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January 2 – The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph. [1] June 18–25 – The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference takes place at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia declaring Pennsylvania independent from Great Britain. July 4 – Henry Beeson published a plat of quarter-acre plots near his mill in Union now Uniontown. [2]
Map of the District of West Augusta and the three counties formed from it in 1776.. The District of West Augusta was a short-lived (1774–76) historical region of Colonial Virginia that encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
September 20, 1776 The Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware enacted a constitution, renaming itself the Delaware State. [30] September 28, 1776 The State of Pennsylvania enacted a constitution, renaming itself the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [31] no change to map: December 20, 1776
In an apparent effort to strengthen its political control of the area, in November 1776 Virginia reorganized the District of West Augusta into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County. [4] Pennsylvania and Virginia finally settled the boundary dispute in 1780. [5]
A map of present-day New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania showing Washington's crossing point in present-day Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and his proposed attack site at Trenton; after evaluating several options, Washington settled on a complex military operation and surprise attack on a Hessian garrison in the Battle of Trenton
Tri-Counties Genealogy & History page, includes text of treaty; 1769 map from A Documentary History of the State of New York Vol. I, by E. B. O'Callaghan (cited in References, above) Historical Maps of Pennsylvania, 1765–1769; History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; Photograph of boundary stone at Hamilton College
Pennsylvania's new constitution was tied to ongoing political changes within the province in 1776. As the Revolution evolved, the views of some political leaders differed from those of the Provincial Assembly (and its supporters) and of the Deputy Governor, John Penn. Extralegal committees were established that would eventually displace and ...