Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Political Aspects

Adams, John. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams. Edited by Lyman H. Butterfield, et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961 --.

-----. Adams Family Correspondence. Edited by Lyman H. Butterfield, et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963 --.

Adams, Samuel. The Writings of Samuel Adams. Edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing. 4 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907.

Alexander, Edward P. A Revolutionary Conservative: James Duane of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1938.

-----. "James Duane, Moderate Rebel." New York History, 17 (April 1936), pp. 123-134.

Anderson, William G. The Price of Liberty: The Public Debt of the American Revolution. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.

Arnold, Douglas M. A Republican Revolution: Ideology and Politics in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790. New York: Garland, 1989.

Austin, James T. The Life of Elbridge Gerry with Contemporary Letters to the Close of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1828.

Bailyn, Bernard, and John B. Hench, editors. The Press and the American Revolution. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1980.

Bakeless, John, and Katherine Bakeless. Signers of the Declaration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969.

Barry, Richard H. Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942.

Bartlett, Josiah. The Papers of Josiah Bartlett. Edited by Frank C. Mevers. Hanover: University Press of New England for the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979.

[-----, et al.]. "Stray Leaves from an Autograph Collection: Correspondence of Josiah Bartlett, of N.H., During the American Revolution." Historical Magazine, 6 (March, August, September 1862), pp. 73-78, 239-242, 277-279.

Bastian, Peter. "The Continental Congress and the American Revolution: The Development of a Revolutionary Organization 1774-1777." In Norman Harper and Elaine Barry, editors, American Studies Down Under (Manila: Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 1977), pp. 1-20.

Bezanson, Anne. "Inflation and Controls, Pennsylvania, 1774-1779." Journal of Economic History, Supplement 8 (1948), pp. 1-20.

Biddle, Charles. Autobiography of Charles Biddle, Vice President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1745-1812. Edited by James S. Biddle. Philadelphia: E. Claxton and Co., 1883.

Bogin, Ruth. Abraham Clark and the Quest for Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774-1794. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982.

-----. "Abraham Clark and the Idea of Equality in Revolutionary New Jersey." Ph.D. Dissertation, Union Graduate School, 1978.

Boutell, Lewis Henry. The Life of Roger Sherman. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1896.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker. John Adams and the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.

Bowling, Kenneth R. "Good-By 'Charlie': The Lee-Adams Interest and The Political Demise of Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, 1774-1789." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 100 (July 1976), pp. 314-335.

Bradsher, James Gregory. "Preserving the Revolution: Civil-Military Relations during the American War for Independence 1775-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1984.

Brant, Irving. James Madison. 6 vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941-1961.

Brennan, Ellen E. Plural Office-Holding in Massachusetts 1760-1780. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1945.

Brown, William Garrott. "The Early Life of Oliver Ellsworth." American Historical Review, 10 (April 1905), pp. 534-564.

-----. "A Continental Congressman: Oliver Ellsworth, 1777-1783." American Historical Review, 10 (July 1905), pp. 751-781.

Brush, Edward Hale. Rufus King and His Times. New York: N. L. Brown, 1926.

Buel, Richard, Jr. Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972.

Burnett, Edmund C. The Continental Congress. New York: Macmillan, 1941.

Butterfield, Lyman H. "The Reputation of Benjamin Rush." Pennsylvania History, 17 (January 1950), pp. 3-22.

Carp, E. Wayne. "The Origins of the Nationalist Movement of 1780-1783: Congressional Administration and the Continental Army." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 107 (July 1983), pp. 263-282.

Carroll, John. The John Carroll Papers. Edited by Thomas O'Brien Hanley. 3 vols. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976.

Chernow, Barbara. "Robert Morris: Land Speculator, 1790-1801." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1974.

Chitwood, Oliver Perry. Richard Henry Lee, Statesman of the Revolution. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1967.

Coleman, Francis X. J. "John Jay on War." Journal of the History of Ideas, 43 (January-March 1982), pp. 145-151.

