Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching PlatformMain MenuIntroductionWill FentonUsing Digital PaxtonHistorical OverviewWill FentonDigital CollectionKeywordsEducationTranscriptionsPublic OutreachRedrawing HistoryRedrawing History: Indigenous Perspectives on Colonial America, a two-year project funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, connects Native American artists with the Library Company’s rich collections and far-reaching scholarly community. Partnering with artist Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), author Lee Francis (Laguna Pueblo), and the indigenous publisher Native Realities Press, the Library Company will publish a graphic novel that reinterprets the Paxton massacre from the perspective of the Conestoga. Dr. Will Fenton, will serve as creative director, connecting the creative team with an advisory board of scholars, local tribal leaders, and educational specialists, and making new archival records accessible via his digital humanities project, Digital Paxton. Published, printed, and distributed by Native American businesses, the graphic novel will include a curriculum to facilitate use in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. Original artwork will be exhibited at the Library Company together with the original collection items that inspired it. And a slate of public programs, including a colloquium and public readings, will engage local audiences; conference presentations will bring the project and its model to academic audiences.ContactCreditsThe Historical Society of Pennsylvania and The Library Company of Philadelphia
A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 7
12017-03-19T08:01:57-07:00Will Fenton9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c72001(annotation)plain2017-03-19T08:01:57-07:00Will Fenton9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944cadded, that those of the Emperors’ Religion had behav’d in such a cold indifferent manner (a few in Weissenburg excepted) as plainly made it appear that they were as well affected to the Emperor as himself;---that their principles in Religion and the maxims by which they and their Ancestors were govern’d for one Thousand years, were peculiarly adapted to support the Emperial Family;-----that these things being consider’d, he cou’d not expect their firm attachment to his person, or their general concurrence to his measures; and therefore in good policy they ought not to be trusted at such a criminal conjuncture. He therefore desir’d the Council to to give their opinions, whether any other Sect was to be trusted as Magistrates in the Government, besides the Piss--brute-tarians, a Sect whose principles have ever been diametrically opposite to Monarchy; and not only * sworn Enemies to the Emperial Family, but murder’d one of their Emperors before his own palace; and have always been the foremost in all the Rebellions that have been rais’d against his Successors ever since. He also said, that there was a few of his Enemies, who have dared publickly to espouse the Emperor’s cause, and whom he “mark’d” out for punishment; he wish’d it cou’d be with the Loss of their heads, instead of their Commissions. The Enemies were Pottonius, Paulinus, Mortonus, and Trumponius, the last he was somewhat sorry for, as he suppos’d his Ancestors were great Musicians; for they had taken a name, to perpetuate their posterity, by which, some Nations call a Jews-Harp.
*This has reference to their solemn League and Covenant.
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12016-08-19T12:58:56-07:00Will Fenton9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944cA Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - 71A letter from a gentleman in Transilvania to his friend in America : giving some account of the late disturbances that have happen'd in that government, with some remarks upon the political revolutions in the magistracy, and the debates that happened about the change. Humbly inscribed to Counsellor Quondam by his friend Isaac Bickerstaff, of the Middle Temple.2016-08-19T12:58:56-07:00Hunt, Isaac, approximately 1742-1809.LCP Am 1764 Hun 1082.D.5New-York [i.e., Philadelphia], : Printed [by Anthony Armbruster], in the year 1764.Signed on p. 12: Jack Traveller. Weissenburgh in Transilvania, August 1st, 1764. Attributed to Isaac Hunt in the Dictionary of American biography. Ascribed to the press of Anthony Armbruster of Philadelphia by Evans. Signatures: [A]? B_.12 p. ; 17 cm (8vo)Evans, C. American bibliography, 9701; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W13301; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2007 2007137Will Fenton9e3bf7727b68fc64e416bcd18efaefb81d06944c