ABSTRACT
Throughout the colonial period, Pennsylvania Quakers from William Penn onwards, aimed to live in friendship with the local Indians and only to acquire land from them by consent. Penn and others took a respectful interest in the beliefs and patterns of life exhibited by Native Americans, though they also hoped and believed Quaker spiritual testimony would bring them to the Christian God. By the mid-eighteenth century, however, many frontier settlers in Pennsylvania regarded the Friends as too yielding towards the tribes in an era of warfare.
