1776 in Pennsylvania

This is a list of events in the year 1776 in Pennsylvania. == Incumbents == Colonel Governor: John Penn (1773–1776) == Events == January 2 – The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph. 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. August 23 – The 12th Pennsylvania Regiment is raised at Sudbury. 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 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 – Matthew Brown, Presbyterian minister (d. 1853) January 3 – Thomas Morris, politician (d. 1844) 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) February 26 – Innis Green, politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1839) March 5 – Gerard Troost, Dutch-American medical doctor, naturalist, and mineralogist (d. 1850) March 17 – Joel Abbot, politician (d. 1824) March 19 – Philemon Beecher, Anglo-American attorney and legislator (d. 1839) 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) July 29 – James McSherry, politician (d. 1849) August 15 – Rees Hill, army colonel and politician (d. 1852) September 16 – Langdon Cheves, politician, lawyer and businessman (d. 1857) October 10 – John Hahn, politician (d. 1823) 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) December 6 – Theodorick Bland, attorney and statesman (d. 1846) December 10 – David Marchand, physician, Military personnel and politician (d. 1832) December 30 – William Drayton, politician, banker, and writer (d. 1846) === Undated === James M. Broom, lawyer and politician (d. 1850) 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) 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) == Deaths == 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) 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) December 29 – Pluggy, Mingo chieftain === Undated === Hetty Benbridge, painter (b. unknown) == See also == 1776 in the United States List of years in Pennsylvania == References ==