Category:People from colonial Pennsylvania
Appearance
This category includes people who were notable in the Province of Pennsylvania prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765, such as people involved in the French and Indian War, or someone who'd founded towns earlier like John Wright. People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Pennsylvania in the American Revolution, instead of this category.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "People from colonial Pennsylvania"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 493 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Benjamin Abbott
- James Abercrombie (priest)
- Alexander Addison (judge)
- John Adlum
- Thomas Affleck (cabinetmaker)
- Jane Aitken
- John Aitken (music publisher)
- Robert Aitken (publisher)
- Cosmo Alexander
- Francis Alison
- Richard Allen (bishop)
- William Allen (loyalist)
- Family of William Allen (loyalist)
- Joseph Anderson (Tennessee politician)
- Patrick Anderson (assemblyman)
- Samuel Anderson (Pennsylvania politician)
- Robert Andrews (clergyman)
- James Armstrong (Pennsylvania politician)
- John Armstrong Sr.
- John Armstrong Jr.
- Samuel John Atlee
- William Augustus Atlee
B
- Benjamin Franklin Bache
- Richard Bache
- Sarah Franklin Bache
- William Bainbridge
- Hilary Baker
- John Barclay (mayor)
- Thomas Barclay (diplomat)
- Samuel Bard (physician)
- John Barker (Philadelphia)
- John Barry (naval officer)
- John Bartram
- William Bartram
- John Bayard
- George M. Bedinger
- Conrad Beissel
- Jacob Beltzhoover
- Anthony Benezet
- Caleb P. Bennett
- Jesse Bennett
- Samuel D. Betzner
- Clement Biddle
- Edward Biddle
- Nicholas Biddle (naval officer)
- Owen Biddle Sr.
- Owen Biddle Jr.
- William Biles
- Ann Willing Bingham
- William Bingham
- John Phillip Boehm
- Thomas Bond (American physician)
- Daniel Boone
- Squire Boone
- Elias Boudinot
- Thomas Boude
- Bathsheba Bowers
- Rhoda Boyd
- Andrew Bradford
- William Bradford (printer, born 1663)
- Samuel Brady
- James Brenton (soldier)
- David Brooks (American politician)
- Charles Brockden Brown
- Jacob Brown (general)
- Thomas Brown (businessman)
- George Bryan
- Morgan Bryan
- Samuel Bryan
- Edward Burd
- James Burd
- Solomon Bush
- Cyrus Bustill
- Richard Butler (general)
- Simon Butler
- Thomas Butler (soldier)
C
- Lambert Cadwalader (representative)
- Thomas Cadwalader
- William Caldwell (ranger)
- James T. Callender
- Mary Campbell (colonial settler)
- John Canon
- Laurentius Carels
- Mathew Carey
- Daniel Carmick
- Samuel Carpenter
- Samuel Carrick
- John Carson (physician)
- William Carter (Philadelphia)
- John Cassin (naval officer)
- Peter Chartier
- Benjamin Chew
- Charles Cist (printer)
- Matthew Clarkson (mayor)
- Joseph Clay
- James Claypoole
- William Clayton (colonist)
- Mary Willing Clymer
- Robert Coleman (industrialist)
- William Coleman (judge)
- Zachariah Connell
- Frederick Conrad
- Gustavus Conyngham
- Joseph Cooper (pirate)
- William Cooper (judge)
- Margaret Corbin
- Tench Coxe
- Isaac Craig
- William Crispin
- George Croghan
- Edward Crouch
- Custaloga
- Edward Cutbush
D
- William Darke
- Lydia Darragh
- Franklin Davenport
- William Lee Davidson
- Esther de Berdt Reed
- Ebenezer Denny
- James Derham
- William Dering
- Joseph Desha
- Jonathan Dickinson
- Mary Norris Dickinson
- Christopher Dock
- Thaddeus Dod
- Jacob Duché
- Jacob Duché Sr.
- George Duffield (minister, born 1732)
- James Duncan (Pennsylvania politician)
- John Dunlap
- Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
- John Durang
E
F
- Justus Falckner
- Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
- John Findlay (U.S. politician)
- William Findlay (governor)
- Samuel Finley
- William Fishbourn
- Joshua Fisher (merchant)
- Sarah Logan Fisher
- Thomas Fitzsimons
- Thomas Forrest (politician)
- James Forten
- Tench Francis Jr.
- Tench Francis Sr.
- Turbutt Francis
- Benjamin Franklin
- Francis Folger Franklin
- William Franklin
- David Franks (loyalist)
- Rebecca Franks
- John Fraser (frontiersman)
- Samuel Fraunces
- Persifor Frazer
- Hannah Freeman
- Robert Fulton
G
- Thomas Gaddis
- Joseph Galloway
- Gelelemend
- Samuel Gettys
- Stephen Girard
- James Girty
- Simon Girty
- Hugh Glasgow
- Thomas Godfrey (inventor)
- Thomas Godfrey (writer)
- Jonathan Gostelowe
- Derick op den Graeff
- Herman Isacks op den Graeff
- George Gray (Pennsylvania politician)
- Anne Catherine Hoof Green
- Andrew Gregg
- Isaac Griffin
- Hannah Griffitts
- Thomas Griffitts
- Grubb Family Iron Dynasty
- Curtis Grubb
- Henry Bates Grubb
- John Grubb
- Peter Grubb (mason)
- Peter Grubb Jr.
- John Guest (judge)
- Guyasuta