1742 PHILADELPHIA ELECTION RIOT. Quakers Argue against the Dangers of Executive Branch Overreach. ZZSlaveryandSuffrage Macgregor arrived in Nova Scotia

Macgregor arrived in Nova Scotia in 1786 and was the first Gaelic-speaking Presbyterian minister in the region just then receiving a significant influx of Scottish immigrants

saying - Master

Let not too much power be trusted in the hands of any

we entered what seemed to be a clean place and sat down

1742 PHILADELPHIA ELECTION RIOT. Quakers Argue against the Dangers of Executive Branch Overreach. ZZSlaveryandSuffrage Macgregor arrived in Nova ScotiaAn exceptionally scarce two page printed broadside addressed To the Freeholders of the Province of Pennsylvania, written in the context of the October 1, 1742 Pennsylvania Assembly election known as the Bloody Election, or the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742. Politics in Pennsylvania had long been dominated by the Quakers, but their control was increasingly threatened by the predominantly Anglican Proprietary Party, leading to growing tensions. The