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French and Indian cruelty : exemplified in the life and various vicissitudes of fortune of Peter Williamson : containing a particular account of the manners, customs and dress of the savages : of their scalping, burning and other barbarities committed on the English in North America during his residence among them : being at eight years of age stolen from his parents and sent to Pennsylvania, where he was sold as a slave : afterwards married and settled as a planter till the Indians destroyed his house and every thing he had and carried him off a captive : from whom after several months captivity he made his escape and serv'd as a volunteer and soldier in many expeditions against them : comprehending in the whole, a summary of the transactions of the several provinces of Pennsylvania, New-York, New-England, New-Jersey, &c., &c., from the commencement of the war in these parts, particularly those relative to the intended attack on Crown Point and Niagara : and, an accurate and succinct detail of the operations of the French and English forces at the siege of Oswego, where the author was wounded and taken prisoner : and being afterwards sent to England, was on his arrival at Plymouth discharg'd as incapable of further service : also, a curious discourse on kidnapping, with proper directions for tradesmen and others to avoid slavery, when transported from their native country
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Williamson, Peter, 1730-1799
1758
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Some considerations on the present state of affairs : wherein the defenceless situation of Great-Britain is pointed out and an easy rational and just scheme for it's [sic] security, at this dangerous crisis, proposed, in a militia ... as practised by some of His Majesty's colonies abroad : interspersed with an account of the first settlement of the Province of Pennsylvania ... : likewise a short description of the air, soil, produce, &c. of the several colonies on the continent of North-America : the whole concluded with a summary detail of the education, manners, and religion of the Indians, not heretofore mention'd
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1758
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