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Term: Pennsylvania

Occupied mainly by Algonquian, with Iroquoian-speakers in E, when English, Dutch and Swedes settled here 17th cen.; haven for religious dissenters founded by W Penn in 1682; suffered battles in French and Indian wars; was strongly pro-Revolution and pro-Union.

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1856 - 1930, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, 1780 - 1859, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, 1829 - 1914, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, 1834 - 1915, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, 1855 - 1950, Philadelphia
Middletown, Pennsylvania, 1833 - 1918, Lancaster, Pennsylvania