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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the first capital under the First Continental Congress from September 5, 1774 to October 24, 1774. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the first capital under the Articles of Confederation from March 1, 1781 to June 21, 1783 [11] [12] 1780 — First abolition law, while the state capital was in Philadelphia [13]
Whereas indentured servants in late-17th and early-18th centuries migrated predominantly from England, Scotland, and Wales (Great Britain after 1707 Acts of Union), a majority of those in the mid-to-late 18th century consisted of Irish and German/Palatinate immigrants. [9]
17th-century people from Pennsylvania (1 C) Y. Years of the 17th century in Pennsylvania (19 C) This page was last edited on 15 June 2024, at 18:19 (UTC). Text is ...
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.
Old Philadelphians, also called Proper Philadelphians [1] or Perennial Philadelphians, [2] are the First Families of Philadelphia, that class of Pennsylvanians who claim hereditary and cultural descent mainly from England, also from Ulster, Wales and even Germany, and who founded the city of Philadelphia. They settled the state of Pennsylvania.
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In the 17th century, the Dutch, Swedish, and British all competed for southeastern Pennsylvania, while the French expanded into parts of western Pennsylvania. In 1638, the Kingdom of Sweden , then one of the great powers in Europe, established the colony of New Sweden in the area of the present-day Mid-Atlantic states .
The Van Leer family, originally spelled Von Lohr, is an influential German–American family that emigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania in the 17th century from the Electorate of Hesse near Isenberg, Germany. The family made their fortune in the United States through the ironworks business.