Coleman, John M. Thomas McKean: Forgotten Leader of the Revolution. Rockaway, N.J.: American Faculty Press, 1975.

Cometti, Elizabeth. "The Civil Servants of the Revolutionary Period." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 75 (April 1951), pp. 159-169.

Conrad, Henry C., et al. Addresses Delivered at the Formal Presentation of the Portraits of the governors of Delaware to the State, Thursday, May 26th, 1898. N.P.: N.p., 1898.

Cress, Lawrence Delbert. "Republican Liberty and National Security: American Military Policy as an Ideological Problem, 1783 to 1789." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 38 (January 1980), pp. 73-96.

Dabney, William M. "Drayton and Laurens in the Continental Congress." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 60 (April 1959), pp. 74-82.

Dangerfield, George. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World Co., 1960.

Daniell, Jere R. Experiment in Republicanism, New Hampshire Politics and the American Revolution, 1741-1794. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Davis, Joseph L. "Sections, Factions, and Political Centralism in the Confederation Period: 1774-1787." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1972.

Dill, Alonzo Thomas. Carter Braxton, Virginia Signer: A Conservative in Revolt. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983.

Ellery, William. "Diary of the Hon. William Ellery of Rhode Island." Edited by Henrietta C. Ellery. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 11 (1887), pp. 318-329, 476-481.

Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, compiler. Letters by Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, and Others Written before and during the Revolution. Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1889.

Ernst, Robert. Rufus King: American Federalist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Farrell, James A. "Thomas FitzSimons." American Catholic Historical Society Records, 39 (September 1928), pp. 175-224.

Fell, John. Delegate from New Jersey: The Journal of John Fell. Edited by Donald W. Whissenhunt. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1973.

Ferguson, E. James. "The Nationalists of 1781-1783 and the Economic Interpretation of the Constitution." Journal of American History, 56 (September 1969), pp. 241-261.

Ferris, Robert G., editor. Signers of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of Independence. Washington: National Park Service, 1973.

Finkelstein, Robert Z. "Merchant, Revolutionary, and Statesman: A Reappraisal of the Life and Public Services of John Hancock, 1737-1793." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1981.

Flanders, Henry. "Thomas Fitzsimmons." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2 (1878), pp. 306-314.

Flower, Milton E. John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983.

Foner, Eric. Tom Paine and Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Fowler, James Henry, II. "The Breakdown of Congressional Authority: A Study of the Relations Between The Continental Congress and the States, 1780-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1977.

Fowler, William M. The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1980.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Writings of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Albert H. Smyth. 10 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1905-1907.

Gadsden, Christopher. The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805. Edited by Richard Walsh. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1966.

Gardner, C. Harvey, editor. A Study in Dissent: The Warren-Gerry Correspondence 1776-1792. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968.

Gavre, William M. "Republicanism in the American Revolution: The Collapse of the Classical Ideal." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978.

Gerlach, Larry R. Connecticut Congressman: Samuel Huntington, 1731-1796. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1976.

Godbold, E. Stanley, Jr., and Robert H. Woody. Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Griffin, Martin I. J. Thomas FitzSimons, Pennsylvania's Catholic Signer of the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society, 1887.

Halfield, Edwin F. "Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2 (1878), pp. 438-442.

Hamer, Philip M. "Henry Laurens of South Carolina--The Man and His Papers." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 77 (1965), pp. 3-14.

Hamilton, Neil A. "Connecticut Order, Mercantilistic Economics: The Life of Oliver Wolcott, Jr." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1988.

Hancock, John. "Letters of John Hancock, 1776." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 60 (January 1927), pp. 98-116.

Handlin, Oscar, and Mary F. Handlin. "Revolutionary Economic Policy in Massachusetts." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 4 (January 1947), pp. 3-26.

Hanley, Thomas O'Brien. Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Making of a Revolutionary Gentleman. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1970.

