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    circulated a pamphlet, "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania," his vision for what he called a "Public Academy of Philadelphia". On...
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    Franklin's 1749 founding Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pensilvania Archived May 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (page images) Archived October...
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    printed his own pamphlet, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania.: 30  He was appointed president of the Academy on November 13, 1749;...
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  • part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Repository: Library of Congress Geography...
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  • off Faro, Portugal. Annabella  Great Britain The ship sank in the Saint Lawrence River. Charlotte  Ireland The ship was driven ashore on the South of the...
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  • Louth. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Newry, County Antrim. Pensilvania Packet  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore in the Elbe. She was...
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    Pennsylvania Committee of Safety; J. Severns, 1851. Evans, Lewis, "A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware counties," (1749) "Celeron...
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  • hands at a reasonable price and tho' the order mentions families from Pensilvania [sic], yet families from Ireland will do as well.": 2  On 22 August,...
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    Kuskusky (category Geography of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania)
    Journal of Christian Frederick Post; On a Message from the Governor of Pensilvania to the Indians on the Ohio, London: Printed for J. Wilkie 1759 Christian...
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    Salisbury-Court, Fleetstreet. p. 1. anon. (13 August 1730). "Philadelphia in Pensilvania, June 18". Daily Journal. No. 2996. London: Printed by J. Purser in Salisbury-Court...
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    up St. Lawrence River Maj. Gen. Schuyler receives word that army's attack on British at Trois-Rivières has been defeated, and it must retreat to St.-Jean...
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    Pepper, William (ed.). Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania. University of Pennsylvania Press. —— (1836–1840). Sparks, Jared (ed...
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