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As our late Conduct at the Conestogo Mannor & Lancaster has occasioned much Speculation, & a great Diversity of Sentiments in this & the neighbouring Governments; some vindicating & others condemning it; some charitably alleviating the Crime, & others maliciously painting it, in the most odious & detestable Colours; we think it our Duty to lay before the Public the whole matter as it appeared, & still appears, to us.
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John Stinton’s widow swore an Indian named Renatus murdered her husband; Renatus was later tried at Easton by a jury of white men and freed. See Edmund De Schweinitz, The Life and Times of David geisberger: The Western Pioneer and Apostle of the Indians (Philadelphia, 1870), pp. 278–280; John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians (Philadelphia, 1820), pp. 67–75; and George Henry Loskiel, History of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Indians in North America (London, 1794), pp. 208–214. All three of these volumes are valuable. I prefer De Schweinitz, which, according to his preface, is “based upon original manuscripts, preserved in the archives of the Moravian Churches at Bethlehem and other places” and is a broader and less personalized account than the other two.
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© 1957 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Dunbar, J.R. (1957). The Apology of the Paxton Volunteers. In: Dunbar, J.R. (eds) The Paxton Papers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1005-9_16
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