Richard C Simmons

Biographic Data

ID3977357
NAMERichard C Simmons
GIVEN NAMESRichard C
FAMILY NAMESimmons
SIGNATURESIMMONS R C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-3843-6542
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Benjamin Franklin and Reparations

    Open AccessRichard C SimmonsARTICLEPennsylvania History A Journal of…2024

    Through a particular document listing his losses during the Revolution, this article explores Benjamin Franklin’s reaction to British depredations and seizures of goods from his house in Philadelphia and his wish for reparations expressed between the years of 1776–1784

  • Colonial Patronage

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

    OW did Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, William, become governor of New Jersey in 1762? The circumstances surrounding his appointment were the subject of contemporary comment, remain obscure, and are of continued interest to historians. Two letters do exist from William Franklin to Lord Bute, however, each seeking an American appointment and neither previously entered into the historical record, even by the indefatigable editors of the Paper…

  • Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution

    Richard C Simmons, Andrew Stephen WalmsleyARTICLEJournal of American History2000

  • Empires

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe English Historical Review2000

    Journal Article Empires: Europe and Globalization, 1492–1788 George Raudzens Get access R. C. Simmons R. C. Simmons University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1307–1308, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1307 Published: 01 November 2000

  • Studies in the Massachusetts Franchise, 1631-1691

    Robert J Dinkin, Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1991

  • The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts

    Ian K Steele, Robert E Moody et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1990

  • The American Colonies

    Open AccessHermann Wellenreuther, Richard C SimmonsCHAPTERAmerikastudien American Studies…1979

  • Short Notices

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe English Historical Review1978

    SHORT NOTICES Get access R. C. SIMMONS R. C. SIMMONS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVI, January 1978, Pages 203–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVI.203 Published: 01 January 1978

  • Short notices

    Charlotte Erickson, Geoffrey Crossick et al.ARTICLESocial History1977

    Howard M. Gitelman, Workingmen of Waltham: Mobility in American Urban Industrial Development, 1850–1890 (1975), xvi+192 (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, £5.50). Michael J. Cullen, The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain. The Foundations of Empirical Social Research (1975), xii+205 (Harvester Press, Hassocks, £7.50). Raymond Wolters, The New negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s (1975), viii+370 (…

  • Short Notices

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe English Historical Review1977

    Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access R. C. SIMMONS R. C. SIMMONS University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXV, October 1977, Pages 904-a–904, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXV.904-a Published: 01 October 1977

  • Class Ideology and Revolutionary War

    Open AccessRichard C SimmonsARTICLEHistory1977

  • Richard Sadler's Account of the Massachusetts Churches

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1969

  • The Founding of the Third Church in Boston

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1969

    T t HE founding in i669 of the Third Church in Boston as a result of a split within the First Church was part of a controversy which lasted for several years and had widespread effects. When the choice of the Reverend John Davenport to succeed John Wilson as minister of the First Church in i667 offended a substantial number of members, they protested without effect and then unsuccessfully sought an orderly dismission from the church. Thereupon, w…

  • Godliness, Property, and the Franchise in Puritan Massachusetts

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEJournal of American History1968

    Journal Article Godliness, Property, and the Franchise in Puritan Massachusetts: An Interpretation Get access Richard C. Simmons Richard C. Simmons lecturer in history University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 3, December 1968, Pages 495–511, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891010 Published: 01 December 1968

  • Mrs. Morris and the Philipse Family, American Loyalists

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1965

  • The Founding of Massachusetts

    Richard C Simmons, Edmund S MorganARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1965

  • Freemanship in Early Massachusetts

    Richard C SimmonsARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1962Cited by: 1

    j^ROM i63i to i664 full political participation in the affairs of Massa> chusetts was legally restricted to one particular group of men, those church members who became freemen.' Nonfreemen who were of age and had taken the oath of fidelity were allowed some voice in town affairs beginning in i647. Eleven years later the General Court extended this privilege to all Englishmen of age who had estates rated at twenty pounds. But both of the laws whi…