Bibliography of 18th century Philadelphia

I'm begging you-- PLEASE cite your sources in any historical writing that you do, even if it's only genealogical writing for your own family, and even if it came from an "unofficial" source, like an interview with someone or from family tradition. I cannot stress this enough. Someone some day will want to know where the information came from.

• Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Company, 1966. This classic work is about the Constitutional Convention held here in 1787.
• Bridenbaugh, Carl, The Press and the Book in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia. In The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1941.
• Bridenbaugh, Carl and Jessica. Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.
• Burt, Struthers. Philadelphia: Holy Experiment. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945.
• Cotter, John L. et al. The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
• Doerflinger, Thomas M. A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
• Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. Diary of Independence Hall. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948.
• Garvan, Anthony N.B. The Mutual Assurance Company Papers, Vol. 1: The Architectural Surveys, 1784-1794. Philadelphia: The Mutual Assurance Company, 1976.
• Garvan, Beatrice B. Federal Philadelphia: The Athens of the Western World. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987.
• Hiltzheimer, Jacob. Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer of Philadelphia. Ed. Jacob Cox Parsons. Philadelphia: William F. Fell, 1893.
• Kelley, Joseph J. Jr. Life and Times in Colonial Philadelphia. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1973.
• Lindsey, Jack L. Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758. Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999. I can't recommend this work enough. If you're only going to get one book on early material culture in Pennsylvania or Philadelphia, get this one. A little pricy for the average reader, but definitely worth it.
• Miller, C. William. Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1974.
• Nash, Gary B.. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
• Peterson, Charles E., ed.. The Rules of Work of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 1786. n.p.: Bell Publishing Company, 1971.
• Roach, Hannah Benner, Colonial Philadelphians. Philadelphia: The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999.
• Scharf, J. Thomas, and Thompson Westcott. History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1884. Another great, if exhaustive, history of the city, though like most 19th century histories it focused on facts rather than analysis.
• Scott, Kenneth. Genealogical Data from the Pennsylvania Chronicle, 1767-1774. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1980.
• Smith, Billy G., ed.. Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods. The University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
• Smith, Billy G. The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.
• Snyder, Martin P. City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia Before 1800. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975.
• Tatum, George B. Philadelphia Georgian: The City House of Samuel Powel and Some of its Eighteenth-Century Neighbors. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1976.
• Thompson, Peter. Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
• Tolles, Frederick B. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.
• Watson, John Fanning. Annals of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey, 1830. The first great history of the city, first published in 1830 and reprinted and updated (notably by Willis Hazard) throughout the 19th century.
• Weigley, Russell F. Philadelphia: A 300-Year History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1982.
• Wolf, Edwin and Maxwell Whiteman. The History of the Jews of Philadelphia from Colonial Times to the Age of Jackson. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957.

Please note that this is not intended to be an exhaustive list. It wil be updated from time to time.