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Convention Army moved to Pennsylvania in 1781 (1781 to 1783) - an army of British and allied troops captured after the Battles of Saratoga. They were held prisoner at Camp Security in York County, PA. Located in present-day Springettsbury Township. Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 (June 20, 1783)
This category includes people associated with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. People in this category should not also be placed in Category:People of colonial Pennsylvania, unless they were notable in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary era (i.e. before about 1765).
Mariam Dadiani (1783–1841) Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling; Robert Daly (bishop) Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont; George Davenport; Samuel Davenport (engraver) William Davidson (Pennsylvania politician) Peter de Blaquière; John I. De Graff; Luigi de Margherita; Oliver Dean; Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn; Peter Vogelius Deinboll
Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the Province of Pennsylvania. Archaeologists generally believe that the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period , though it is unclear when humans first entered present-day Pennsylvania.
It was later merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania to become the University of Pennsylvania. The college was to become influential in guiding the founding documents of the United States: in the Continental Congress , for example, over one-third of the college-affiliated men who contributed to the Declaration of Independence ...
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 ...
William Montgomery (August 3, 1736 – May 1, 1816) was a colonial-American patriot, pioneer, soldier, public servant, and abolitionist.. As a revolutionary patriot, he helped the Province of Pennsylvania declare independence from the British Empire, establish the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [1] and save the American Revolution during the Ten Crucial Days. [2]
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.