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(April 1962). A leading merchant family in Boston is discussed in W. T. Baxter,
The House of Hancock: Business in Boston, 1124-15 (1945).
New Hampshire and Maine have at last found a modern historian in Charles
E. Clark, Eastern Frontier: Settlement of Northern New England, 1610-1163
(1970); and Byron Fairchild, Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua
(1954), deals with one of the leading merchant families of the area.
Apart from the Great Awakening and the Grant study on Democracy in the
Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent (1961), Connecticut remains without a
satisfactory history. Oscar Zeichner's Connecticut's Years of Controversy, 1150-
1116 (1949) deals briefly with the years just after 1750. The best work on the
history of colonial Rhode Island is still Irving B. Richman, Rhode Island: Its
Making and Its Meaning, vol. 2 (1902), which can be supplemented by Edward
Field, ed., The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (3 vols·, 1902).
The only book on the Narragansett Country is Edward Channing, The Narra·
gansett Planters (1886), which needs to be supplemented by the only modern
account, William D. Miller, "The Narragansett Planters," American Antiquarian
Society, Proceedings (1933).
Early eighteenth-century New York politics is admirably discussed in Lawrence
H. Leder, Robert Livingston, 1654—1128, and the Politics of Colonial New
York (1961). Dorothy R. Dillon, New York Triumvirate: William Livingston,
John Morin Scott and William Smith, Jr. (1949), deals with the leaders of the
rising opposition in the latter decades of the half-century. The bibliography of
the Zenger case has been discussed above. Irving Mark's Agrarian Conflicts in
Colonial New York, 1111-1115 (1940) is an indispensable work on the problems
of land monopoly in that colony. Donald L. Kemmerer, Path to Freedom
(1940), provides a good history of eighteenth-century politics in New Jersey.
The best political history of Pennsylvania in this period is Theodore Thayer,
Pennsylvania Politics and the Growth of Democracy, 1140-1116 (1954); see also
Thayer, "The Quaker Party of Pennsylvania, 1755-1765," Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography (1947). Winifred T. Root's Relations of Pennsylvania
with the British Government, 1696-1165 (1912) is still not obsolete.
The literature on Benjamin Franklin is, of course, enormous. The standard
biography is Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin (1938). Franklin's Autobiography,
ed. Labaree et al. (1964), is vital as a clue to his character. On
Franklin's political machinations, see John J. Zimmerman, "Benjamin Franklin
and the Quaker Party, 1755-1756," William and Mary Quarterly (1960), and
Williams S. Hanna, Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics (1964).
There are several excellent biographies of important political figures of the
colony: Roy N. Lokken, David Lloyd, Colonial Lawmaker (1959); Theodore
Thayer, Israel Pemberton: King of the Quakers (1943); and Frederick B. Tolles,
James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America (1957). Carl and Jessica
Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin (1942),
is the standard cultural history of that city. Frederick B. Tolles, Meeting House
and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682—
1763 (1948), is a fine economic and cultural study. War and the Quakers are
discussed in Robert L. D. Davidson, War Comes to Quaker Pennsylvania,
1682-1156 (1957).
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