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    Adams, Armstrong, Bradford, Butler, Crawford, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Luzerne, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Potter, Sullivan, Warren...
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    Congress". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 19 (2). University of Pennsylvania Press: 197–207. JSTOR 20083644. Greene, Jack P. (March...
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  • Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner) Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel...
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    Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1843831372. Greene, Francis Vinton (1913). General Greene. New York : D. Appleton & Co. Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J.R. (2008) [2000]...
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    sword. On this trip he also met Comte de Volney. One account of the trip states that on his way to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to meet the president, Little...
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    William Alexander, Lord Stirling (category People from Bernards Township, New Jersey)
    began building his grand estate in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey, and upon its completion, sold his home in New York and moved...
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    Bedford County Townships". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2014. "A Brief History of Greene County and Its Courts"...
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    2013. Jones, Charles Colcock (1885). Sepulture of Major General Nathanael Greene : and of Brig. Gen. Count Casimir Pulaski. Collins, David R. (1997). Hero...
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    appoints a "Committee of Five", Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and...
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    September. Around sixteen thousand soldiers under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau quickly converged there and defeated Cornwallis in the siege...
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    Détroit, after Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, Secretary of State of the Navy under Louis XIV. Sainte-Anne-de-Détroit was founded on July 26 and...
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    A school is founded in Washington County, Pennsylvania that will later be known as Washington & Jefferson College. December 12 – American Revolutionary...
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    1740s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Augustine, Florida. January 13 – Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township. February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain...
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    Elizabeth Willing Powel (category People from colonial Pennsylvania)
    political treatise written by the French nobleman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. Her letter reads in part: The Antifederalist would use [retirement]...
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