Footnotes and Further Reading

Benjamin Franklin

1706-1790
Footnote # 1

Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Penguin Group, 2004), 196-200; 214.

Footnote # 2

E. James Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance 1776-1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), 180; Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine, March 27, 1785, quoted in Ibid., 214.

Footnote # 3

Benjamin Franklin to James Bowdoin, March 6, 1787, reprinted in the Hampshire Gazette, March 28, 1787.

Footnote # 4

Ibid.

Footnote # 5

Ibid.

Footnote # 6

Proclamation by the President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 10, 1787. The text of the proclamation was printed in Pennsylvania newspapers and appeared in the Hampshire Gazette on April 11, 1787.

Footnote # 7

Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, 216-17.

Footnote # 8

Walter Isaccson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003


Further Reading

Ferguson, James E. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.

Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.