{"product_id":"1775-quaker-mss-fine-17pp-commonplace","title":"1775 QUAKER MSs. Fine 17pp Commonplace Addressing Outbreak of American Revolution.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 17pp previously undocumented American Quaker resistance commonplace book with texts selected both indicating against Governmental tyranny and in sympathy with Revolution, but also toward encouraging the faithful in American to patient suffering by the example of the Quaker sufferers of the 17th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeatly handwritten, almost certainly by George Miller, Clerk of the Providence, Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting House. It has been neatly penned on 9 leaves of Pro Patria paper corresponding with the watermark issued during the 1760's and up until c.1775, with the Maid of Dort seated inside fence with a spear, and counter-marked with a non-integrated crown, indicating it as for the British and American markets. This design was phased out 1775\/1776 in favor of a watermark integrating the maid, fence, and spear, inside a larger cartouche. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe document itself has come to us with a mass of other material related to the Quaker interaction with the emerging revolution in the aftermath of Concord. Other documents include petitions of support for suffering Quakers, broadsides urging fellow Quakers to stay true to their non-political and non-military Christian commitments, calls for support and relief of Quakers who have been imprisoned for non-payment of \"blood taxes\" to support the revolution, etc., All of which originated with George Miller's papers and effects, though the present is not signed by him. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extracts match the moment precisely, perhaps with the aside of the Native American extract. Though the same pro-Revolutionary Presbyterians resisted militarily by the Quakers were also substantially more intolerant of the Native American population in Pennsylvania. See the Paxton Boys Massacre of 1764, etc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe four timely, lengthy extracts as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. A \u003ci\u003eKing Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books\u003c\/i\u003e by Sir Richard Blackmore [1697]. 260 lines, containing largely the speech of Reverend Olban, beginning appropriately with the lines,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eExtract:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe ceas’d. And Reverend Olbar rose and Spoke.-\u003cbr\u003eThe Gospel genius and a Christian mind\u003cbr\u003eAll fierce Destructive Methods still declined.\u003cbr\u003eOur founder did not raise his Royal Throne\u003cbr\u003eBy his opposers sufferings, but his own.\u003cbr\u003eHe gave his Church no arms for her defence,\u003cbr\u003eBut wisdom joyn’d with dove-like innocence; \u003cbr\u003eHe always taught his followers to profess\u003cbr\u003eMeekness divine, and god-like gentleness\u003cbr\u003eWhen urged by eager Zealots to employ\u003cbr\u003eFire from Heaven, opposer to destroy\u003cbr\u003eHe used not other flames but those of love\u003cbr\u003eThe gentle fire he brought from above\u003c\/i\u003e, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2. \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCreation. A Philosophical Poem in Seven Books\u003c\/i\u003e by Sir Richard Baker [1712]. 30 lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe lines here recorded are easily applied to the courting of the pro-revolutionary Americans of the Quakers to join the cause and their subsequent persecution via imprisonment, financial seizure, and social isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith amorous language and bewitching smiles\u003cbr\u003eAttractive airs and all the lover’s wiles\u003cbr\u003eThe fair Egyptian Jacob’s son caress’t\u003cbr\u003eHung on his neck and lanquish’d on his breast\u003cbr\u003eWith freedom courted now the beauteous slave\u003cbr\u003eThen flatt’ring sued, and threat’ning now did rave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot all the various eleoquence of love\u003cbr\u003eNor power enraged could his fixt virtue move\u003cbr\u003eSee aw’d by Heaven! The blooming Hebrew flies\u003cbr\u003eHer artful tongue and more persuasive eyes\u003cbr\u003eAnd springing from her disappointed arms\u003cbr\u003ePrefers a dungeon to forbidden Charms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStedfast in Vertue’s and his Country’s cause\u003cbr\u003eThe illustrious founder of the Jewish laws\u003cbr\u003eWho taught by Heaven at genuine greatness aim’d\u003cbr\u003eWith worthy pride emperial blood disclaim’d\u003cbr\u003eThe illuring hopes of Pharoah’s Throne resigned\u003cbr\u003eAnd the vain pleasures of a court declined,\u003cbr\u003ePleased with obscure recess to ease the pains\u003cbr\u003eOf Jacob’s race and break their servile chains\u003cbr\u003eSuch generous minds are form’s where blest religion reigns.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3. An Indian Answer to Calvinistic Christianity, 1710. 4.5pp. It contains the speech of an Indian Chief delivered in response to the Swiss missionary Jonas Auren, after his sermon delivered at the signing of a treaty with the Indians at Conestoga in 1710. The sermon and the Chief’s reply were apparently both printed c.1740. The MSs contains only the Chief’s reply, likely indicating some measure of approval of its contents by George Miller, since the other three works all quotations favorable to the local Quaker perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4. Testimony of Quaker Martyr, Robert Smith, burnt to Death for the ancient testimony of the Quakers. 5pp. For the Quakers, Robert Smith was used as an example of godly non-resistant suffering during the Glorious Revolution, and is invoked here, at the onset of the American Revolution as well. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50906422018084,"sku":null,"price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/06-25-2026SpecsFineBooks-7.jpg?v=1782423787","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1775-quaker-mss-fine-17pp-commonplace","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}