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  2. Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    The features of indentured servitude in Pennsylvania, like other colonies, underwent a series of transformations. For example, indentured servitude initially possessed a patriarchal character. Under the "head right" system, prospective proprietors could receive 50 acres (20 ha) for each "head" (servant/laborer) they brought over, with 50 acres ...

  3. Province of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. History of slavery in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    1796 Runaway advertisement for Oney Judge, a slave from George Washington's presidential household in Philadelphia. When the Dutch and Swedes established colonies in the Delaware Valley of what is now Pennsylvania, in North America, they quickly imported enslaved Africans for labor; the Dutch also transported them south from their colony of New Netherland.

  5. History of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Redemptioner - Wikipedia

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    The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1700 to 1775 and The Redemptioners. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. ISBN 0-8063-0776-5. Herrick, Cheesman Abiah (2011). White Servitude in Pennsylvania: Indentured and Redemption Labor in Colony and Commonwealth. New York: Negro Universities Press 1969, c1926 ...

  7. Indentured servitude in British America - Wikipedia

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    Between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came under indentures. [6] The practice was sufficiently common that the Habeas Corpus Act 1679, in part, prevented imprisonments overseas; it also made provisions for those with existing transportation contracts and those "praying to be transported" in lieu of ...

  8. Category:People from colonial Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This category includes who did defining things while thry were residents of the Province of Pennsylvania prior about July 1776. Those for whom only their life after about that date is defining, or those who only lived in Pennsylvania after that date should go in other categories. The Category should be limited to the de facto limits of ...

  9. List of colonial governors of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Miller, Randall M. and William Pencak, eds. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Treese, Lorett. The Storm Gathering: The Penn Family and the American Revolution. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-271-00858-X

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