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Sources consulted for the biography of:Philip Vickers Fithian (1747–1776)
Primary Sources
- Philip Vickers Fithian Journals and Commonplace Books (1766–1776), letters, undergraduate alumni file, and other materials in Firestone Library, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
- Marriage recorded in Deerfield Presbyterian Church records (typescript), Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- Abstract of will from Cumberland Co., N.J., Will Book 18:200, in A. Van Doren Honeyman, ed., Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., vol. 5, 1771–1780 (1931), 178.
- Published Editions include:
- Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal and Letters, 1767–1774, ed., John Rogers Williams (1900), with birth date from family records on xv.
- Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, 1775–1776, Written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania Frontier and in the Army Around New York, ed. Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Leonidas Dodson (1934), with death date from journal of Andrew Hunter on 243.
- Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773–1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, ed. Hunter Dickinson Farish (1943), quotation on 212.
Biographies
- Vincent S. McCluskey, "The Life and Times of Philip Vickers Fithian" (Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1991).
- John Fea, "The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian's Rural Enlightenment," Journal of American History 90 (2003), 462–490.
- John Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (2008), portrait on 207.
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