Adoption of Federal Constitution[Sept. 17]
Allummapees, King of Delaware Indians[Aug. 12]
American, John Penn, the[Jan. 29]
Antes, Lt. Col. John Henry[May 13]
Antes, Pious Henry[Jan. 12]
Anti-Masonic Investigation[Dec. 4]
Anti-Masonic Outbreak in Pennsylvania[Aug. 18]
Anti-Masonic Period Terminates[Dec. 4]
Armed Force to Forks of Ohio[Feb. 17]
Armstrong, Captain John, Murdered[April 9]
Armstrong Destroys Kittanning[Sept. 8]
Arnold Arrested, General Benedict[Feb. 3]
Asylum, the French Settlement[Dec. 20]
Attempted Slaughter of Indians at Wichetunk[Oct. 12]
Attempt to Navigate Susquehanna Fails[April 27]
Baldwin, Matthias[Jan. 8]
Bank, First in America[Dec. 31]
Bank of North America[Jan. 7]
Bard Family Captured by Indians[April 13]
Bartram, John[March 23]
Battle of Brandywine[Sept. 11]
Battle of Bushy Run[Aug. 6]
Battle of Fallen Timbers[Aug. 20]
Battle of Germantown[Oct. 4]
Battle of Gettysburg[July 1] [and 2]
Battle of the Kegs[Jan. 5]
Battle of Lake Erie[Sept. 10]
Battle of Minisinks[July 22]
Battle of Monongahela[July 9]
Battle of Muncy Hills[Aug. 26]
Battle of Trenton[Dec. 26]
Beatty, Rev. Charles, and Old Log College[Jan. 22]
Bedford County Erected[March 9]
Beissel, John Conrad[July 6]
Bell for State House[June 2]
Berks County Outrages[Nov. 14]
Bethlehem as Base Hospital in Revolution[March 27]
Bi-centennial[Oct. 21]
Bills of Credit Put State on Paper Money Basis[March 2]
Binns, John[Nov. 16]
Binns, John[June 24]
Binns, John, Fights Duel with Samuel Stewart[Dec. 14]
Black Boys[Nov. 26]
Bloody Saturday[Aug. 14]
Bloody Election[Oct. 1]
Boone, Daniel[Oct. 22]
Border Troubles Reach Provincial Authorities[May 14]
Border Troubles with Maryland[May 25]
Border Troubles with Thomas Cresap[Nov. 23]
Boundary Disputes Settled[Nov. 5]
Boundary Dispute with Maryland[May 10]
Boundary Dispute with Virginia[Sept. 23]
Bounty for Indian Scalps[April 14]
Bouquet Defeats Indians at Bushy Run[Aug. 6]
Bouquet Relieves Fort Pitt[Aug. 10]
Boyd, Captain John[Feb. 22]
Boyd, Lieutenant Thomas Murdered[Sept. 13]
Braddock’s Defeat[July 9]
Braddock’s Road Begun[May 6]
Braddock’s Troops Arrive[Feb. 20]
Brady, Captain James, Killed[Aug. 8]
Brady, Captain John[April 11]
British and Indians Attack and Destroy Fort Freeland[July 28]
British Destroy Indian Towns[Aug. 25]
British Evacuate Philadelphia[June 17]
British Invest Philadelphia[Sept. 26]
Brodhead Arrives at Fort Pitt to Fight Indians[Mar. 5]
Broadhead Destroys Coshocton[April 20]
Brodhead Makes Indian Raid[Aug. 11]
Brown, General Jacob[Feb. 24]
Brulé, Etienne[Oct. 24]
Buchanan, President James[April 23]
Buck Shot War[Dec. 5]
Bucks County Homes Headquarters for Washington and Staff[Dec. 8]
Bull, Ole[Feb. 5]
Bull, Gen John[June 1]; [Aug. 9]
Cameron, Colonel James[July 21]
Cameron Defeats Forney for Senate[Jan. 13]
Cammerhoff, Bishop John Christopher[Jan. 6]
Camp Curtin[April 18]
Canal Lottery, Union[April 17]
Canals Projected in Great Meeting[Oct. 20]
Canal System Started[Feb. 19]
Capitol, Burning of[Feb. 2]
Capitol, New State[Jan. 2]
Capital, Removed to Harrisburg[Feb. 21]
Capture of Timothy Pickering[June 26]
Carlisle Indian School[July 31]
Carlisle Raided by Rebels[June 27]
Carey, Matthew[Sept. 16]
Chambers-Rieger Duel[May 11]
