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Sale 2708 - Lot 96

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Now in the Press . . . The Life and Adventures of a Certain Quaker Presbyterian Indian Colonel. Letterpress broadside, 15¼ x 10 inches, signed in type by "Tim Trimmer" and docketed on verso "Given out at the election 1766"; wear at folds without substantial loss of text, dampstaining, foxing, edge wear; uncut; dated in a contemporary manuscript hand. No place, [1 October 1766]
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A satirical broadside promoting an imaginary book, distributed at the 1766 Pennsylvania Assembly election. Its target is not named, although it would have likely been obvious to voters at the time. Some early sources such as Sabin state that it was aimed at Patriot leader John Dickinson, but recent scholarship names the target as Pennsylvania Quaker leader Israel Pemberton Jr. (1715-1779).

An influential Quaker, Pemberton was an opponent of the long-running frontier wars with the American Indians and clashed with the powerful Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Sir William Johnson. Pemberton's dealings with the Indians are described in the summary of the imaginary book's Chapter Fourth, "How he prosecuted his Measures with the Indians, in Order to procure the Removal of Sir William Johnson" and "held a Correspondence with the Natives in the Time of open War. . . . How he supplied them with Tomhawks, and other offensive Weapons."

Evans 10433; Sabin 96975. 2 in ESTC (Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Library Company) and none traced at auction.

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