1776 in Pennsylvania
List of events
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This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Pennsylvania.
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Incumbents
- Colonel Governor: John Penn (1773â1776)
Events
- January 2 â The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph.[1]
- June 18â25 â The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference takes place at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia declaring Pennsylvania independent from Great Britain.
- July 4 â Henry Beeson published a plat of quarter-acre plots near his mill in Union now Uniontown.[2]
- August 23 â The 12th Pennsylvania Regiment is raised at Sudbury.
- September 16 â The 11th Pennsylvania Regiment is authorized.
- September 28 â The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 is ratified.
- December 25 â 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 morning.
Undated
- The last colonel governor John Penn resigns.
- The Continental Powder Works at French Creek is constructed in East Pikeland Township.
- Crawford Township is settled.
- The Dobbin House Tavern is established becoming the oldest building in Gettysburg.
Births
- January â Matthew Brown, Presbyterian minister (d. 1853)
- January 3 â Thomas Morris, politician (d. 1844)[3]
- January 5 â Daniel Dobbins, sailing master in the United States Navy and captain in the United States Revenue Cutter Service (d. 1856)
- January 13 â John M. Snowden, journalist, newspaper editor and politician (d. 1842)
- January 29 â Enoch Lewis, mathematician (d. 1856)
- February 12 â Mary Young Pickersgill, seamstress, and flagmaker (d. 1857)[4]
- February 26 â Innis Green, politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1839)[5]
- March 5 â Gerard Troost, Dutch-American medical doctor, naturalist, and mineralogist (d. 1850)[6]
- March 17 â Joel Abbot, politician (d. 1824)[7]
- March 19 â Philemon Beecher, Anglo-American attorney and legislator (d. 1839)[8]
- April 3 â Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, philanthropist, essayist and lay theologian (d. 1854)
- April 25 â James Miller, lawyer, militia officer, farmer, and politician, first governor of Arkansas Territory (d. 1851)
- May 9 â Thomas Maguire, American-born Canadian Roman Catholic priest, vicar general and educator (d. 1854)
- May 31 â John E. Hamm, American US Army colonel, doctor and politician, diplomat, industrialist, and Marshall of the State of Ohio (d. 1864)
- June 1 â George Schetky, composer (d. 1831)
- July 10 â Samuel Powell, politician (d. 1841)[9]
- July 29 â James McSherry, politician (d. 1849)[10]
- August 15 â Rees Hill, army colonel and politician (d. 1852)[11]
- September 16 â Langdon Cheves, politician, lawyer and businessman (d. 1857)[12]
- October 10 â John Hahn, politician (d. 1823)[13]
- October 14 â Samuel Rexford, politician (d. 1857)
- October 21 â George Izard, soldier and politician, second governor of Arkansas Territory (d. 1828)
- November 10 â Samuel Gross, politician (d. 1839)[14]
- December 6 â Theodorick Bland, attorney and statesman (d. 1846)[15]
- December 10 â David Marchand, physician, Military personnel and politician (d. 1832)[16]
- December 30 â William Drayton, politician, banker, and writer (d. 1846)[17]
Undated
- James M. Broom, lawyer and politician (d. 1850)[18]
- William Charles, Scottish-born engraver (d. 1820)
- Jacob Eichholtz, painter (d. 1842)
- William C. Frazer, lawyer and judge (d. 1838)
- Peter Gilles, violoncellist (d. 1839)[19]
- John Gloucester, first African American to become an ordained Presbyterian minister in the United States (d. 1822)
- John Henry, spy and adventurer (d. 1853)
- Hetty Reckless, runaway slave (d. 1888)[20]
Deaths
- March 26 â Samuel Ward, farmer, and politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b. 1725)
- June 29 â Richard Wickes, military personnel (b. Unknown)[21][22][23]
- July 10 â Richard Peters, attorney, Anglican minister, and civil servant (b. 1704)
- July 27 â Joseph Wharton, merchant (b. 1707)
- October 9 â Philip Vickers Fithian, tutor (b. 1747)[24]
- December 29 â Pluggy, Mingo chieftain
Undated
- Hetty Benbridge, painter (b. unknown)