| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.3

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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 3, 1757–1775. Edited by Craig W. Horle, Joseph S. Foster, and Laurie M. Wolfe. (Harrisburg: House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 2005. xiii. 1635 pp. Maps and figures, notes, appendices, indices. $60.)

Well written, exhaustively researched, reasonably priced, and attractively presented, volume three of the collective biography of the Pennsylvania Assembly should be a strong candidate for the award offered by the American Historical Association every four years for the best historical reference work. Several of the essays—on William Allen, General Daniel Roberdeau, Thomas Willing, signer of the Declaration of Independence George Ross, and several members of the Potts and Norris families, to cite only a few examples—are superb historical essays on some of the most important yet neglected figures in the colony's history. Craig Horle's essay on Allen, the proprietary party's leader for the quarter-century before the Revolution—forty-eight small-type pages with 344 footnotes—could easily be a small book. Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin are also treated in lengthy essays that stress their assembly service while summarizing the rest of their careers, an intelligent choice given the abundance of work on them.

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