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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 ...
The original settlement was the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States. 1634: Trois-Rivières: Quebec: Canada: 1634: Willemstad: Curaçao: Kingdom of the Netherlands: Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, now a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: 1635 Hingham: Massachusetts United States
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
Long before the U.S. declared its independence on July 4, 1776, many European explorers had already founded lasting settlements. These are 10 of the oldest inhabited cities in the U.S. that you ...
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.
Pennsylvania was historically referred to by the nickname Quaker State during the colonial era [226] based on the influential role that William Penn and other Quakers played in establishing the first frame of government constitution for the Province of Pennsylvania that guaranteed liberty of conscience, which was a reflection of Penn's ...
Scientists uncovered the origin of the oldest known surviving tombstone in the US, according to a new study. ... a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first ...
On March 4, 1681, what had been the colony of New Sweden was formally partitioned into the colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The border was established 12 miles north of New Castle, and the northern limit of Pennsylvania was set at 42 degrees north latitude.