Bruce Cable

“COOPER, THOMAS. Some Information Respecting America. With Letters written from America to a friend in England (1793- 1794). Second Edition, London: 1795.”
― Anonymous

“RUSH, BENJAMIN. An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania (Written, 1789). Notes by I. D. Rupp. Philadelphia: 1875.”
― Anonymous

“German Pietests of Provincial Pennsylvania (1694-1708). Philadelphia, privately published: 1895. The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania (1708-1742). A Critical and Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers. Philadelphia: 1899.”
― Anonymous

“In December 1776, some 600 Northampton militiamen marched to help defend Philadelphia from the British Army. But when these sometime soldiers experienced the hardship and danger of military life, they threatened to revolt unless the government took action against those who "remained at home with their families enjoying in peace ... all the benefits arising from the virtuous efforts of those who have ventured their lives in the defense of liberty and their country.""
Officeholders in Pennsylvania's fledgling Revolutionary government were beholden to militia rank and file who had pulled down the provincial government, raised a new state, and elected them. As a result, the Assembly legislated the Militia Act (March 17, 1777) and the Test Act (June 13, 1777).”
― Francis Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania