The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

CHAPTER XXV.

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1764.

THE RIOTERS MARCH ON PHILADELPHIA.

_Excitement of the Borderers._--_Their Designs._--_Alarm of the Quakers._--_The Converts sent to New York._--_The Converts forced to Return._--_Quakers and Presbyterians._--_Warlike Preparation._-- _Excitement in the City._--_False Alarm._--_Paxton Men at Germantown._--_Negotiations with the Rioters._--_Frontiersmen in Philadelphia._--_Paper Warfare._--_Memorials of the Paxton Men._ 371