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  2. History of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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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 what is now ...

  3. Pennsylvania Archives - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania Archives are a 138 volume set of reference books compiling transcriptions of letters and early records relating to the colony and state of Pennsylvania. The volumes were published in nine different series between 1838 and 1935 by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature .

  4. Pennsylvania State Archives - Wikipedia

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    The primary function of the Pennsylvania State Archives is to acquire, preserve and make available for study the permanently valuable public records of the Commonwealth, with particular attention given to the records of state government. [2] The State Archives also collects private papers relevant to Pennsylvania history.

  5. Category:1700s in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1700s in Pennsylvania" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Kuskusky

  6. Thomas Penn - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Penn (19 March 1702 [O.S. 8 March 1702] – 21 March 1775) [a] was an English landowner and mercer who was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775. He was one of 17 children of William Penn, the founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania in British America.

  7. History of slavery in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Some Quarter Sessions records of Friends Meetings include births of children identified as mulatto or black. [11] The federal censuses reflect the decline in slavery. In addition to the effects of the state law, many Pennsylvania slaveholders freed their slaves in the first two decades after the Revolution, as did Benjamin Franklin ...

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