Dixon and Barb

[Judy Panetta]

>
> Why would Dixon pack a piece if he is a pacifist Quaker?
> Why would he go out in the night with a gun in
> his hand looking for
> whomever or whatever is threatening the camp?
>

If I may hazard an insight...I did come across evidence
which indicated that friends left home packing. And even
weighty Quakers were said to have threatened another human
with a firearm. These were different times. How different we
can only speculate. It appears that you are indulging in
comparisons that perhaps the author avoided. Or perhaps we
happened upon the same letters in the archives on Cherry
Street.