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We apprehend that as freemen and English subjects, we have an indisputable
title to the same privileges and immunities with His Majesty's other subjects
who reside in the interior counties, and therefore ought not to be excluded
from an equal share with them in the very important privilege of legislation...
We cannot but observe with sorrow and indignation that some persons in this
province are at pains to extenuate the barbarous cruelties practised by these sav-
ages on our murdered brethren and relatives... by this means the Indians have
been taught to despise us as a weak and disunited people, and from this fatal
source have arisen many of our calamities....We humbly pray therefore that
this grievance may be redressed."
-The Paxton Boys, to the Pennsylvania Assembly, "A Remonstrance of
Distressed and Bleeding Frontier Inhabitants, 1764

1. The protests by the Paxton Boys occurred during a period when many
colonists were objecting to British policies that were a result of the
(A) Albany Plan of Union
(B) Great Awakening
(C) Seven Years' War
(D) Enlightenment