpret a passage.
  
  Primary Source Materials
  • Penn Proclamation, June 4, 1765
  
  Secondary Source Materials (optional)
  • Transcription Best Practices
  • The Black Boys of 1765
  
  Assignment Materials
  • Google Drive or other file sharing service
  • Projector and presentation slides for guided practice
  • Entry Ticket
  • Laptops equipped with Internet access

  Download a printable version of this background information.

• 1 2017-03-29T06:16:54-07:00 Paxtons and Politics 2 plain 2017-03-29T06:20:05-07:00 Benjamin Franklin, lacking confidence in the proprietors’ ability to manage the unrest, began lobbying for royalization. The push for royalization was unlikely, however, given that royalization would have entailed a standing army and perhaps even the establishment of the Church of England.

  Hugh Williamson, The Plain Dealer, Numb. I (Philadelphia, 1764).

  Hugh Williamson published this multi-part pamphlet shortly after the Resolves of Assembly on the royalization (March 24). He blames Quaker misrule for reports of settlers fleeing the colony.

  James Claypoole, The German Bleeds & Bears Ye Furs (Philadelphia, 1764).

  Claypoole’s engraving serves as a visual counterpart to Plain Dealer. A Quaker rides a rifle-wielding Scotch-Irish Presbyterian. He is tethered to a tomahawk-clad Indian, who rides a blind-folded German. Benjamin Franklin stands to the left, clutching the Resolves of the Assembly.

  Anonymous, An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled ‘The Conduct of the Paxton Men’ (Philadelphia, 1764).

  This anonymous anti-Paxton pamphlet answers Conduct by denouncing the Paxtons and defending the Quakers. The writer corrects misrepresentations through a series of rhetorical questions: “Is the Governor a Quaker? Is his Council Quakers? Is the Majority of the Assembly Quakers?”