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A Colony Sprung from Hell: Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744–1794. kent: The Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1606351901. Illick, Joseph E. (1976). Colonial Pennsylvania: A History. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0684145655. Lamberton, E. V., et al. “Colonial Libraries of Pennsylvania.”
The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of present-day Pennsylvania. In 1681, Pennsylvania became an English colony when William Penn received a royal deed from King Charles II of England.
The American goal in intervening in South Vietnam before and during the Vietnam War was not to make it a "colony" but completely to help the state here face the threat of the North and maintain an anti-communist capitalist outpost as part of a strategy to contain international communism; [156] the United States did not invade Vietnam as ...
William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Philadelphia became the largest city in the colonies with its central location, excellent port, and a population of about 30,000. [63] By the mid-18th century, Pennsylvania was basically a middle-class colony with limited deference to the small upper-class. A writer in the Pennsylvania Journal summed it up in 1756:
Vietnam War: 1964–1975 ... The New England Colonies, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, were substantially motivated by their founders' concerns related to the practice of ...
After Penn became ill in 1712, his second wife Hannah Callowhill Penn served as acting proprietor. After William's death in 1718, interest in the proprietorship passed to his three sons by Hannah: John Penn "the American" , Thomas Penn , and Richard Penn, Sr. , with John inheriting the largest share and becoming the chief proprietor.
The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania was a proto-constitution for the Province of Pennsylvania, a proprietary colony granted to William Penn by Charles II of England. The Frame of Government has lasting historical importance as an important step in the development of American and world democracy .