Harlow, Ralph Volney. "Aspects of Revolutionary Finance, 1775-1783." American Historical Review, 35 (October 1929), pp. 46-68.

Haskett, Richard C. "Prosecuting the Revolution." American Historical Review, 59 (April 1954), pp. 578-587.

Hastings, George E. The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926.

Hawke, David Freeman. Honorable Treason: The Declaration of Independence and the Men Who Signed It. New York: Viking Press, 1976.

-----. A Transaction of Free Men: the Birth & Course of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Scribner's, 1964.

Henderson, H. James. Party Politics in the Continental Congress. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974.

-----. "Political Factions in the Continental Congress: 1774-1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1962.

Hildeburn, Charles R. "Francis Hopkinson." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2 (1878), pp. 314-324.

Holten, Samuel. "Journals of Samuel Holten, M.D. when in the Continental Congress, May, 1778, to August, 1780." Essex Institute Historical Collections, 55 (1919), pp. 161-176, 249-256; 56 (1920), pp. 24-32, 88-97.

Horne, Paul A., Jr. "Forgotten Leaders: South Carolina's Delegation to the Continental Congress, 1774-1789." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1988.

Hosack, David. A Biographical Memoir of Hugh Williamson. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1820.

Hunt, Agnes. Provincial Committees of Safety of the American Revolution. Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1904.

Huntington, Susan D. "Samuel Huntington." Connecticut Magazine, 6 (May-June 1900), pp. 247-253.

Hutson, James H. "The Partition Treaty and the Declaration of American Independence." Journal of American History, 58 (March 1972), pp. 877-896.

Ireland, Oliver. "Partisanship and the Constitution: Pennsylvania 1787." Pennsylvania History, 45 (October 1978), pp. 315-332.

Izard, Ralph. Correspondence of Mr. Ralph Izard of South Carolina, from the Year 1774 to 1804; with a Short Memoir. Edited by Anne Izard Deas. New York: Charles S. Francis & Co., 1844.

Jacobson, David L. John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

Jay, John. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay First Chief-Justice of the United States, Member and President of the Continental Congress, Minister to Spain, Member of the Commission to Negociate Treaty of Independence, Envoy to Great Britain, Governor of New York, etc. Edited by Henry P. Johnston. 4 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890-1905.

-----. John Jay: Unpublished Papers. Edited by Richard B. Morris, et al. New York: Harper and Row, 1975 --.

Jay, William. The Life of John Jay: with Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. 2 vols. New York: J. and J. Harper, 1833.

Jenkins, Charles F. Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926.

Jensen, Merrill. Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926.

-----. The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1948.

Jones, Joseph. Letters of Joseph Jones of Virginia. Edited by Worthington C. Ford. Washington: Department of State, 1889.

Jones, Robert F. "William Duer and the Business of Government in the Era of the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 32 (July 1975), pp. 393-416.

Kashatus, William C., III. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution. Lanham: University Press of America, 1990.

Kenyon, Cecilia M. "Republicanism and Radicalism in the American Revolution: An Old Fashioned Interpretation." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 19 (April 1962), pp. 153-182.

Ketcham, Ralph L. "France and American Politics, 1763-1793." Political Science Quarterly, 78 (June 1963), pp. 198-223.

King, Rufus. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private and Official, His Public Documents and His Speeches. Edited by Charles King. 6 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1900.

Kline, Mary-Jo. "Gouveneur Morris and the New Nation." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1970.

Learned, Henry Barrett. "Origin of the Title of Superintendent of Finance." American Historical Review, 10 (April 1905), pp. 565-573.

Lee, Richard H. Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee and his correspondence with the most distinguished men in America and Europe, illustrative of their characters, and of the events of the American revolution. 2 vols. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1825.

-----. Letters of Richard Henry Lee. Edited by James C. Ballagh. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1911-1914.

Leonard, Lewis A. Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1918.