Chambersburg Sacked and Burned by Rebels[July 30]
Charter for City of Pittsburgh[Mar. 18]
Charter for Pennsylvania Received by William Penn[Mar. 4]
Chester County, Deed for[June 25]
Church West of Alleghenies, First[June 20]
Civil Government Established in Pennsylvania[Aug. 3]
Clapham Builds Fort Halifax[June 7]
Clapham Family Murdered by Indians[May 28]
Clark Drafts Troops for Detroit Expedition[Mar. 3]
Coal First Burned in a Grate[Feb. 11]
Cochran, Dr. John[Sept. 1]
Cooke & Co. Fail, Jay[Sept. 18]
Cooper Shop and Union Saloon Restaurants[May 27]
Commissioners Appointed to Purchase Indian Lands[Feb. 29]
Conestoga Indians Killed by Paxtang Boys[Dec. 27]
Confederate Raids into Pennsylvania[Oct. 10]
Congress Threatened by Mob of Soldiers[June 21]
Constitutional Convention of 1790[Nov. 21]
Constitution of 1790[March 24]; [Sept. 2]
Constitution of United States Adopted[Sept. 17]
Continental Congress First Meets in Philadelphia[Sept. 5]
Conway Cabal[Nov. 28]
Cornerstones Laid for Germantown Academy[April 21]
Council of Censors[Nov. 13]
Cornwallis Defeats Americans at Brandywine[Sept. 11]
Counties, First Division into[Feb. 1]
Counties of Pennsylvania Organized[Mar. 10]
Courts, Early Records[Jan. 11]
Court Moved from Upland to Kingsesse[June 8]
Cruel Murder of Colonel William Crawford[June 11] [and 12]
Crawford Burned at Stake by Indians[June 12]
Crawford Captured by Indians, Colonel William[June 11]
Cresap’s Invasion[Nov. 23]
Croghan, George, King of Traders[May 7]
Crooked Billet Massacre[May 1]
Curtin Inaugurated Governor[Jan. 15]
Darrah, Lydia[Dec. 11]
Davy, the Lame Indian[May 30]
Declaration of Independence[July 4]
Deed for Chester County[June 25]
Deed for Province Obtained by Penn[Aug. 31]
Denny Succeeded by Governor Hamilton[Oct. 9]
De Vries Arrives on Delaware[Dec. 6]
Dickinson, John[Nov. 10]
Disberry, Joseph, Thief[Nov. 22]
Doan Brothers, Famous Outlaws[Sept. 24]
Donation Lands[Mar. 12]
Drake Brings in First Oil Well[Aug. 28]
Duel, Binns-Stewart[Dec. 14]
Duel in Which Capt. Stephen Chambers is Killed[May 11]
Dutch Gain Control of Delaware[Sept. 25]
Easton, Indian Conference at[Jan. 27]; [Aug. 7]; [Oct. 8]
Education Established, Public School[Mar. 11]
End of Indian War[Oct. 23]
Ephrata Society[July 6]
Era of Indian Traders[Aug. 12]
Erie County Settled[Feb. 28]
Erie Riots[Dec. 9]
Erie Triangle[April 3]
Etymology of Counties[Aug. 30]
Europeans Explore Waters of Pennsylvania[Aug. 27]
Ewell Leads Raid on Carlisle[June 27]
Excise Laws, First[Mar. 17]
Expedition Against Indians[Nov. 4]; [Nov. 8]
Exploits of David Lewis, the Robber[March 25] [and 26]
Farmer’s Letters, Dickinson’s[Nov. 10]
Federal Constitution Ratified by Pennsylvania[Dec. 12]
Federal Party Broken Up[Nov. 29]
Fell Successfully Burns Anthracite Coal[Feb. 11]
Fires, Early, in Province[Dec. 7]
First Bank in America[Dec. 31]
First Bank in United States[Jan. 7]
First Church in Province[Sept. 4]
First Church West of Allegheny Mountains[June 20]
First Continental Congress[Sept. 5]
First Excise Laws[Mar. 17]
First Fire Company in Province[Dec. 7]
First Forty Settlers Arrive at Wyoming[Feb. 8]
First Governor of Commonwealth[Dec. 21]
First Jury Drawn in Province[Nov. 12]
