1776 in Pennsylvania information

This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Pennsylvania. Colonel Governor: John Penn (1773–1776) January 2 – The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph...

The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (ratified September 28, 1776) was the state's first constitution following its declaration of independence and has...

1776 is celebrated in the United States as the official beginning of the nation, with the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies from the...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1776. 1776 (MDCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

Tory Act of 1776 was penned as seven resolutions passed by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1776. The legislative...

In colonial times (1682–1776), the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly and was unicameral. Since the Constitution of 1776,...

delegates to a constitutional convention – which framed the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. As the last holdout among the Thirteen Colonies to declare...

Congress in Philadelphia, which produced the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 for the newly established commonwealth and created the new Pennsylvania General...

governor as Pennsylvania until independence in 1776. List of Pennsylvania counties by per capita income List of county seats in Pennsylvania (by population)...

Declaration of Independence was previously adopted and signed in 1776. On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution...

slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and Pennsylvania (1780). In 1723, Germantown became the site of the first congregation of Schwarzenau Brethren in the...

Franklin, who also served as its sixth president. The 1776 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was framed by a constitutional convention called...

until he received a Continental Navy commission in October 1776. By the end of August 1776, the Pennsylvania State Navy consisted of 768 men manning 27 vessels...

subordinate to it. Since 1776, Pennsylvania's Constitution has undergone five versions. The current Constitution entered into force in 1968, and has been amended...

The Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanisch Deitsche), also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and...

Pennsylvania elections were also held in October. Assemblymen had a one-year term. The Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council was created in 1776, and...

Local 1776 represents workers in the state of Pennsylvania for the United Food and Commercial Workers. The larger majority of their members work in grocery...

Commission Publications 1776 Constitution text Pennsylvania Indian Tribes Listing of Indian tribes with a historical presence in Pennsylvania Boston Public Library...

to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee...

of Patton's Additional Continental Regiment. In 1776, Patton had commanded a battalion of the Pennsylvania State Rifle Regiment. Half of Malcolm's Additional...

declared its independence, Pennsylvania was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 created the Supreme Executive...

In the first half of 1776, the Thirteen Colonies individually declared independence from the British Empire. On July 4, the Declaration of Independence...

Independence Makes Headlines in 1776 and 2016." Washington, D.C.: Voice of America, July 4, 2016. "Declaration. The Pennsylvania Evening Post. Philadelphia:...