1The Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Its Delegates in Congress, [14 June 1776] (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of . . . Pennsylvania . . . (Philadelphia, 1776), VI , 740. Since the previous autumn, when the Pennsylvania delegates had been instructed not to vote for independence, the Assembly had come under mounting attack. One ground of attack was apportionment: Philadelphia, the center of radicalism, and the western counties were...
2The Pennsylvania Assembly: Instructions to Its Delegates in Congress, 9 November 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania ..., VI (Philadelphia, 1776), 647; AD (draft): Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In May the Pennsylvania Assembly had committed its delegates to military resistance, colonial union, and a continued search for compromise. After the elections in October the new Assembly chose a new Congressional delegation, again...