Excerpt from Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: Series in History; No; 1, the Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania; 1760-1776
This study is the result of work done while the author was senior fellow in American history at the University of Pennsylvania. The opinions formed at that time have been changed in some instances by the use of material found in the Library of Congress, and it is hoped that the conclusions reached may be of interest to students of the American revolution.
No attempt has been made to write a history of Pennsylvania. Only such facts and tendencies in her provincial life have been pictured as serve to make clear the foundation and growth of the revolutionary movement within that State. Much less has there been any desire to enter the broader field of the conflict between Great Britain and her colonies in America. The movement within the State and the movement within the nation were closely connected, but an effort has been made to introduce no phase of the broader struggle except such as excited particular interest in Pennsylvania. For this reason the press and pamphlet utterances of revolutionary leaders have been cited only when they found expression in Pennsylvania newspapers or were freely circulated within that colony.
Pennsylvania was a miniature picture of the British Empire. The same differences of race, religion and economic interest which divided the empire into two nations, were prominent in the Quaker colony. This study is an effort to set forth the extent of those differences, to trace the development of a revolutionary party within the colony, and to picture the circumstances attendant upon the final conflict between the radical and conservative forces in 1776. In this way only can the attitude of Pennsylvania during the international struggle be understood.
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