Lettieri, Ronald, and Charles Wetherell. "The New Hampshire Committees of Safety and Revolutionary Republicanism, 1775-1784." Historical New Hampshire, 55 (Fall 1980), pp. 241-283.

Little, Arthur. "William Whipple, The 'Signer.'" Magazine of History, 9 (May 1909), pp. 257-268.

Livingston, William. The Papers of William Livingston. Edited by Carl E. Prince, et al. 5 vols. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1979-1988.

Lowry, Ralph James. "The Conflict in the Thirteen States over the Peace Treaty of 1783." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico, 1972.

McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic 1776-1790. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1965.

McDonough, Daniel Joseph. "Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The Parallel Lives of Two American Patriots." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 1990.

McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham. The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties: Studies in Constitutional History and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1912.

MacMillan, Margaret Burnham. The War Governors in the American Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943.

Maier, Pauline. "Coming to Terms with Samuel Adams." American Historical Review, 81 (February 1976), pp. 12-37.

Main, Jackson T. Political Parties before the Constitution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973.

-----. The Upper House in Revolutionary America, 1763-1788. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Marston, Jerrilyn Greene. "King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy from the King to the Continental Congress, 1774-1776." Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, 1975.

Martin, James Kirby. Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the Coming of the American Revolution. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1973.

Masterson, William Henry. William Blount. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1954.

Matthews, John Carter. "Richard Henry Lee and the American Revolution." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1939.

Mayer, Henry. A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic. New York: Watts, 1986.

Mayo, Lawrence S. John Langdon of New Hampshire. Concord: Rumford Press, 1937.

Meleney, John C. The Public Life of Aedanus Burke: Revolutionary Republican in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

-----. "The Public Life of Aedanus Burke, Revolutionary Republican in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 1988.

Miller, John C. Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936.

Mintz, Max M. Gouveneur Morris and the American Revolution. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Mitchell, S. Weir, editor. "Historical Notes of Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1777." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 27 (1903), pp. 129-150.

Monaghan, Frank, editor. "Unpublished Correspondence of William Livingston and John Jay." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 52 (July 1934), pp. 141-162.

Montross, Lynn. The Reluctant Rebels: the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. New York: Harper, 1950.

Moore, George Henry. John Dickinson, The Author of the Declaration, On Taking Up Arms in 1775. New York: Privately printed, 1890.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Conservative American Revolution. Washington: Society of the Cincinnati, 1976.

-----. "The Struggle Over the Adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 50 (May 1917), pp. 353-411.

Morris, Gouveneur. The Diary and Letters of Gouveneur Morris. Edited by Anne Cary Morris. 2 vols. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1888.

-----. The Life of Gouveneur Morris, with Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States. Edited by Jared Sparks. Boston: Gray & Bowen, 1832.

Morris, Richard B. "John Jay and the New England Connection." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 80 (1968), pp. 16-37.

Morris, Robert. The Confidential Correspondence of Robert Morris. Edited by Stan V. Henkels. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1917.

----. The Papers of Robert Morris 1781-1784. Edited by E. James Ferguson et al. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973--.

----. "Letters to Robert Morris, 1775-1782." New-York Historical Society Collections for 1878, pp. 397-488.

Nelson, William H. "The Revolutionary Character of the American Revolution." American Historical Review, 70 (July 1965), pp. 998-1014.

Nevins, Allen. The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789. New York: Macmillan Co., 1924.

Norton, William B. "Paper Currency in Massachusetts During the Revolution." New England Quarterly, 7 (March 1934), pp. 43-69.

Pavlovsky, Arnold M. "'Between Hawk and Buzzard':Congress as Perceived by Its Members, 1775-1783." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1010 (July 1977), pp. 349-364.

Phyfe, R. Eston. "Roger Sherman--A Connecticut Man--A Maker of the Nation." Connecticut Magazine, 7 (1902), pp. 234-248.

Potts, Louis W. Arthur Lee: A Virtuous Revolutionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.

