CHESTER COUNTY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ashmead, Henry Graham. History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884. (Note: clicking on this link takes you out of the Chadds Ford Historical Society website. Please bookmark this site so you can return.)

Futhey, J. Smith and Cope, Gilbert. The History of Chester County. Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881.

Hood, Adrienne D. "The Material World of Cloth: Production and Use in Eighteenth Century Rural Pennsylvania." The William and Mary Quarterly. 53 (January 1996): 43-66.

Jensen, Joan M. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Lemon, James T. The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern  Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972.

Lemon, James T. and Gary B. Nash. "The Distribution of Wealth in Eighteenth-Century America: A Century of Change in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1693-1802." Journal of Social History. 2 (1968): 1-24.

Simler, Lucy. "The Landless Worker: An Index of Economic and Social Change in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1820." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 114 (April 1990): 163-199.

Simler, Lucy. "Tenancy in Colonial Pennsylvania: The Case of Chester County." The William and Mary Quarterly. 43 (October 1986): 542-569.

Simler, Lucy. "The Township: The Community of the Rural Pennsylvanian." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 106 (January 1982): 41-68.

Sweitzer, Mary M. Custom and Contract: Household, Government, and the Economy in Colonial Pennsylvania. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Waciega, Lisa Wilson. "A 'Man of Business': The Widow of Means in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1750-1850." The William and Mary Quarterly. 44 (January 1987): 40-64.

Copies of all of these books and articles can be found in the CFHS library.

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