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The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of present-day ...
The conflict escalated through the first half of the decade, culminating in the deployment of military forces by Maryland in 1736 and by Pennsylvania in 1737. The armed phase of the conflict ended in May 1738 with the intervention of King George II, who compelled the negotiation of a ceasefire.
1738–1747 Philadelphia: 19 Anthony Palmer: President of Council: 1747 Philadelphia: 20 James Hamilton: Deputy Governor: 1748–1754 Philadelphia: 21 Robert Hunter Morris: Deputy Governor: 1754–1756 Philadelphia: 22 William Denny Deputy Governor: 1756–1759 Philadelphia: Acting and 23 James Hamilton: Deputy Governor: 1759–1763 ...
The 8th Pennsylvania Regiment or Mackay's Battalion was an American infantry unit that became part of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized for frontier defense in July 1776, the eight-company unit was originally called Mackay's Battalion after its commander, Colonel Aeneas Mackay.
Lincoln was born May 13, 1744, in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania. [6] He was the first child born to John and Rebekah Lincoln, who had nine children in all: Abraham born 1744, twins Hannah and Lydia born 1748, Isaac born 1750, Jacob born 1751, John born 1755, Sarah born 1757, Thomas born 1761, and Rebekah born 1767.
Four of the five family members found dead in a house fire near Philadelphia were fatally shot by an adult male relative who also killed himself after setting fire to the home, authorities said ...
It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War. Of the 26 settlers they found living on Penn's Creek, the Lenape killed 14 and took 11 captive (one man was wounded but managed to escape).