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Weems, Mason Locke. The Life of William Penn, the Settler of Pennsylvania, the Founder of Philadelphia, and One of the First Lawgivers in the Colonies, now United States, in 1682. ... Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt, 1829. 208 p.
Notes
Chap. 20, devoted to "William Penn’s Narrative of the Aborigines, or native Indians, whom he found in Pennsylvania, touching their persons, language, manners, religion, and government," includes Penn’s affirmation of the Jewish origin of the Native Americans ("... they are of the Jewish race, I mean of the stock of the ten tribes so long lost," p. 174). Reissued in 1836. Shoemaker 41471.