First Law to Educate Poor Children[Mar. 1]
First Magazine in America[Feb. 13]
First Massacre at Wyoming[Oct. 15]
First Mint in United States[April 2]
First Oil Well in America[Aug. 28]
First Newspaper in Province[Dec. 22]
First Newspaper West of Allegheny Mountains[July 29]
First Northern Camp in Civil War[April 18]
First Paper Mill in America[Feb. 18]
First Permanent Settlement[Sept. 4]
First Post Office[Nov. 27]
First Protest Against Slavery[Feb. 12]
First Settlement of Germantown[Oct. 6]
First Theatrical Performances[April 15]
First Troops to Reach Washington at Cambridge[July 25]
First Union Officer Killed in Civil War[July 21]
Flag, Story of[June 14]
Flight of Tories from Fort Pitt[Mar. 28]
Forbes Invests Fort Duquesne[Nov. 25]
Forney Defeated for U. S. Senate by General Simon Cameron[Jan. 13]
Forrest, Edwin[April 7]
Forrest Home for Actors[April 7]
Fort Augusta[Mar. 29]
Fort Freeland Destroyed by British and Indians[July 28]
Fort Granville Destroyed[Aug. 1]
Fort Halifax[June 7]
Fort Henry[Jan. 25]
Fort Hunter[Jan. 9]
Fort Laurens Attacked by Simon Girty[Feb. 23]
Fort Mifflin Siege Begins[Sept. 27]
Fort Montgomery[Sept. 6]
Fort Patterson[Oct. 2]
Fort Pitt First So Called[Nov. 25]
Forts Built by Colonel Benjamin Franklin[Dec. 29]
Fort Swatara[Oct. 30]
Fort Wilson Attacked by Mob[Oct. 5]
Frame of Government[April 25]
Francis, Colonel Turbutt, Leads Troops to Wyoming[June 22]
Franklin, Benjamin[Jan. 17]
Franklin at Carlisle Conference[Sept. 22]
Franklin at French Court[Dec. 28]
Franklin Builds Chain of Forts[Dec. 29]
Franklin County Erected[Sept. 9]
Franklin Sails for England[Nov. 8]
Free Society of Traders[May 29]
French and Indians Destroy Fort Granville[Aug. 1]
French and Indian War[May 5]
French and Indian War Started[Feb. 20]
French Defeat Major Grant at Fort Duquesne[Sept. 14]
French Plant Leaden Plates[June 15]
Frenchtown, or Asylum Founded by Refugees[Dec. 20]
Frietchie[a]Frietchie], Barbara#Dec. 18:c1218⑲
Fries Rebellion[Mar. 14]
Fulton, Robert[Aug. 17]
Gallatin, Albert[Jan. 20]
Galloway, Joseph[Aug. 29]
Garrison at Fort Pitt Relieved by Colonel Henry Bouquet[Aug. 10]
German Pietists Organize Harmony Society[Feb. 15]
Germantown Academy[April 21]
Gettysburg Address, Lincoln’s[Nov. 19]
Gnadenhutten Destroyed[Nov. 24]
Gnadenhutten (Ohio) Destroyed[Mar. 8]
Gibson’s Lambs[July 16]
Gilbert Family in Indian Captivity[Aug. 22]
Girard, Captain Stephen[May 21]
Girty Attacks Fort Laurens[Feb. 23]
Girty, Simon, Outlaw and Renegade[Jan. 16]
Gordon, Governor Patrick[Aug. 5]
Grant Leaves Philadelphia on World Tour[Dec. 16]
Grant Suffers Defeat at Fort Duquesne[Sept. 14]
Great Runaway[July 5]
Groshong’s, Massacre at Jacob[May 16]
Hambright’s Expedition Against Great Island[Nov. 4]
Hamilton, James, Becomes Governor[Oct. 9]
Hand, General Edward[Sept. 3]
Hand’s Expedition Moves from Fort Pitt[Oct. 19]
Hannastown Burned[July 13]
Hannastown Jail Stormed by Mob[Feb. 7]
Harmony Society[Feb. 15]
Harris, John[Oct. 25]
Hartley’s Expedition Against Indians[Sept. 7]
Hiester, Governor Joseph[Nov. 18]
Hiokatoo, Chief[Nov. 20]
Hospital at Bethlehem, Base[Mar. 27]
Hot Water War[Mar. 14]
Howe Moves Against Philadelphia[July 23]
Impeachment, Supreme Court Judges Yeates, Smith and Shippen[Dec. 13]
