3 Lemon, Best Poor Man’s Country, 65; John R. Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 (New Haven, 1982), 79.
4 Penn, “A Further Account of Pennsylvania,” in Myers, ed., Narratives of Pennsylvania, 263.
5 James T. Lemon and Gary B. Nash, “The Distribution of Wealth in Eighteenth Century America,” JSH 2 (1968), 1-24; for similar patterns of wealth distribution in Germantown, Pa., see Wolf, Urban Village, 108-9, 120-24.