10 Bockelman, “Local Government in Colonial Pennsylvania,” 216-37.

11 In various elections of legislators and local officers throughout the Delaware Valley, the following levels of turnout were recorded (as a percentage of adult white males):

Place

Year

Turnout

Place

Year

Turnout

Bucks Co., Pa.

1738

26%

Philadelphia Co., Pa.

1727

28%

 

1739

19%

 

1728

33%

 

1740

22%

 

1730

19%

 

1765

46%

 

1732

26%

 

1742

38%

 

1734

22%

Chester Co., Pa.

1737

29%

 

1735

28%

 

1738

37%

 

1736

18%

 

1739

32%

 

1737

21%

 

1742

32%

 

1738

29%

 

1765

22%

 

1739

12%

 

 

 

 

1740

38%

Lancaster Co., Pa.

1737

31%

 

1741

23%

 

1738

40%

 

1742

34%

 

1740

34%

 

1743

19%

 

1741

37%

 

 

 

 

1742

45%

Philadelphia City, Pa.

1737

15%

 

1749

32%

 

1742

32%

 

1757

14%

 

1751

37%

 

1765

48%

 

1757

23%

 

 

 

 

1758

7%

Middlesex Co., N.J.

1754

49%

 

1764

42%

Kent Co., Del.

1751

48%

 

1765

62%

 

 

 

 

1766

46%

 

 

 

 

1774

36%

 

 

 

 

1775

27%

Sources: Robert J. Dinkin, Voting in Provincial America (Westmont, Conn., 1977), 158-59; Tully, William Penn’s Legacy, 93; Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage from Property to Democracy (Princeton, 1960), 34; Richard P. McCormick, History of Voting in New Jersey (New Brunswick, 1963), 63; David P. Peltier, “Border State Democracy: A History of Voting in Delaware, 1682-1897” (thesis, Univ. of Del., 1967), 36.