Inland Waterways Meeting[Oct. 20]
Inquisition on Free Masonry a Fiasco[Dec. 19]
Inauguration of Governor Curtin[Jan. 15]
Inauguration, Governor Thomas Mifflin[Dec. 21]
Inauguration of Governor Packer[Jan. 19]
Indian Conference at Easton[Jan. 27]; [Aug. 7]; [Oct. 8]
Indian Conference at Harris Ferry[April 1]
Indian Conference at Philadelphia[June 30]; [Aug. 16]
Indian Conference at LancasterApr. 1
Indian School at Carlisle[July 31]
Indian Shoots at Washington[Nov. 15]
Indian Traders, Era of[Aug. 12]
Indian War Ends[Oct. 23]
Indians Capture Assemblyman James McKnight[April 26]
Indians Commit Outrages in Berks County[Nov. 14]
Indians Defeated at Fallen Timbers[Aug. 20]
Indians Destroy Widow Smith’s Mill[July 8]
Indians Kill Major John Lee and Family[Aug. 13]
Indians Murder Colonel William Clapham and Family[May 28]
Indians Ravage McDowell Mill
Settlement[Oct. 31]
Indians Slaughtered at Gnadenhutten, Ohio[Mar. 8]
Jail at Hannastown Stormed[Feb. 7]
Jennison, Mary, Capture of[April 5]
Johnstown Flood[May 31]
Journey of Bishop Cammerhoff[Jan. 6]
Judges Yeates, Shippin and Smith Impeached[Dec. 13]
Kegs, Battle of the[Jan. 5]
Keith, Sir William[Nov. 17]
Kelly, Colonel John[April 8]
Kittanning Destroyed by Colonel John Armstrong[Sept. 8]
Know Nothing Party and Pollock[June 5]
Labor Riots After Civil War[Sept. 18]
Lacock, General Abner[April 12]
Lafayette Retreats at Matson’s Ford[May 20]
Leaning Tower, John Mason’s[April 22]
Lee Family, Massacre of[Aug. 13]
Lewis, David, The Robber[March 25] [and 26]
Lewistown Riot[Sept. 12]
Liberty Bell Hung in State House[June 2]
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address[Nov. 19]
Littlehales Murdered by Mollie Maguires[March 15]
Lochry Musters Troops in Westmoreland County[Aug. 2]
Locomotive, First Successful[Jan. 8]
Logan, Hon. James[Oct. 28]
Logan’s Family Slain, Chief[May 24]
Log College, Old[Jan. 22]
Lost Sister of Wyoming[Nov. 2]
Lottery for Union Canal[April 17]
Lower Counties in Turmoil[Nov. 1]
Lumbermen’s War at Williamsport[July 10]
Lycans, Andrew[Mar. 7]
Maclay, Samuel[Jan. 4]
Maclay, Hon. William[July 20]
Magazine, First in America[Feb. 13]
Major Murdered by Mollie Maguires[Nov. 3]
Maguires, Mollie[Jan. 18]; [Feb. 1#]; [March 15]; [May 4]; [Aug. 14]; [Nov. 3]; [Dec. 2]
Mason & Dixon Boundary Line[Dec. 30]
Mason, John, and His Leaning Tower[April 22]
Massacre Along Juniata River[Jan. 28]
Massacre at Conococheague Valley[July 26]
Massacre at Crooked Billet[May 1]
Massacre at French Jacob Groshong’s[May 16]
Massacre at Mahanoy Creek[Oct. 18]
Massacre at Patterson’s Fort[Oct. 2]
Massacre at Penn’s Creek[Oct. 16]
Massacre at Standing Stone[June 19]
Massacre at Williamsport[June 10]
Massacre at Wyoming[July 3]
Massacre of Americans at Paoli[Sept. 20]
McAllister, Colonel Richard[Oct. 7]
McDowell’s Mills, Outrages at[Oct. 31]
McFarlane, Andrew[Feb. 25]
McKee, Captain Thomas[Jan. 24]
McKnight, James, Captured by Indians[April 26]
Meschianza[May 18]
Mexican War[Dec. 15]
Mifflin, General Thomas[Jan. 21]
Mifflin, General Thomas, Inaugurated Governor[Dec. 21]
Military Laws Repealed[Mar. 20]
Militia Organization[Jan. 23]
Minisink Battle[July 22]
Mint, First in United States[April 2]
