Delaware: Sources

  • Delaware Archives. Delaware Archives. Wilmington, DE: Star Publishing Co., 1911-1916. 5 vols. online
  • Delaware Assembly and Convention Proceedings 1770-1781. Bushman, Claudia L.; Hancock, Harold B.; Homsey, Elizabeth Moyne (ed.) Proceedings of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware, 1770-1776, of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1776-1781. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986.
  • Delaware Assembly and Convention Proceedings 1781-1792. Bushman, Claudia L.; Hancock, Harold B.; Homsey, Elizabeth Moyne (ed.) Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1781-1792, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1792. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988. online
  • Delaware Assembly Votes. Votes of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State. Wilmington, DE, 1777-1791 [title and place of publication vary in several volumes]
  • Delaware Constitution 1792. The Constitution of the State of Delaware. Wilmington: Brynberg and Andrews, 1792.
  • Delaware Convention Minutes 1792. Minutes of the Convention of the Delaware State, At the Second session thereof, Which commenced at Dover, on Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, For the purpose of reviewing, altering, and amending the Constitution of this State, or if they see occasion, for forming a new one instead thereof. Wilmington: Brynberg and Andrews, 1792.
  • Delaware Convention Proceedings 1776. Proceedings of the Convention of the Delaware State, held at New-Castle On Tuesday the Twenty-seventh of August, 1776. Wilmington: James Adams, 1776 (reprint: Star Publishing Co., 1927) online (reprint)
  • Delaware Council of Safety Minutes. De Valinger, Leon, Jr. (ed.) "Council of Safety Minutes," Delaware History 1 (1946): 55-78.
  • Delaware House Journal. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware. Wilmington: Printed by Brynberg and Andrews, 1792-. [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1835-2015
  • Delaware Legislative Council Minutes 1776-1792. Minutes of the Council of the Delaware State, from 1776 to 1792. Dover, DE: James Kirk & Son, 1886. online
  • Delaware Papers 1664-1682. Gehring, Charles T. (ed.) New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch: Volumes XX-XXI: Delaware Papers (English Period), A Collection of Documents Pertaining to the Regulation of Affairs on the Delaware, 1664-1682. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. online
  • Delaware Senate Journal. Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware. Wilmington: Printed by James Adams, 1792-. [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1831-2005
  • Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River. Fernow, Berthold (ed.) Documents Relating to the History of the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River, Translated and Compiled from Original Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, and in the Royal Archives, at Stockholm, by B. Fernow, Keeper of the Historical Records. Albany: The Argus Company, 1877. online
  • Gipson (1960). Gipson, Lawrence Henry. "An Anomalous American Colony," Pennsylvania History 27, No. 2 (1960): 144-164. online
  • Journals of the Continental Congress. Ford, Worthington C., et al. (ed.) Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904-1937. 34 vols. online
  • Laws of Delaware. Laws of the State of Delaware, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred, to... New Castle: Samuel and John Adams, 1797-1816, 4 vols. online
  • New York Colonial Documents. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York: procured in Holland, England, and France. Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1853-1887. 15 vols. online
  • Penn-Logan Correspondence. Armstrong, Edward (ed.) Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan, secretary of the province of Pennsylvanis, and others, 1700-1750. From the original letters in possession of the Logan family. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1870-1872. 2 vols. online: vol. 1, vol. 2
  • Pennsylvania Assembly Votes 1682-1776. MacKinney, Gertrude; Hoban, C.F. (ed.) "Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Archives, 8th series, 1931-1935. 8 vols. online
  • Read (1870). Read, William Thompson (ed.) Life and Correspondence of George Read, A Signer of the Declaration of Independence; with notices of some of his contemporaries. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1870. online
  • Rodney (1930). Rodney, Richard S. "Early Relations of Delaware and Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 54, No. 3 (1930): 209-240. online