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List of events
This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Pennsylvania .
incumbents [ edit ] Colonel Governor :John Penn (1773—1776)
Undated [ edit ] January – Matthew Brown , Presbyterian minister (d. 1853)
January 3 – Thomas Morris , politician (d. 1844)[3]
January 5 – Daniel Dobbins , sailing master in the United States Navy and captain in the United States Revenue Cutter Service (d. 1856)
January 13 – John M. Snowden , journalist, newspaper editor and politician (d. 1842)
January 29 – Enoch Lewis , mathematician (d. 1856)
February 12 – Mary Young Pickersgill , seamstress, and flagmaker (d. 1857)[4]
February 26 – Innis Green , politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1839)[5]
March 5 – Gerard Troost , Dutch-American medical doctor, naturalist, and mineralogist (d. 1850)[6]
March 17 – Joel Abbot , politician (d. 1824)[7]
March 19 – Philemon Beecher , Anglo-American attorney and legislator (d. 1839)[8]
April 3 – Harm Jan Huidekoper , businessman, philanthropist, essayist and lay theologian (d. 1854)
April 25 – James Miller , lawyer, militia officer, farmer, and politician, first governor of Arkansas Territory (d. 1851)
May 9 – Thomas Maguire , American-born Canadian Roman Catholic priest, vicar general and educator (d. 1854)
May 31 – John E. Hamm , American US Army colonel, doctor and politician, diplomat, industrialist, and Marshall of the State of Ohio (d. 1864)
June 1 – George Schetky , composer (d. 1831)
July 10 – Samuel Powell , politician (d. 1841)[9]
July 29 – James McSherry , politician (d. 1849)[10]
August 15 – Rees Hill , army colonel and politician (d. 1852)[11]
September 16 – Langdon Cheves , politician, lawyer and businessman (d. 1857)[12]
October 10 – John Hahn , politician (d. 1823)[13]
October 14 – Samuel Rexford , politician (d. 1857)
October 21 – George Izard , soldier and politician, second governor of Arkansas Territory (d. 1828)
November 10 – Samuel Gross , politician (d. 1839)[14]
December 6 – Theodorick Bland , attorney and statesman (d. 1846)[15]
December 10 – David Marchand , physician, Military personnel and politician (d. 1832)[16]
December 30 – William Drayton , politician, banker, and writer (d. 1846)[17] Undated [ edit ] March 26 – Samuel Ward , farmer, and politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (b. 1725)
June 29 – Richard Wickes , military personnel (b. Unknown)[21] [22] [23]
July 10 – Richard Peters , attorney, Anglican minister, and civil servant (b. 1704)
July 27 – Joseph Wharton , merchant (b. 1707)
October 9 – Philip Vickers Fithian , tutor (b. 1747)[24]
December 29 – Pluggy , Mingo chieftain Undated [ edit ] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ "The Tory Act : published by order of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, Jan. 2, 1776" . Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789 . U.S. Library of Congress. LCCN 90898112 . OCLC 977360698 .^ Hadden 1913, pp. 12–13.
^ "MORRIS, Thomas 1776 – 1844" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ Spencer, Richard Henry (1919). Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland 455 . Retrieved 25 June 2012 . ^ "GREEN, Innis 1776 – 1839" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ Euston, Diane (31 July 2022). "DR. BENOIST TROOST: BEYOND THE STREET WHICH BEARS HIS NAME. . . FOR NOW" . Martin City Telegraph . ^ Biographical Director of the United States Congress, 1774-1989: Bicentennial Edition. United States: Government Printing Office, 1989. ISBN 0-16-006384-1 ^ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 51, page 27 ^ "POWELL, Samuel 1776 – 1841" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ "MCSHERRY, James 1776 – 1849" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ Leckey, Howard L. (1977). The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families ISBN 0-8063-5097-0 . Retrieved 15 November 2019 . ^ "CHEVES, Langdon 1776 – 1857" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ "HAHN, John 1776 – 1823" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ "GROSS, Samuel 1776 – 1839" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ Theodorick Bland at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Federal Judicial Center .^ "MARCHAND, David 1776 – 1832" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ "DRAYTON, William 1776 – 1846" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .^ "BROOM, James Madison ca. 1776 – 1850" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 23 December 2023 .^ http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html Archived 2019-02-03 at the Wayback Machine UPenn Library^ Crew, Spencer (28 July 2011), Clement A. Price (ed.), "How one woman set herself free" , Seven Stories , Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission ^ Johnson, Robert Amandus (2006). Saint Croix 1770–1776: The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes ISBN 9781425970086 ^ Morgan, William James , ed. (1970). Naval Documents of The American Revolution, American Theatre: May 9, 1776 – July 31, 1776 (PDF) . Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Naval History Division/Naval Historical Center , Department of the Navy . pp. 882–884.^ Clark, William Bell (1938). Gallant John Barry, 1745–1803: The Story of a Naval Hero of Two Wars ^ Cunningham, John T. (1994). This is New Jersey ISBN 0-8135-2141-6