Minuit, Peter, Arrives[Mar. 30]
Mob Attacks Court House at Lewistown[Sept. 12]
Mob Attacks Home of James Wilson[Oct. 5]
Mob Threatens Congress[June 21]
Monmouth, Battle of[June 28]
Montour, Madame[Sept. 15]
Moravian Church Established when Mob Assails Pastor[July 27]
Moravian Indian Mission at Wyalusing[May 23]
Moravians Massacred at Gnadenhutten[Nov. 24]
Moravians Visit Great Island[July 11]
More, Dr. Nicholas[May 15]
Morris, Robert[Jan. 31]
Mother Northumberland, Old[Mar. 21]
Mott, Lucretia[Jan. 3]
Murder of Sanger and Uren by Mollie Maguires[Feb. 10]
Mutiny in Pennsylvania Line[Jan. 1]
Navy of Pennsylvania[May 8]
Negro Boy Starts Race Riot in Philadelphia[July 12]
Negro School at Nazareth Started by Whitefield[May 3]
Neville, Captain John, Sent to Fort Pitt[July 17]
News of Revolution Reaches Philadelphia[April 24]
New Sweden, Governor Printz Arrives[Feb. 16]
Northumberland County Erected[Mar. 21]
Oil Discovered at Titusville[Aug. 28]
Pack Trains Attacked at Fort Loudoun[Mar. 6]
Paoli Massacre[Sept. 20]
Paper Mill, First in America[Feb. 18]
Paper Money Basis[Mar. 2]
Pastorius and Germans Settle at Germantown[Oct. 6]
Patent for Province Given Duke of York[June 29]
Patriotic Women Feed Soldiers in Civil War[May 27]
Pattison to Burning of Capitol[Feb. 2]
Paxtang Boys Kill Conestoga Indians[Dec. 27]
Pence, Peter[Mar. 22]
Penn, John[Feb. 9]
Penn (John) Succeeds Richard Penn as Governor[Feb. 4]
Penn, John, “The American”[Jan. 29]
Penn Lands in His Province[Oct. 29]
Penn Obtains Deed for Province[Aug. 31]
Penn Receives Charter for Pennsylvania[Mar. 4]
Penn Sails for England[Nov. 1]
Penn, William[Oct. 14]
Penn’s Creek Massacre[Oct. 16]
Penn’s First Wife, John[June 6]
Penn’s Frame of Government[April 25]
Penn’s Second Visit to Province[Dec. 1]
Penn’s Trip Through Pennsylvania[April 6]
Pennamites Driven from Wyoming[Aug. 15]
Pennsylvania in Battle of Monmouth[June 28]
Pennsylvania Line, Mutiny in[Jan. 1]
Pennsylvania Navy in Revolution[May 8]
Pennsylvanian Proposes Railway to Pacific[June 23]
Pennsylvania Railroad Organized[Mar. 31]
Pennsylvania Ratifies Federal Constitution[Dec. 12]
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps[April 19]
Perry Wins Victory on Lake Erie[Sept. 10]
Philadelphia Evacuated by British[June 17]
Philadelphia Invested by British[Sept. 26]
Philadelphia Riots[July 7]
Pickering, Colonel Timothy[June 26]
Pitcher, Molly[Oct. 13]
Pittsburgh Gazette[July 29]
Pittsburgh Receives City Charter[Mar. 18]
Pittsburgh Railroads Fight for Entrance[Jan. 14]
Plot to Kidnap Governor Snyder[Nov. 9]
Pluck, Colonel John, Parades[May 19]
Plunket Defeated by Yankees[Dec. 25]
Plunket Defeats Yankees[Sept. 28]
Plunket’s Expedition Against Yankees[Dec. 24]
Pollock and Know Nothing Party[June 5]
Pontiac’s Conspiracy[May 17]
Post, Christian Frederic[April 29]
Post Office, Pioneer[Nov. 27]
Powder Exploit, Gibson’s[July 16]
Powell, Morgan, Murdered by Mollie Maguires[Dec. 2]
Presqu’ Isle Destroyed by Indians[June 4]
Preston, Margaret Junkin[Mar. 19]
Priestley, Dr. Joseph[Feb. 6]
Printz, Johan[Feb. 16]
Provincial Conference[June 18]
Provincial Convention[July 15]
Provincial Troops March Against Wyoming Settlements[June 22]
Public Education Established[Mar. 11]
