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DOCUMENT115 BOOK REVIEW William Penn, His Own Account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, 1683, by Albert Cook Myers. Moylan, Pennsylvania, Albert Cook Myers, 1937. 107 pp. ; illustrated. $4.00. ' I 'HIS is a view by an amateur—not a review by a competent historian— of our Friend Albert Cook Myers' most recent monograph concerning William Penn. This time it is the Founder's own account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, written in 1683. I have in my hand No. 34 of the 500 numbered copies, each autographed with the well-known signature of the editor, written apparently without raising the pen. A text of this Account has of course been available since 1683, but not such a carefully collated text as is here presented. This favorable account of the Indians puts Penn in line with the many European travellers and philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who contributed to the literary creation of "the noble savage." The appendix, with its new material and numerous illustrations drawn from the storehouses familiar to Dr. Myers, is fascinating. Our thoughts are carried chronologically from the arrival of the Welcome on October 28 (O. S.), 1682, at Upland, to the new bust of William Penn placed in the Hall of Fame at New York University on May 28, 1936. It is possible to see what was reckoned a fair price for land in what is now the environs of Philadelphia expressed in terms of wampum, guns, coats, shirts, hardware, beads, and tobacco. It is gratifying to see by the visual evidence presented that the greatest of colonial Founders was able to establish his empire upon honesty and affection rather than debauch it with blood and rum. Here are to be seen also several individual treaties and bills of land-sales signed with the artless marks of the sachems, as well as two contemporary portraits of eighteenth-century Delaware chiefs, whose tragic faces seem to foresee the end of their rule in these parts. This little book is replete with first-hand reminders of Penn's fair dealing with the natives of his woods. William W. Comfort. DOCUMENT THE FOLLOWING document is an interesting piece of Revolutionary propaganda published by one of the radical New England faction in the Boston Gazette and Country Journal for July 15, 1771 (no. 849, [p. 3]). It was also reprinted in the Colonial Records of North Carolina, vol. 8, pp. 618-619. It refers to the war of the Regulators in North Carolina in the spring of that year, in which Herman Husbands, an ex-Quaker, 116 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION was one of the principal leaders. The fact that there is no account of the issuing of any such epistle in the New England Yearly Meeting records for that year, the manner of its publication , and the tone of the argument would all point conclusively to its not being a genuine Quaker document. On the other hand, it would seem to have been drawn up by someone who was in contact with Friends and knew their method of conducting such business. The writer's object was not only to attack the policy of the Governor of North Carolina in suppressing the uprising there, but also to indicate his contempt for the attitude of Friends toward the course being followed by the radical colonial element in the controversy with Great Britain. Shortly after the episode mentioned Governor Tryon was promoted to the governorship of the province of New York, where he remained until the separation from England. The document is as follows : To W—m T—? Governor in Chief in, and over, the Province of N—h C—a. The ADDRESS of the People called Q—k—rs at their general, or yearly Meeting for Worship, and transacting the Affairs of our Society, held in R—de Island, for N. England by Adjournment from the 13th to the 17th Day of the Sixth Month 1771 inclusive. Divers of us having heard of thy great Fame, since the K—g appointed Thee to the chief seat of g—t in the province of N. C. how thou hast made justice and equity the rule...