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PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY (ISSN 0031-4528) Quarterly Journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association Editor Francis J. Bremer, Millersville University Associate Editor Ronald M. Benson, Millersville University Book Review Editor Charles D. Cashdollar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania News Editor Donna Munger, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Editorial Assistants joy Allen and Brian Ressler Editorial Board Jo Ann E. Argersinger, Dickinson College James Axtell, College of William and Mary John Bauman, California University of Pennsylvania Michael Bezilla, Pennsylvania State University John Bodnar, Indiana University Allen F. Davis, Temple University Mary Maples Dunn, Bryn Mawr College Henry Glassie, University of Pennsylvania Maurine Greenwald, University of Pittsburgh P. M. G. Harris, Temple University James Kehl, University of Pittsburgh Nancy Sahli, National Historical Publications and Records Commission Joel A. Tarr, Carnegie-Mellon University Anthony F. C. Wallace, University of Pennsylvania Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania i
MANUSCRIPTS AND REVIEWS The editor invites the submission of articles dealing with the social, intellectual, economic, political and cultural history of Pennsylvania and the Middle Atlantic region. Articles may reflect investigation of new areas of research or may reflect on past scholarship. Material that is primarily of an antiquarian or genealogical nature will not be considered. Pennsylvania History publishes documents previously unpublished and of interest to students of the Middle Atlantic region. The journal also reviews books dealing primarily with Pennsylvania history or which shed significant light on aspects of the state's past. Manuscripts must be submitted in two copies and should conform with the University of Chicago Manual of Style. Footnotes should be double-spaced and placed at the end of the manuscript. Articles and documents should be sent to the editor: Francis J. Bremer, Department of History, Millersville University Millersville, Pennsylvania 17551. News of meetings, projects, exhibits, manuscript collections and related matters should be sent to Donna Munger, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120. Send books for review and names of individuals who wish to review for the journal to Charles D. Cashdollar, Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705. ii
PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY VOLUME 50 OCTOBER 1983 NUMBER 4 ARTICLES "WATCHFUL AGAINST THE SECTS": RELIGIOUS RENEWAL IN PENNSYL- VANIA'S GERMAN CONGREGATIONS, 1720-1750... Patricia U. Bonomi 273 WILLIAM PENN AND TOLERATION: FOUNDATIONS OF COLONIAL PENN- SYLVANIA... Sally Schwartz 284 DOCUMENTS "AS GOOD A COUNTRY AS ANY MAN NEEDS TO DWELL IN": LETTERS FROM A SCOTCH-IRISH IMMIGRANT IN PENNYLSVANIA, 1766, 1767 AND 1784... Alun C. Davies 313 NEWS AND COMMENTS 323 BOOK REVIEWS AXTELL, The European and the Indian... 326 DUNN AND DUNN, EDS., The Papers of William Penn. Volume 2: 1680-1684 327 FLOWER, John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary... 328 DINKIN, Voting in Revolutionary America... 330 HOFFMAN AND ALBERT, EDS., Sovereign States in as Age of Uncertainty... 331 REYNOLDS, George Lippard... 332 ARBOR, Tools & Trades ofamerica's Past: The Mercer Colle ction... 333 POOL, America's Valley Forges and Valley Furnaces... 334 MOHR, ED., The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. 335 BODNAR, Workers' World: Kinship, Community and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940... 336 INDEX TO VOLUME 50 339 The Pennsylvania Historical Association is the only statewide historical society now active in the Commonwealth. By its annual meetings held successively in different parts of the state, its publications and its cosponsorship of an annual research conference the association endeavors to stimulate scholarly activity and arouse popular interest in the state's history. Membership in the Association is ten dollars per year. For information contact Neil McNall, 806 New Liberal Arts Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802. Pennsylvania History is published in January, April, July and October. The articles are listed in the American Historical Review and The Journal of American History and are abstracted in America: History and Life. Articles in religious history are abstracted in Theological and Religious Index. The journal is printed by Science Press in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Cover design by J. Stephen Davis iii