Purchase Caused Boundary Dispute[June 9]
Quakers Protest vs. Slavery[Feb. 12]
Quick, Tom[July 19]
Race Riot in Philadelphia[July 12]
Railroads Fight to Enter Pittsburgh[Jan. 14]
Reading Railroad Organized[April 4]
Rebels Raid on Carlisle[June 27]
Rebels Sack and Burn Chambersburg[July 30]
Records of Early Courts[Jan. 11]
Reign of Mollie Maguire Terror Ended[Jan. 18]
Riots at Philadelphia[July 7]
Rittenhouse, William[Feb. 18]
Ross, Betsy[Jan. 30]
Ross, George[July 14]
Ruffians Mob Pastor[July 27]
Runaway, Great[July 5]
Sailors Cause Bloody Election[Oct. 1]
Saturday Evening Post[Aug. 4]
Sawdust War[July 10]
School Law, First[Mar. 1]
Schoolmaster and Pupils Murdered by Indians[July 26]
Second Constitution for State[Mar. 24]
Settlers Massacred at Lycoming Creek[June 10]
Settlers Slay Chief Logan’s Family[May 24]
Shawnee Indians Murder Conestoga Indians[April 28]
Shikellamy, Chief[Dec. 17]
Sholes, Christopher L., Inventor of typewriter[Feb. 14]
Siege at Fort Mifflin Opens[Sept. 27]
Slate Roof House[Jan. 29]
Slavery, Quakers Protest Against[Feb. 12]
Slocum, Francis, Indian Captive[Nov. 2]
Smith, Captain James[Nov. 26]
Smith, Captain John[Sept. 29]; [July 24]
Smith, Colonel Matthew[Mar. 13]; [[Oct. 10]].
Smith’s Mill, Widow[July 8]
Snyder Calls for Troops in War of 1812[Aug. 24]
Snyder Escapes Kidnapping[Nov. 9]
Springettsbury Manor[June 16]
Squaw Campaign[May 2]
Stamp Act[Nov. 7]
Steamboat, Robert Fulton’s[Aug. 17]
Steamboat “Susquehanna” Explodes[April 27]
Stevens, Inquiry About Free Masonry[Dec. 19]
Story of “Singed Cat”[Aug. 4]
Stump, Frederick[Jan. 10]
Sullivan’s Expedition Against Six Nations[May 26]
Sunbury & Erie Railroad[Oct. 17]
Susquehanna Company[Feb. 8]
Susquehanna Company Organized[July 18]
Swedes Come to Delaware River[Mar. 30]
Swedes Make First Permanent Settlement[Sept. 4]
Tedyuskung Annoys Moravians at Bethlehem[Aug. 21]
Tedyuskung at Easton Conference[Oct. 8]
Tedyuskung Defends Himself at Easton Council[Aug. 7]
Tedyuskung, King of Delaware Indians[April 16]
Theatrical Performances, First[April 15]
Thief Joseph Disberry[Nov. 22]
Thompson’s Battalion of Riflemen, Colonel William[July 25]
Threatened War with France[Nov. 11]
Tories Flee from Fort Pitt[Mar. 28]
Tories of Sinking Valley[April 10]
Transit of Venus[June 3]
Treaty of Albany[Oct. 26]
Treaty Ratified by Congress, Wayne’s[Dec. 3]
Trent, Captain William[Feb. 17]
Trimble, James[Jan. 26]
Tulliallan[Tulliallan] or Story of John Penn’s First Wife[June 6]
Turmoil in Lower Counties[Nov. 1]
Typewriter, Sholes Invents the[Feb. 14]
Unholy Alliance with Indians[Sept. 21]
Upland Changed to Chester[Oct. 29]
Venus, Observation of Transit of[June 3]
Veterans French and Indian War Organize[April 30]
Vincent, Bishop John Heyl[May 9]
Walking Purchase[Sept. 19]
War of 1812[Aug. 24]
War of 1812 Begun[May 12]
Washington and Whisky Insurrection[Sept. 30]
Washington at Logstown[Nov. 30]
Washington Leads Troops in Whisky Insurrections[Oct. 3]
Washington Shot at by Indians[Nov. 15]
Washington to Command Troops in War with France[Nov. 11]
Washington Uses Bucks County Homes for Headquarters[Dec. 8]
Washington, Lady Martha[May 22]
Waters of State Explored by Europeans[Aug. 27]
