[568] Annotated ed. of 1876 (Albany), by Jas. Grant Wilson.
[569] Memoirs, vols. ix. and x. They cover the years 1700-1711. “Much of the correspondence is taken up with business and politics; but it is also a great storehouse of information respecting men and manners.” Tyler, Amer. Lit., ii. 233.
[570] Cf. E. G. Scott, Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies (New York, 1882), ch. vi.; Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (ii. chapters 18, 29, 30, etc.). Scott says, “Pennsylvania had a greater diversity of nationalities than any other colony, and offered consequently a greater variety of character” (p. 162).
[571] The history of the paper-money movement in Pennsylvania is traced in Henry Phillips, Jr.’s Hist. sketch of the paper money issued by Pennsylvania, with a complete list of the dates, issues, amounts, denominations, and signers (Philad., 1862), and his Hist. sketches of the paper currency of the American colonies (Roxbury, 1865). A list of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey currency, printed by Franklin, is given in the Catal. of works relating to Franklin in the Boston Pub. Library (p. 42).
For New York paper money see J. H. Hickcox’s Hist. of the bills of credit or paper money issued by New York from 1709 to 1780 (Albany, 1866—250 copies).
For the New Jersey currency Phillips will suffice. These monographs must be supplemented by the general histories and comprehensive treatises on financial history.
[572] Cf. An account of the College of New Jersey, with a prospect of the College neatly engraved. Published by order of the Trustees, Woodbridge, N. J., 1764 (Brinley Catal., ii. 3,599); Princeton Book, a history of the College of New Jersey; “Princeton College,” an illustrated paper in the Manhattan Mag., ii. p. 1; S. D. Alexander in Scribner’s Monthly, xiii. 625; H. R. Timlow in Old and New, iv. 507; B. J. Lossing in Potter’s Amer. Monthly, v. 482.
[573] For these last two colleges, see chapter 23 of Perry’s Amer. Episcopal Church, vol. i.
[574] Cf. Job R. Tyson’s Social and intellectual state of Pennsylvania prior to 1743; and Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (ii. ch. 35). An enumeration of American books advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1765, is given in Hist. Mag., iv. 73, 235, 328.
[575] Vol. i. was issued in 1885, bringing the record down to 1763. Trial specimens of the list were earlier issued in the Bulletin of the Philadelphia Library, and separately. The first book printed was by Bradford, in 1685, being Atkins’s America’s Messenger (an almanac). An interesting list of books, printed in Philadelphia and New York previous to 1750, is given in the Brinley Catal., ii. nos. 3,367, etc.