The printed collections listed below focus on the colonial and early national history of Pennsylvania. Additional printed collections of Pennsylvania sources can be found in historical journals such as the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, and the William and Mary Quarterly. For help locating any of the volumes listed below, consult our Finding Published Sources page.

The Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, ed. John F. Watson, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1905)

Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790, eds. Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz (Philadelphia, 1989)

Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan…, ed. Edward Armstrong (Philadelphia, 1870)

The Democratic-Republican Societies, 1790-1800, ed. Philip S. Foner (Westport, 1976)

Diary of David Zeisberger, A Moravian Missionary among the Indians of Ohio, ed. and trans. Eugene F. Bliss, 2 vols. (Cincinnati, 1885)

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker, ed. Elaine F. Crane, 3 vols. (Boston, 1991)

The Diary of William Maclay, and Other Notes on Senate Debates, eds. Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit (Baltimore, 1988)

Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774, eds. Reuben G. Thwaites and Louise P. Kellogg (Madison, 1904)

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York…, ed. E. B. O’Callaghan, 15 vols. (Albany, 1853-1887)

Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall (Albany, 1877)

Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio, 1778 - 1779, ed. Louise Phelps Kellogg (Madison, 1916)

Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777 - 1778, eds. Reuben G. Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg (Madison, 1912)

Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779 - 1782, ed. Louise P. Kellogg (Madison, 1917)

George Washington’s Beautiful Nelly: The Letters of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794-1851, ed. Patricia Brady (Columbia, 1991)

“John Hays’ Diary and Journal of 1760,” ed. William A. Hunter, Pennsylvania Archaeologist 24 (1954): 63-84

The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, ed. and trans. Theodore G. Tappert and John W. Doberstein, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1942-1958)

The Life and Writings of Alexander James Dallas, ed. George Mifflin Dallas (Philadelphia, 1871)

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inahbited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States, ed. William C. Reichel (Philadelphia, 1876)

Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, ed. Frances A. Logan (Philadelphia, 1899)

Memorials of the Moravian Church, ed. William C. Reichel, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1870)

Milcah Martha Moore’s Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America, eds. Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf (University Park, 1997)

Minutes of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, 1704-1776 (Philadelphia, 1847)

Minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association from A.D. 1707 to A.D. 1807…, ed. A. D. Gillette (Philadelphia, 1851)

Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania from the Organization to the Termination of Proprietary Government, ed. Samuel Hazard, 16 vols. (Harrisburg, 1838-1853)

Naval Documents of the American Revolution, eds. William Bell Clark, et. al., 13 vols. (Washington, 1964 - )

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, eds. Leonard W. Labaree, et. al., 43 vols. (New Haven, 1959- )

The Papers of Henry Bouquet, eds. Sylvester K. Stevens and Donald H. Kent, 19 vols. (Harrisburg, 1940-1943)

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781 - 1784, eds. John Catanzariti, et. al., 9 vols. (Pittsburgh, 1973-1999)

The Papers of William Penn, eds. Mary Maples Dunn, et al., 5 vols. (Philadelphia, 1981-1986)

The Papers of Sir William Johnson, eds. Alexander C. Flick, et. al. 14 vols. (Albany, 1921-1965)

The Paxton Papers, ed. John R. Dunbar (The Hague, 1957)

Pennsylvania Archives, ed. Samuel Hazard et al., 9 series (Harrisburg, 1832-1935)

Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851, ed. ed. Eliza Cope Harrison (South Bend, 1978)

The Register of Pennsylvania, ed. Samuel Hazard, 16 vols. (Philadelphia, 1828-1835)

The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775 - 1777, eds. Reuben G. Thwaites and Louise P. Kellogg (Madison, 1908)

Schoenbrunn Story: Excerpts from the Diary of the Reverend David Zeisberger, 1772 - 1777, ed. Daniel R. Porter, trans. August C. Mahr (Columbus, 1972)

Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson, ed. Nancy Craig Simmons (Athens, 1993)

The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, vol. 1, January 1814 - March 1865, eds. Beverly Wilson Palmer and Holly Byers Ochoa (Pittsburgh, 1997)

The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801, eds. James T. Mitchell et al., 18 vols. (Harrisburg, 1896-1915)

The St. Clair Papers: The Life and Public Services of Arthur St. Clair…, ed. William Henry Smith, 2 vols. (Cincinnati, 1882)

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, 6 vols. (Philadelphia, 1752-1776)

Washington-Irvine Correspondence: The Official Letters Which Passed between Washington and Brig.-Gen. William Irvine and between Irvine and Others concerning Military Affairs in the West from 1781 to 1783, ed. C. W. Butterfield (Madison, 1882)

Wilderness Chronicles of Northwestern Pennsylvania, eds. Sylvester K. Stevens and Donald Kent (Harrisburg, 1941)

The Writings of Albert Gallatin, ed. Henry Adams, 3 vols. (New York, 1879)

The Writings of John Dickinson, vol. 1, Political Writings, 1764-1774, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (Philadelphia, 1895)