Craig W. Horle

The Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators is proud to announce publication of Volume 3 of its multi-volume series, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania. Volume 3, distributed by the Penn State University Press, covers the Assembly terms from 1757 through 1775, a period that witnessed the French and Indian War, the expansion of Pennsylvania, with the addition of Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland counties, the Stamp Act crisis, the development of extra-legal committees, the creation of county militias, and the eventual overthrow of the colonial government. Among the legislators profiled in Volume 3 are Benjamin Franklin, William Allen, Joseph Galloway, Daniel Roberdeau, George Bryan, John Armstrong, William Thompson, Henry Keppele, Isaac Norris, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, George Taylor, George Ross, Emanuel Carpenter, John Morton, Nathaniel Pennock, Israel Jacobs, Robert McPherson, Edward Biddle, John Potts, Samuel Potts, Thomas Potts, Samuel Miles, Michael Hillegas, and Thomas Willing. Also included are a series of introductory essays focusing on such topics as the rules and procedures of the Assembly, the Pennsylvania Iron Industry, the legislators and civic improvement, the Quaker party, and the prelude to revolution. The volume also contains 16 charts, two maps, a complete sessions list for those years, and numerous appendices that highlight such topics as the religious affiliations and residences of the legislators, laws enacted in Pennsylvania, and committee assignments by speaker.

A Biographical Dictionary

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania

Jeffrey L. Scheib

David Haugaard

Joseph S. Foster

Carolyn M. Peters

Laurie M. Wolfe

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 2, 1710-1756

Marianne S. Wokeck

Joy Wiltenburg

Rosalind J. Beiler

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709

Records of the Courts of Sussex County, Delaware, 1677-1710: 1677-1689

Richard S. Dunn

Mary Maples Dunn

Alison Duncan Hirsch

This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania—a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on 30 July 1718, after a lingering illness.

1701-1718

The Papers of William Penn, Volume 4

1677-1689

Records of the Courts of Sussex County, Delaware, Volume 1

1677-1710

Records of the Courts of Sussex County, Delaware, Volume 2

Craig W. Horle

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