Some Chapters in the History of the Friendly Association e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Having endeavored to trace the causes which aliena ted the Indians from the settlers, it remains to show the action of Friends in the premises. In 1755, Israel Pemberton writes: The frequent melancholy accounts of the barbarous murthers committed by Indians in the western and northern portions of this Province, filled the minds of people in general, with indignation and resentment against them, and no opportunity presented of publicly manifesting the earnest concern we had, to use our utmost endeavors.