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James Davis came to the North Carolina province in 1749, answering a call by their Assembly for an official printer to print their laws, legal journals and paper currency. He became the first printer to establish a print shop in that colony and in the process, founded and printed North Carolina's first newspaper, the North-Carolina Gazette.
Edward Paston in the age of 78. Sir Edward Paston (1550–1630), second son of Sir Thomas Paston, was a Catholic gentleman of Norfolk, a poet, and amateur musician living in the reign of Elizabeth I. [1]
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 Center Square) – In 2024, the transition to renewable energy and its impact on power grid demand and reliability continued to challenge Pennsylvania lawmakers. A partisan divide in the ...
The President of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor, who has no vote except in the event of tie in the Senate, where the vote is 25-25. The legislature meets in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. Its session laws are published in the official Laws of Pennsylvania, [6] which are codified in the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes.
The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 117. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2009. Trostle, Sharon, ed. (2007). The Pennsylvania Manual (PDF). Vol. 118. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Department of General Services. ISBN 978-0-8182-0318-3. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 5 ...
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from the Latin for "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681. Quakers, they had emigrated from England in part to escape religious persecution.