Putnam, George W. "Patriots Who Were Not Soldiers." Magazine of History, 18 (February-March 1914), pp. 73-87.

Rakove, Jack N. The Beginning of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Read, William T. Life and Correspondence of George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1870.

Richards, Robert Haven. The Life and Character of John Dickinson. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1901.

Robbins, Caroline. "Decision in '76: Reflections on the 56 Signers." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 89 (1977), pp. 72-87.

Roche, John F. Joseph Reed: A Moderate in the American Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957.

Rolater, Fred S. "Charles Thomson, 'Prime Minister' of the United States." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 101 (July 1977), pp. 322-348.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Gouveneur Morris. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888.

Ryan, Frank W., Jr. "The Role of South Carolina in the First Continental Congress." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 60 (July 1959), pp. 147-153.

Sanders, Jennings B. The Presidency of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789; a Study in American Institutional History. [Decatur, Ga.]: Lindsey Printing Co., 1930.

-----. Evolution of Executive Departments of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.

Schlenther, Boyd Stanley. Charles Thomson: A Patriot's Pursuit. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990.

Scott, Kenneth. "Price Control in New England During the Revolution." New England Quarterly, 19 (December 1946), pp. 453-473.

Siekminski, Greg. "The Puritan Captivity Narrative and the Politics of the American Revolution." American Quarterly, 42 (March 1990), pp. 35-56.

Simms, W. Gilmore, editor. "Revolutionary Letters." Historical Magazine, 1 (October 1857), pp. 289-292; 2 (January 1858), pp. 6-11.

Skaggs, David Curtis. Roots of Maryland Democracy, 1753-1776. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1973.

Slaughter, Thomas P. An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons. Garden City: Doubleday, 1986.

Smith, Charles Page. James Wilson: Founding Father, 1742-1798. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956.

Smith, Ellen Hart. Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1945.

Smith, Paul H., et al., editors. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Washington: Library of Congress, 1976 --.

Snapp, J. Russell. "William Henry Drayton: The Making of a Conservative Revolutionary." Journal of Southern History, 57 (November 1991), pp. 637-658.

Staples, William R. Rhode Island in the Continental Congress. Edited by Reuben Aldridge Guild. Providence: Providence Press Co., 1870.

Starke, Bruce P. Connecticut Signer: William Williams. Chester, Ct.: Pequot Press, 1975.

-----. "William Williams: Portrait of a Connecticut Patriot." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 40 (July 1975), pp. 80-87.

Stearns, Ezra S. "Meshech Weare." Magazine of History, 6 (July 1907), pp. 41-54.

Stillé, Charles J. The Life and Times of John Dickinson, 1732-1808. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1891.

Swiggett, Howard. The Extraordinary Mr. Morris. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1952.

Taylor, Robert J. "Trial at Trenton." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 26 (October 1969), pp. 521-547.

-----. "John Adams: Legalist as Revolutionist." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 89 (1977), pp. 55-71.

Thompson, Mack F. "The Ward-Hopkins Controversy and the American Revolution in Rhode Island: An Interpretation." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., 16 (July 1959), pp. 363-375.

Thomson, Charles. "The Papers of Charles Thomson, Secretary to the Continental Congress." New-York Historical Society Collections for 1878, pp. 1-286.

Thornton, J. Wingate. "Memoir of Hon. Oliver Wolcott, Sen., Governor of Connecticut, 1796-7." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 26 (January 1872), pp. 16-19.

Van Dusen, Albert E. "Samuel Huntington: A Leader of Revolutionary Connecticut." Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, 19 (April 1954), pp. 38-62.

Ver Steeg, Clarence L. Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier, with an Analysis of His Earlier Career. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954.

Wallace, David D. The Life of Henry Laurens, with a Sketch of the Life of Lieutenant-Colonel John Laurens. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.

