THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
APRIL 1965
LoIs GIVEN BOBB Nicholas B. Wainwright 145
THE FREE SOCIETY OF TRADERS AND THE EARLY POLITICS OF
PENNSYLVANIA Gary B. Nash 147
THE DELAWARE INTERREGNUM Francis P. Jennings 174
HENDRICK B. WRIGHT AND THE "NOCTURNAL COMMITTEE"
E. Neal Claussen 199
THE DIARY OF SIDNEY GEORGE FISHER, 1865 207
BOOK REVIEWS 228 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
VOLUME LXXXIX NUMBER 2 BOOK REVIEWS PAGE WAINWRIGHT, Colonial Grandeur in Philadelphia. The House and Furniture of General John Cadwalader, by David Stockwell 228 LEMAY, Ebenezer Kinnersley: Franklin's Friend, by John J. Zimmerman 231
LABAREE, KETCHAM, BOATFIELD, and FINEMAN, eds., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Frederick B. Tolles 232 PALMER, The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume II, The Struggle, by Caroline Robbins 234 SMITH, Loyalists and Redcoats. A Study in British Revolutionary Policy, by David L. Jacobson 236 LARRABEE, Decision at the Chesapeake, by William Bell Clark 237 HANDLER, America and Europe in the Political Thought of John Adams, by Wendell D. Garrett 238 UPTON, ed., The Diary and Selected Papers of Chief Justice William Smith, 1784- 1793, Vol. I, The Diary, January 24, 1784 to October 5, 1785, by Lawrence H. Leder 240 HAMILTON, Fort Ticonderoga, Key to a Continent, by William A. Hunter 241 FORD, John James Audubon, by James Bond 242 FISCHER, Lincoln's Gadfly, Adam Gurowski, by Joseph George, Jr. 243 BRADLEY, The Triumph of Militant Republicanism. A Study of Pennsylvania and Presidential Politics, 1860-1872, by David Montgomery 245 MCPHERSON, The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Ira V. Brown 247 BROEHL, The Molly Maguires, by Herbert G. Gutman 248 LEWIS, Lament for the Molly Maguires, by Herbert G. Gutman 248 TRAUBEL, ed., With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. V: April 8–September 14, 1889, by Albert Mordell 252 NELSON, ed., Theory and Practice in American Politics, by Roy F. Nichols 255 LINK, Wilson: Confusions and Crises, 1915-1916, by C. Pardee Foulke 256
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. 19107. Yearly subscription, $5.00; single numbers $1.50. Communications should be addressed to the Editor. The Editor does not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
VOLUME LXXXIX April 1965 NO. 2
EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Publications Committee
ROY F. NICHOLS THOMAS C. COCHRAN FREDERICK B. TOLLES R. N. WILLIAMS, 2ND NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT
Editor
NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Contributors
GARY B. NASH, a history instructor at Princeton University, is en- gaged in research on the structure of Pennsylvania society and politics in the period 1681-1720.
FRANCIS P. JENNINGS is a previous contributor to this MAGAZINE, his article, "A Vanishing Indian: Francis Parkman Versus His Sources," having appeared in our July, 1963, issue. An Associate Professor at Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey, Mr. Jennings has also had articles published in the ^American Journal of jQegal History.
E. NEAL CLAUSSEN received his doctorate from Southern Illinois University in 1963. His dissertation was entitled "The Demo- cratic Keynoter: A History/' Assistant Professor of Speech at Bradley University, he has published several articles in the area of American public address in various speech journals.
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