11 The religious composition of the Pennsylvania legislature was as follows in these years:
Denomination |
1729-30 |
1739-40 |
1745-46 |
1749-50 |
1754-55 |
Quaker |
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Anglican |
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Presbyterian |
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Moravian |
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Unknown |
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Total |
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% Quaker (Tully) |
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% Quaker (Ryerson) |
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This table comes from Tully, William Perm’s Legacy, 170-73; a second estimate comes from Richard Ryerson, “The Quaker Elite in the Pennsylvania Assembly,” in Bruce C. Daniels, ed., Power and Status; Officeholding in Colonial America (Middletown, Conn., 1986), 106-35.
12 Tully, William Penn’s Legacy, 53.