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1 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXVI THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA

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3 CONTENTS ARTICLES Page The Peopling and Depeopling of Early Pennsylvania: Indians and Colonists, Thomas J. Sugrue 3 Kuskusky Towns and Early Western Pennsylvania Indian History, Michael N. McConnell 33 The Erie Triangle: The Final Link Between Philadelphia and the Great Lakes Carl B. Lechner 59 "Order, Discipline, and a few Cannon": Benjamin Franklin, the Association, and the Rhetoric and Practice of Boosterism Sally F. Griffith 131 "Small Matters": Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, and the "Progress of Cities" A. Michal McMahon 157 Politics and Ideology in Poor Richard's Almanack William Pencak 183 Suburban Quasi Government in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia David R. Contosta 259 Overlapping Hinterlands: York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, Jo N. Hays 295 Henry Chapman Mercer and the Search for American History Steven Conn 323 Competing in the Medical Marketplace in Jacksonian America: The Creative Strategy of Dr. George Barrett Kerfoot Thomas R. Winpenny 357 Large Firms and Industrial Restructuring: The Philadelphia Region, Philip Scranton 419 Charles Brockden Brown and Revolutionary Philadelphia: An Imagination in Context Peter Kafer 467 From the Here of Jefferson's Handwritten Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence to the There of the Printed Dunlap Broadside Wilfred J. Ritz 499 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS The Literary Legacy of William Temple Franklin: Controversies over the Publication of Franklin's Autobiography Nian-Sheng Huang 213 ESSAY REVIEW Paul Finkelman 513 BOOK REVIEWS 87, 225, 373, 519 INDEX 537

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5 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS Chairman DAVID W. MAXEY, ESQ. Vice-Chairmen GEORGE W. CONNELL CAROL E. HEVNER JACK FRIEDLAND RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY Secretary NELSON G. HARRIS Treasurer WILLIAM G. WARDEN, III Counsel WILLIAM WEBB CAROL SOFFA BALDRIDGE RICHARD R. BEEMAN MURIEL BERMAN EDWARD D. GRIFFITH WILLIAM L. HIRES BRUCE H. HOOPER MRS. PHILIP (ESTHER) KLEIN JOHN M. MURRIN CARL L. NEILSON Councilors S. ROBERT TEITELMAN MARLIE R. WILLIAMS JOHN W. ECKMAN, Emeritus WM. RICHARD GORDON, Emeritus HOWARD H. LEWIS, Emeritus BERTRAM L. O'NEILL, Emeritus CAROLINE ROBBINS, Emerita HARRISON M. WRIGHT, Emeritus W. THACHER LONGSTRETH, EX officio

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7 STAFF SUSAN STITT, President & CEO TOBY BJORNSON, Executive Secretary to the President ADMINISTRATION DIVISION Development Office SELDEN SMITH, Acting Director of Development JENNIFER PETERS, Membership Coordinator ANNE MARQUARDT, Office Manager Business Office FRED NICHTERLEIN, Controller/Business Manager GREGORY WILLIAMS, Bookkeeper DENISE MITCHELL, Office Administrator Building LEE COVENKO, Facilities Manager ADRIANE SABB, DONALD TEMPLE, EARNEST MEDFORD, Ass't. Building Superintendent Visitor Service Representatives JOEL GOLDSTEIN, Porter MARYJANE MURPHY, Receptionist RACHEL GREEN, ZACHARY STOKES, Housekeepers COLLECTIONS DIVISION LINDA STANLEY, Vice President for Collections MONICA CRYSTAL, Secretary JANICE DOCKERY, Registrar ROBERT HARMAN, Ass't. to Registrar LOUIS MEEHAN, Photographer LEE ARNOLD, Library Director DANIEL ROLPH, Reference Librarian RONALD MEDFORD, Associate Librarian RONG WANG, Cataloger Library ANNE MARIE DUFFY ROSEMARY McKEOWN R. BRUCE ROBERTSON, PACSCL Project Cataloger Manuscripts and Archives Department LOUISE JONES, Acting Curator GLORIA THOMPSON ALMA FRASER LISA BASIL, Mellon Graphics Assistant TOBY GEARHART INTERPRETATION DIVISION CYNTHIA J. LITTLE, Vice President for Interpretation KATE STOVER, Director of Education BLAKE BRADFORD, William Penn Foundation Intern RICHARD ROMINIECKI, Public Relations Officer Publications IAN M.G. QUIMBY, Director of Publications, Editor of PMHB MELISSA J. GREENWALD, Publications Manager CONRAD WOODALL, Indexer Staff as of December 31, 1992

