5 Alan Tully obtained the following results from Pennsylvania wills (1729-1774):
|
|
Percent Signing by Mark |
| ||
Place |
Period |
Male |
Female |
Mean |
Number |
Chester Co. |
1729-44 |
|
|
|
|
|
1745-54 |
|
|
|
|
|
1755-64 |
|
|
|
|
|
1765-74 |
|
|
|
|
Lancaster Co. |
1729-44 |
|
|
|
|
|
1745-54 |
|
|
|
|
|
1755-64 |
|
|
|
|
|
1765-74 |
|
|
|
|
Source: Alan Tully, “Literacy Levels and Educational Development in Rural Pennsylvania, 1729-1775,” PH, 39 (1972), 304.
6 Lawrence Cremin reported the following results for Philadelphia:
|
Percent Signing by Mark |
| |
Period |
Male |
Female |
N |
1699-1706 |
|
|
50 |
1773-1775 |
|
|
136 |
Source: Cremin, American Education: The Colonial Experience (New York, 1974).