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Thomas Mifflin

Thomas Mifflin, by Charles Willson Peale in the Independence Hall Museum, Philadelphia, PA

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Thomas Mifflin at age 15 or 16 by Benjamin West at the Philadelphia Art Museum

Memoirs and Papers

Limited number of manuscripts and papers in the Library of Congress, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and The Morgan Library.

Other Primary Sources

Biographies

Rawle, William. “Sketch of the Life of Thomas Mifflin.” Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, II, no. Part 2 (1830): 107–27.

Rossman, Kenneth R. Thomas Mifflin and the Politics of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1952.

Rossman, Kenneth R. “Thomas Mifflin – Revolutionary Patriot.” Pennsylvania History:  A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Pennsylvania State University Press, 15, no. 1 (January 1948): 9–23.

Located at Pipers Tavern in Pipersville, PA