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Colonial Germantown was a leader in religious thought, printing, and education. Important dates in Germantown's early history include: [6] August 16, 1683, Pastorius arrives in Philadelphia; October 25, 1683, Lots are drawn for land among Pastorius's followers and settlement begins; 1688, first American anti-slavery protest published
The site includes a small German colonial manor house that dates to 1803 with a large brick addition dating to 1858 and an attached log house, and a stone woolen mill that date to 1805. The original 1803 manor house is a two-and-one-half-story, three-bay wide building.
Daniel Boone was born on October 22, 1734. Because the Gregorian calendar was adopted during Boone's lifetime, his birth date is given as November 2, 1734 (the "New Style" date), although Boone always used the October date. He was the sixth of eleven children in a family of Quakers.
The Henry Antes House is a historic house museum in Upper Frederick Township Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.Built in 1736 by Henry Antes, it is a particularly high-quality example of a Moravian settlement house, with intact original interior finishes.
Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation in the park. The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a living museum on the 112-acre (0.45 km 2) farm where the Pratt family lived from 1720 to 1820. Admission is charged and it is open to the general public on weekends from April through November. [8] [9]
Pennsbury Manor is the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1699 to 1701. He left it and returned to England in 1701, where he died penniless in 1718. Following his departure and financial woes, the estate fell into numerous hands and disrepair.
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The Province of Pennsylvania's colonial government was established in 1683, by William Penn's Frame of Government.Penn was appointed governor and a 72-member Provincial Council and larger General Assembly were responsible for governing the province.