A Declaration and Remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding Frontier Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania, Presented by them to the Honourable the Governor and Assembly of the Province, Shewing the Causes of their late Discontent and Uneasiness and the Grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redres'd.
Philadelphia]: 1764. 18, [2] pp., 8vo (200 x 130 mm). Stitched self-wrappers, uncut, as issued. Housed in a cloth folding case, morocco gilt spine label. Condition : very minor tear to title. Provenance : early owner’s ink inscription on the title giving the dates when the Declaration was submitted to the Governor and the Assembly, and inscription on the terminal leaf suggesting additional authorship of the pamphlet by “B[enjamin] C[hew] / Atty Genl.”; Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby’s New York, 21 May 1999, lot 175). the siebert copy of the published formal petition of the paxton boys. The Declaration of Grievances, which precedes the Remonstrance (discussed at length in the preceding lot), is largely a review of the facts of the massacre and march from the frontier perspective. The early owner’s suggestion that Benjamin Chew co-authored this pamphlet is intriguing and would be a new discovery. Chew (1722-1810) was raised a Quaker but became Anglican over the issue of self-defense. At the time of the uprising he served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania and was among those who accompanied Benjamin Franklin to negotiate with the Paxton Boys in Germantown to persuade them to lay down their arms. Following the peaceful negotiations, Chew is said to have delivered an address to the assembled soldiers to thank them but inform them that the Paxton men were no longer enemies. “Despite Franklin’s unsympathetic attitude toward the rioters, [Smith and Gibson] had asked his help in drafting the papers, but ‘Persons more suitable to their purposes’ were found” (Hindle). An ardent supporter of the Proprietors, and therefore more sympathetic to the frontier cause, and well-versed in the proper format and language that such a petition required, it would have been logical for Chew to have assisted Smith and Gibson. [See the preceding lot for an early draft of the document, half of which appears to be in Chew’s hand]. “Renewed hostilites between East and West were touched off by the submission of the Declaration and Remonstrance that Smith and Gibson had stayed behind to write … After having promised to consider a petition, the government refused to take any action whatever” (Hindle). very rare and a desirable copy . Evans 9630; Sabin 19163; Siebert Sale 175; Streeter Sale 967. See Hindle, “The March of the Paxton Boys” in The William & Mary Quarterly, third series, vol. 3, no. 4.
A Declaration and Remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding Frontier Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania, Presented by them to the Honourable the Governor and Assembly of the Province, Shewing the Causes of their late Discontent and Uneasiness and the Grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redres'd.
Philadelphia]: 1764. 18, [2] pp., 8vo (200 x 130 mm). Stitched self-wrappers, uncut, as issued. Housed in a cloth folding case, morocco gilt spine label. Condition : very minor tear to title. Provenance : early owner’s ink inscription on the title giving the dates when the Declaration was submitted to the Governor and the Assembly, and inscription on the terminal leaf suggesting additional authorship of the pamphlet by “B[enjamin] C[hew] / Atty Genl.”; Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby’s New York, 21 May 1999, lot 175). the siebert copy of the published formal petition of the paxton boys. The Declaration of Grievances, which precedes the Remonstrance (discussed at length in the preceding lot), is largely a review of the facts of the massacre and march from the frontier perspective. The early owner’s suggestion that Benjamin Chew co-authored this pamphlet is intriguing and would be a new discovery. Chew (1722-1810) was raised a Quaker but became Anglican over the issue of self-defense. At the time of the uprising he served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania and was among those who accompanied Benjamin Franklin to negotiate with the Paxton Boys in Germantown to persuade them to lay down their arms. Following the peaceful negotiations, Chew is said to have delivered an address to the assembled soldiers to thank them but inform them that the Paxton men were no longer enemies. “Despite Franklin’s unsympathetic attitude toward the rioters, [Smith and Gibson] had asked his help in drafting the papers, but ‘Persons more suitable to their purposes’ were found” (Hindle). An ardent supporter of the Proprietors, and therefore more sympathetic to the frontier cause, and well-versed in the proper format and language that such a petition required, it would have been logical for Chew to have assisted Smith and Gibson. [See the preceding lot for an early draft of the document, half of which appears to be in Chew’s hand]. “Renewed hostilites between East and West were touched off by the submission of the Declaration and Remonstrance that Smith and Gibson had stayed behind to write … After having promised to consider a petition, the government refused to take any action whatever” (Hindle). very rare and a desirable copy . Evans 9630; Sabin 19163; Siebert Sale 175; Streeter Sale 967. See Hindle, “The March of the Paxton Boys” in The William & Mary Quarterly, third series, vol. 3, no. 4.
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