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

18

24

25

24

27

Anglican

3

5

2

1

1

Presbyterian

3

1

2

3

2

Baptist

2

 

 

 

 

Dutch Reformed

1

 

 

1

1

Moravian

 

 

 

 

1

Deist

 

 

 

 

1

Non-Quaker

 

 

 

2

3

Unknown

3

 

1

1

 

Total

30

30

30

32

36

% Quaker (Tully)

60%

80%

83%

75%

75%

% Quaker (Ryerson)

63%

90%

87%

75%

75%

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.