Books on 18th-Century Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

Yes, I really did read all these books. 

1) Reproduction of Birch’s Celebrated Historical Views of Philadelphia
 
2) Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia
By Karin Wulf
 
3) The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker 
By Elizabeth Drinker
 
4) The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800
By Billy G. Smith
 
5) Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment
By Kevin Kenny
 
6) Flow: The Life and Times of the Schuylkill River
By Beth Kephart
 
7) Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800
By Jack D. Marietta
 
8) Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840
By Gary B. Nash
 
9) Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800
By Peter C. Mancall
 
10) M. de Garsault’s 1767 Art of the Shoemaker
I’m including this book because—although not specifically about Philadelphia or Pennsylvania—one of my lead characters is bought by a shoemaker. 
 
11) The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane, 1718-1806
Samuel Lane was a shoemaker who lived in New Hampshire. 
By Gerald E. Brown