Walther, Daniel. Gouveneur Morris, Witness of Two Revolutions. Translated by Elinore Denniston. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1934.

Ward, Samuel. Correspondence of Governor Samuel Ward, May 1775-March 1776, with a Biographical Introduction Based Chiefly on the Ward Papers Covering the Period 1725-1776, and Genealogy of the Ward Family, Thomas Ward, Son of John, of Newport and Some of His Descendants. Edited by Bernhard Knollenberg and compiled by Clifford P. Monahan. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society.

-----. "Diary of Governor Samuel Ward, Delegate from Rhode Island in Continental Congress, 1774-1776." Magazine of American History, 1 (1877), pp. 438-442, 503-506, 549-561.

Watterson, John Sayle. Thomas Burke: Restless Revolutionary. Washington: University Press of America, 1980.

Willingham, William F. Connecticut Revolutionary: Eliphalet Dyer. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1976.

Wolf, Edwin. John Dickinson, Forgotten Patriot. Wilmington: N.p., 1967[?].

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

Wright, Marcus Joseph. Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount, ... . Washington: E. J. Gray, 1884.

Young, Elanor. Forgotten Patriot: Robert Morris. New York: Macmillan Co., 1950.

Manuscripts of Political Figures

ADAMS, SAMUEL.

Papers. New York Public Library (New York City).

BARTLETT, JOSIAH.

Papers. Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire).

Papers. New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord).

BOUDINOT, ELIAS.

Papers. Princeton University Library (Princeton).

CHASE, SAMUEL.

Papers. New York Public Library (New York City).

DUANE, JAMES.

Papers. New-York Historical Society (New York City).

DUER, WILLIAM.

Papers. New-York Historical Society (New York City).

GERRY, ELBRIDGE.

Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston).

JAY, JOHN.

Papers. Columbia University Library (New York City).

LANGDON, JOHN.

Papers. New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord).

LAURENS, HENRY.

Letterbooks. South Carolina Historical Society

(Charleston).

LIVERMORE, SAMUEL.

Papers. New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord).

LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R., JR.

Papers. New-York Historical Society (New York City).

LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM.

Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston).

Papers. New-York Historical Society (New York City).

MORRIS, GOUVENEUR.

Papers. Columbia University Library (New York City).

Papers. New-York Historical Society (New York City).

MORRIS, ROBERT.

Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia).

Papers. New York Public Library (New York City).

Papers. Henry E. Huntington Library (San Marino,

Calif.).

PAINE, ROBERT TREAT.

Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston).

PALMER, JOSEPH.

Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston).

TRUMBULL, JONATHAN, SR.

Papers. Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford).

WEARE, MESHECH.

Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston).

Papers. New Hampshire Historical Society (Concord).

WHEELOCK, ELEAZER.

Papers. Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire).

WOLCOTT, OLIVER, SR.

Papers. Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford).

Symposia Papers

Main, Jackson Turner. "The American Revolution in the States." Paper presented 28 March 1979 at the Capitol Historical Society Symposium "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty," Washington, D.C.

Nadelhaft, Jerome. "The Snarls of Invidious Animals: The Decline of Aristocracy in Revolutionary South Carolina." Paper presented 28 March 1979 at the Capitol Historical Society Symposium "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty," Washington, D.C.

Papenfuse, Edward. "Order Out of Chaos: Efforts to Control the Economy and Attain Political Tranquility in Maryland, 1777-1789." Paper presented 29 March 1979 at the Capitol Historical Society Symposium "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty," Washington, D.C.

Patterson, Stephen E. "The Roots of New England Federalism: Massachusetts in the War of Independence." Paper presented 28 March 1979 at the Capitol Historical Society Symposium "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty," Washington, D.C.

Ryerson, Richard A. "Republican Theory and Partisan Reality in Revolutionary Pennsylvania." Paper presented 29 March 1979 at the Capitol Historical Society Symposium "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty," Washington, D.C.

CMH Homepage