Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink (Continued...)

An Original Copy of James E. Quinlan’s 1851 book, ‘Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink’

An Amazon.com description of the book as well as its table of contents is as follows:

One of the most dramatic tales from early pioneer America, the story of Tom Quick and his one-man war against the American Indians still arouses strong emotions to this day—especially amongst the descendants of his victims, to the point where his monument was attacked and taken down as recently as 1997.

Born in 1734 of Dutch ancestry, Tom Quick lived in peace alongside the Indians for the first part of his life, learning their language, hunting with them, and discovering all of their ways. His path ran up and down the Delaware River, and Indians were frequent guests at the Quick household.

The Indians, however, soon realized that increasing white settlement would ultimately deprive them of their land, and decided to attempt the extermination of all the Europeans along the Delaware. The Quick family were some of the early victims, and Tom witnessed his father being brutally scalped while still alive. It was this incident which determined Tom Quick’s future: at his father’s graveside, he took his knife in his right hand and his rifle in his left, and looking up to Heaven, exclaimed:

“By the point of the knife in my right hand and the deadly bullet in my left; By Heaven and all that there is in it and by earth and all that there is on it; By the love I bore my father; here on this grave I swear eternal vengeance against the whole Indian race. I swear to kill all and spare none; the old man with his silver hair; the lisping babe without teeth; the mother quick with child and the maiden in the bloom of youth shall die. A voice from my father’s grave cries, ‘Revenge! Eternal Revenge!'”He acquired the title of “The Avenger of the Delaware” and the rest of his life was caught up waging war against the Indians.

Soon his exploits became legendary—amongst both Indians and whites. Time and time again, he avenged Indian massacres with equal brutality, and somehow, even though often captured, he always escaped to carry on his private war.

The Scalp King or, The Human Thunderbolt (1883).

By Captain J.F.C. Adams, (1883) - Beadle and Adams Publishers Williams Street - Vol. 98 - Beadle's half-time library.

Tells the story of a frontier Indian Slayer. Other books about famed American Indian fighters are, 'Tom Quick the Indian Slayer " (1851), and 'Speaking Rifle the Indian Slayer' (1865).

Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink - (1851) by James Eldridge Quinlan (An image of chapter 8)

Chapter VIII - Killing a Buck with Seven Skins

Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink Chapter VIII

(Image found on Abe Books' website)

A detailed description of the book is as follows:

"HE IMAGINED THAT THE BLOOD OF THE WHOLE RACE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ATONE FOR THE BLOOD OF HIS FATHER": RARE 1851 FIRST EDITION OF TOM QUICK, THE INDIAN SLAYER

[QUINLAN, James Eldridge]. Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer: and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink. Monticello, New York: De Voe & Quinlan, 1851. Small octavo, original brown cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase.

First edition of this narrative of frontier murder and retribution begun during the French and Indian War, the first book published on the controversial Tom Quick. Very rare.

In 1756, during the French and Indian War, Tom Quick was part of a party ambushed by local Lenape Indians near Milford, Pennsylvania on the upper Delaware River; Tom survived, but his father did not. Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer recounts what had by that point passed into local legend: a vow to avenge his father's death by killing as many Indians as possible, women and children included. It has been claimed that Quick killed anywhere from 20 to 100 Indians before he died around 1796. The author of Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer is careful to withhold praise for Quick's actions: "It will be unnecessary to make an effort to prove that the Indians, if they had historians of their own, could have rendered the conduct of the whites with whom they came into contact quite as worthy of execration as the white historians have made that of the red man; nor is it necessary to attempt to show that the murders committed by Tom were unjustifiable, and that no system of ethics, whether of savage or civilized origin, will afford an excuse for his bloody outrages." Howes Q21. Bookplate.

Foxing and soiling to text, closed tears to two leaves (pp.21-24); minor expert restoration to cloth spine extremities, gilt bright. Very rare: we can find only a few instances of this work being offered in the past 25 years.

Tom Quick (The Indian Slayer) 'Early American' 1936 Book - Additional Illustrations

These pics were taken from Tom Quick, Early American by Frederick W. Crumb, 1936 - Early American Settler vs. Indian Tribes – Frontier Warfare Literature

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Tom Quick the Indian Slayer, the Milford, Pennsylvania 'Avenger of the Delaware' had Dutch ancestors.

Tom Quick the Indian Slayer and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink...(Later Edition) (Original Copy)

Tom Quick, the Indian slayer : and the pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink...
Description:
A later edition, Deposit, N.Y.,1894, published under title: The original life and adventures of Tom Quick ...
Call Number:
Ck29 270
Creator: Quinlan, James Eldridge Waddell, F. L. Tom Quick
Language:
English
Date: 1851
Publisher: De Voe & Quinlan
Curatorial Area: Beinecke Library
Catalog Record:
A record for this resource appears in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog.

Tom Quick (The Indian Slayer) Early American-1936

These pics were taken from Tom Quick, Early American by Frederick W. Crumb, 1936 -Early American vs. Indian Tribes - Frontier Warfare Literature

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Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer - First Edition Book: by James Eldridge Quinlan - 1851

The Description of this incredible book from Bauman Rare Books is as follows:

"HE IMAGINED THAT THE BLOOD OF THE WHOLE (Indian) RACE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ATONE FOR THE BLOOD OF HIS FATHER":

RARE 1851 FIRST EDITION OF TOM QUICK, THE INDIAN SLAYER

[QUINLAN, James Eldridge]. Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer: and the Pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink. Monticello, New York: De Voe & Quinlan, 1851. Small octavo, original brown cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase.

First edition of this narrative of frontier murder and retribution begun during the French and Indian War, the first book published on the controversial Tom Quick. Very rare.