General Accounts.--Avery, III. chs. x.-xxvii.; G. Bancroft, II. 212-565; Channing, II. chs. xi.-xix.; Doyle, V.; G. Eggleston, _Eighteenth Century_; Frothingham, _Rise of Republic_, ch. iv.; Greene, as above; Hildreth, II. chs. xxii.-xxvii.; Lodge, _Colonies_; E. Sparks, _Expansion of American People_; Wilson, _American People_, II. chs. i.-iii; Winsor, V. chs. ii.-vi. Special Histories.--Political: L. Kellogg, _Colonial Charter_; Channing, _Town and County Government_; A. Cross, _Anglican Episcopate_; Greene, _Provincial Governor_; C. Bishop, _Elections in American Colonies_; A. McKinley, _Suffrage Franchise_; McCrady, _South Carolina_.--Economic: Weeden, _Economic History_; E. Lord, _Industrial Experiments_; G. Beer, _Commercial Policy_; R. Paine, _Ships and Sailors of Old Salem_.--Nationalities: L. Fosdick, _French Blood in America_; J. Rosengarten, _French Colonists and Exiles_; S. Cobb, _Palatines_; F. Diffenderfer, _German Immigration_; L. Bittinger, _Germans in Colonial Times_, and _German Religious Life_; Sachse, _German Sectarians_; Wayland, _German Element_; C. Hanna, _Scotch-Irish_; McLean, _Scotch Highlanders_.--Financial: D. Dewey, _Financial History_, ch. i.; A. Davis, _Currency in Massachusetts Bay_; F. McLeod, _Fiat Money in New England_; C. MacFarlane, _Pennsylvania Paper Currency_; W. Shaw, _Currency_.--Taxation: F. Jones, _Taxation in Connecticut_.--Press: L. Schuyler, _Liberty of Press_; L. Rutherford, _Zenger_.--See also F. Dexter, _Population in Colonies_, and state histories. Contemporary Accounts.--Hutchinson, _History of Massachusetts Bay_; Falckner, _Curieuse Nachricht von Pennsylvania_ (1702); Madam Knight, _Journal_ (1704); Fontaine, _Diary_ (1710-1716); Mittelberger, _Journey to Pennsylvania_ (1750-1754); Franklin, _Autobiography_; Woolman, _Journal_. 119. Population (1700-1750). Sidenote: Phases of common development. Up to 1700 the history of each colony is the history of a unit; the impulse of colonization came in successive waves, but each little commonwealth had its own interests, its own struggles, and looked forward to its own future. From 1700 to 1750, though the separate life and history of each colony continued, there were perceptible certain great phases of common development, which will be briefly outlined. Sidenote: Growth of population.