Vols. 1-3 are reprints, Philadelphia, Printed by J. Severn, 1852. Original edition has imprint Harrisburg, Printed by Theo. Fenn, 1838-1840. Initial and inclusive publication period 1838-1860. An index volume was issued in 1860.|||Collection of documents, supplemented by the companion series "Pennsylvania archives". (See preliminary reports of the committees, and of the editors, S. Hazard, and the Act providing for the publication, 1837, in Pennsylvania archives, v. 1, p. 1-23, especially p. 7 and 17-23, where the present collection is officially designated as the "Colonial records", a title not used in printing, the vols. having special titles only.