A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
Originally published in 1903 as Volume XXV of the First Series of the New Jersey Archives, this eBook edition is reformatted for ease of reading, but is complete and unabridged, including footnotes, addenda and corrected errata. The content is a chronological compilation of extracts from American newspapers relating to events in New Jersey from 1766 through 1767. Here are the published reports of runaway servants and slaves, land sales, political issues, the repeal of the Stamp Act, Biographical Appendix, Index and much more. This masterfully crafted eBook is fully searchable and fully printable (517pp, 1.61 Mb).
Pennsylvania's role in the development of American culture and society has received an increasing amount of attention in the past two decades, as the tercentenary celebrations of the founding of the province led to a reexamination of the colony and state's contributions to the ethnic and religious diversity of modern America. With increasing pluralism, however, the religious group that was most prominent in the establishment of the province - the Society of Friends, or Quakers - declined in its impact and importance.