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Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen, 87-90, 95-96, 98-99. 3 Alan Tully, "Literacy Levels and Educational Development in Rural Pennsylvania, 1729-1775," Pennsylvania History, 39 (1972), 301-312; Kenneth A. Lockridge, Literacy in Colonial New England, An Enquiry into the Social Context of Literacy in the Early