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Indian brutalities...   Inoculating Indians for smallpox...
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Indian brutalities... Inoculating Indians for smallpox...

Item # 694713 ·

THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Oct. 23, 1764  Most of page 7 is taken up with a letter from Philadelphia which begins: "Our Indian war still greatly distresses our frontier counties, great numbers are driven from their habitations...never go to bet without danger of being cut off by the savages before the morning...They murdered a woman with wild, cut the info nt out of her womb and made her and it most horrid spectacles of their curly...massacred a schoolmaster and his scholars in a most barbarous manner..." with much more detail as shown in the photos.
The back page has a letter from Charleston, South Carolina, which reports of a doctor who inoculated local Indians for smallpox. Then: "...hear the North American Colonies endeavoring to rival the mother country in diverse material articles of manufacture will occasion some wholesale regulations shortly to take place...".
Eight pages, 8 1/4 by 11 1/4 inches, nice condition.

Item from our new catalog - #372, released for November, 2026

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$38
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