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9 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY THE PEOPLING OF PENNSYLVANIA JANUARY 1992 THE PEOPLING AND DEPEOPLING OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA: INDIANS AND COLONISTS, Thomas J. Sugrue 3 KUSKUSKY TOWNS AND EARLY WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INDIAN HISTORY, Michael N. McConnell 33 THE ERIE TRIANGLE: THE FINAL LINK BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND THE GREAT LAKES Carl B. Lechner 59 BOOK REVIEWS 87 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME CXVI NUMBER 1

10 BOOK REVIEWS FROST, A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania, by Dee Andrews. 87 CLARK, Footloose in Jacksonian America: Robert W. Scott and his Agrarian World, by Douglas R. Egerton. 89 JORDAN, Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions, by Sharon M. Harris. 90 Huss, The Master Builders: A History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, by Frank Gerrity. 92 DIPPIE, Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage, by James P. Ronda. 94 LANE & CRESSWELL, Prints of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Print Shop: Featuring the Wohl Collection, by Roger W. Moss. 96 RISHEL, Founding Families of Pittsburgh: The Evolution of a Regional Elite, , by Frederic Cople Jaher. 97 DEVAULT, Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh, by Sharon Hartman Strom. 99 SMITH, Pittsburgh: Then and Now, by John Modell. 101 ZUNZ, Making America Corporate, , by Stuart M. Blumin. 102 KELLER, Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, , by William R. Childs. 104 GLASSBERG, American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century, by Karal Ann Marling. 106 MARSH, Suburban Lives, by Mary Corbin Sies. 108 FRISCH, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, by Barbara J. Howe. 110 COHEN, America, The Dream of My Life: Selections from the Federal Writers' Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey, by Maureen A. Harp. 111 PFEFFER, A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, by Robert J. Norrell. 113 LAWSON, Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941, by Harvard Sitkoff. 114 McWILLIAMS, The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, , by David T. Courtwright. 116 BERNARD, Snow Belt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest since World War II, by Carl Abbott. 117 HOFFER, The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America, by Herman Belz. 119 MERWICK, Possessing Albany, : The Dutch and English Experiences, by James R. Tanis. 120 YODER, The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig: A Pennsylvania German Emblem Book, by Anita Schorsch. 121 FOX, United We Stand: The United Mine Workers of America , by Irwin M. Marcus. 124 BARTH, Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History, by John Opie. 125

11 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUMEcxvi January 1992 NO. I Publications Committee Chairman RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY THOMAS C. COCHRAN Emeritus DIANE LINDSTROM Historical Society of University of Wisconsin Pennsylvania JOHN J. MC CUSKER RICHARD s. DUNN University of Maryland University of Pennsylvania GARY B. NASH DREW GILPIN FAUST University of California, University of Pennsylvania Los Angeles J. WILLIAM FROST CAROLINE ROBBINS Emetita Swarthmore College Historical Society of Pennsylvania STANLEY N. KATZ MORRIS J. VOGEL Princeton University Temple University EMMA LAPSANSKY STEPHANIE GRAUMAN WOLF Haverford College Philadelphia Center for J. A. LEO LEMAY Early American Studies University of Delaware Editor IAN M. G. QUIMBY Associate Editor CARLA MULFORD Managing Editor MELISSA J. GREENWALD Editorial Assistant JENNIFER A. PETERS

12 Contributors THOMAS J. SUGRUE is a member of the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Columbia, King's College, Cambridge, and Harvard, he is an American social and political historian, specializing in the twentieth century. He spent the academic year as a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. MICHAEL N. MCCONNELL is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary and is the author of the forthcoming book, A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and its Peoples, , CARL B. LECHNER is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Gannon University. He received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University and is the author of the forthcoming book Erie County: Pennsylvania's Link with the Great hakes. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY IS published each quarter in January, April, July, and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA Yearly Subscription: individual, $30; institutional, $35; single numbers, $ $1.50 postage. Back issues of the PMHB are also available in microform from University Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI All communications should be addressed to the Editor. Articles submitted for publication should be sent to the Editor in duplicate and should conform to the University of Chicago Press Manual of Style. Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. The Editor does not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by the contributors. Copyright 1992, by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Second Class Postage paid at Philadelphia, PA and additional mailing offices. (ISSN Postmaster: please send changes of address to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA