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    The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land...
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    Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the United States, with over 13 million residents as of the...
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    Middle Colonies (category Colonization history of the United States)
    which would become the Province of New Jersey and the Province of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Colony later separated from Pennsylvania, which was founded by...
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    the name of The Trustees of the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania; ... in the year of our Lord...
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    of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now Pennsylvania. In 1681, Pennsylvania became...
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  • Province of Georgia (1732–1777) American Middle Colonies Province of New Jersey (1664–1776) Province of New York (1664–1783) Province of Pennsylvania...
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    ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other American states. They largely descend from the Palatinate region of Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania during the...
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    in the table links to census data for the specific county. The Province of Pennsylvania's Three Lower Counties had been transferred from New York Colony...
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    region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania and a de facto British colony in North America. Although not royally sanctioned, Delaware consisted of the...
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  • original Amish Mennonite settler of a prominent landholder, farmer and gristmill owner in the Province of Pennsylvania. He initially migrated to Montbéliard...
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    as deputy governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1754 and from 1759 to 1763. From 1745 to 1747, he was the mayor of Philadelphia Hamilton...
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    William Penn (Royal Navy officer) (category English people of Welsh descent)
    House of Commons from 1660 to 1670. He was the father of William Penn, founder of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which is now the US state of Pennsylvania...
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    Penn's first arrival in the Province of Pennsylvania. It was the county seat for Chester County from 1682 to 1788 and of Delaware County from 1789 to...
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    criminal gangs, taking advantage of the disruption of warfare. The present-day U.S. Army 111th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania Army National Guard's 56th Stryker...
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    Richard Penn Sr. (category Colonial governors of Pennsylvania)
    February 1771) was a proprietary and titular governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, which then included...
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  • John Penn ("the American") (category People from colonial Pennsylvania)
    American-born merchant who was proprietor of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania following American independence...
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    influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn, an advocate of democracy and religious freedom, was...
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  • Look up Pennsylvania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pennsylvania is a state in the United States. Pennsylvania may also refer to: Province of Pennsylvania...
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    The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the...
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  • Revenant, both of which depict Glass's bear attack and journey. Henry was born in or around 1776 in Fayette County, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and was...
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    were particularly prevalent in Province of Pennsylvania and the geographic region that ultimately broke from Pennsylvania to form the Delaware Colony. Among...
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    Hannah Callowhill Penn (category Colonial governors of Pennsylvania)
    of Pennsylvania founder William Penn, she effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years after her husband suffered a series of strokes...
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    Deborah Read (category People from colonial Pennsylvania)
    legally remarry. At that time, the law in the Province of Pennsylvania would not grant a divorce on the grounds of desertion; nor could Read claim to be a widow...
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    Proprietary colony (category English colonization of the Americas)
    Province of Georgia Province of North Carolina Province of South Carolina Province of Pennsylvania Province of Massachusetts Bay Province of New Hampshire...
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    Philadelphia was planned and was made the county seat and the capital of the Province of Pennsylvania. Penn wanted Philadelphia, meaning "love brotherly", to be...
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    Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755, and died a few days later. British operations failed in the frontier areas of the Province of Pennsylvania and...
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    was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape native Indians. In the...
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    The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers...
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  • Hampshire Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Connecticut Colony Province of New York Province of New Jersey Province of Pennsylvania Delaware Colony...
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    of, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city's population was 28,127 as of the 2020 census. Easton is located at the confluence of the...
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