Watson, John Fanning[Dec. 23]
Wayne Defeats Indians[Dec. 3]
Wayne Defeats Indians at Fallen Timbers[Aug. 20]
Weiser, Conrad[June 13]
Westmoreland County Erected[Feb. 26]
Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania[Sept. 30]
Whitefield Starts Negro School at Nazareth[May 3]
White Woman of Genesee[April 5]
Wiconisco Valley Suffers Indian Attack[Mar. 7]
Wilmot, David[Mar. 16]
Wilson, Alexander, The Ornithologist[Aug. 23]
Wilson’s Indian Mission[Oct. 27]
Witchcraft in Pennsylvania[Feb. 27]
Wolf, Governor George and Public Education[Mar. 11]
Wyalusing Indian Mission[May 23]
Wyoming, First Massacre[Oct. 15]
Wyoming Massacre[July 3]
Yankees Drive Pennamites from Wyoming[Aug. 15]
Yankees Humiliatingly Defeat Colonel
Plunket[Dec. 25]
Yellow Fever Scourges[Nov. 6]
York County in Revolution[Aug. 19]
York, Duke of[June 29]
Yost Murdered by Mollie Maguires[May 4]
Zinzindorf, Count Nicholas[Dec. 10]

Mutiny Broke Out in Pennsylvania Line,
January 1, 1781

As the year 1780 drew to a close there were warm disputes in the Pennsylvania regiments as to the terms on which the men had been enlisted. This led to such a condition by New Year’s Day, 1781, that there broke out in the encampment at Morristown, N. J., a mutiny among the soldiers that required the best efforts of Congress, the Government of Pennsylvania and the officers of the army to subdue.

New Year’s Day being a day of customary festivity, an extra proportion of rum was served to the soldiers. This, together with what they were able to purchase, was sufficient to influence the minds of the men, already predisposed by a mixture of real and imaginary injuries, to break forth into outrage and disorder.

The Pennsylvania Line comprised 2500 troops, almost two-thirds of the Continental Army, the soldiers from the other colonies having, in the main, gone home. The officers maintained that at least a quarter part of the soldiers had enlisted for three years and the war. This seems to have been the fact, but the soldiers, distressed and disgusted for want of pay and clothing, and seeing the large bounties paid to those who re-enlisted, declared that the enlistment was for three years or the war.

As the three years had now expired, they demanded their discharges. They were refused, and on January 1, 1781, the whole line, 1300 in number, broke out into open revolt. An officer attempting to restrain them was killed and several others were wounded.

Under the leadership of a board of sergeants, the men marched toward Princeton, with the avowed purpose of going to Philadelphia to demand of Congress a fulfillment of their many promises.

General “Mad” Anthony Wayne was in command of these troops, and was much beloved by them. By threats and persuasions he tried to bring them back to duty until their real grievances could be redressed. They would not listen to him; and when he cocked his pistol, in a menacing manner, they presented their bayonets to his breast, saying:

“We respect and love you; you have often led us into the line of battle; but we are no longer under your command. We warn you to be on your guard. If you fire your pistol or attempt to enforce your commands, we shall put you instantly to death.”