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September 16 – The 11th Pennsylvania Regiment is authorized. September 28 – The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 is ratified. December 25 – American Revolution: At 6 p.m. Gen. George Washington and his troops, numbering 2,400, march to McConkey's Ferry , cross the Delaware River , and land on the New Jersey bank by 3 a.m. the following ...
A 1763 map of the Thirteen Colonies and the Indian Reserve, a settlement prohibited by the British Crown that sparked resentment among Americans Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States and Pennsylvania delegate to the Second Continental Congress, which created the Continental Army in 1775 and unanimously adopted and issued the ...
Declaration of Independence (1776) Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (1776) The American Crisis - pamphlet series by Thomas Paine (1776-1777) Articles of Confederation - adopted by the Continental Congress at their temporary meeting location of York, PA while Philadelphia was under occupation by Crown forces (1777) Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778)
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.”
1776 in the Thirteen Colonies; History of the United States (1776–1789) ... Innis Green, congressman for Pennsylvania (died 1839) ... "1776". Timeline.
1699 – Parliament bans export of colonial woolens. Free blacks ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia. 1700 – Neutrality treaty between the Iroquois and New France. William Kidd arrested in Boston. 1701 – William Penn issues his last frame of government. Delaware Colony granted charter, separating it from Pennsylvania. Yale University ...
The 11th Pennsylvania Regiment is authorized. September 20 The Delaware Constitution of 1776 is adopted. [9] The Great Fire of New York begins. [10] September 21 – The Great Fire of New York ends. September 22 – American Revolution: Nathan Hale executed in New York City for espionage. September 28 – The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 ...
The body adopted the Lee Resolution for Independence on July 2, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence two days later, on July 4, 1776, proclaiming that the former colonies were now independent sovereign states. The Second Continental Congress served as the provisional government of the U.S. during most of the Revolutionary War.