[8] Ranney and Kendall, Democracy and the American Party System, p. 47. The authors argue here that the history of town meetings in America and the Parliamentary system in Great Britain shows hundreds of years without majority tyranny or civil war.
[9] Chapter Six, pp. 78, 84.
[10] Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, III, 770. For example, John Chatham, an English miller, was elected coroner in 1782, a minor role to be sure, but he was supported.
[11] Smith, Laws, II, 196-197. In Sweeney vs. Toner, an Englishman, Toner's property right was upheld because his absence was for military service, despite the fact that Sweeney, a Scotch-Irishman, was a majority representative.
[12] Linn, "Indian Land and Its Fair Play Settlers," p. 424. The case cited here, Huff vs. Satcha, saw the use of militia to drive off a landholder whose title had been denied by the Fair Play men.
[13] Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, III, 217-218, 417-418, and 518-522. On page 417, fifty-three officers and soldiers are described as "early in the service from the unpurchased land." Thirty-nine petitioners (p. 520) sought pre-emption, a claim repeated over two years later by some fifty-three settlers. The petition to the Supreme Council (p. 217) for protection from the Indians in 1778 prior to the Great Runaway bore forty-seven names.
[14] See Chapter Two for a demographic analysis of the Fair Play settlers.
[15] Clark, "Pioneer Life in the New Purchase," p. 28.
[16] "Eleanor Coldren's Deposition," p. 222.
[17] Ibid.