Category:People from colonial Pennsylvania
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 2 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 495 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Alexander Mack
- John Martin Mack
- William Maclay (Pennsylvania politician, born 1737)
- Robert Magaw
- Samuel Magaw
- Margaret Manny
- Abraham Markoe
- Humphry Marshall
- Charles Mason
- Simon Mathews
- Timothy Matlack
- George Matthews (soldier)
- Margaret Mattson
- John McClelland (soldier)
- Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
- John McMillan (missionary)
- John McMullin (silversmith)
- Hugh Mercer
- Hugh Meredith
- Samuel Meredith (American politician)
- Thomas Mifflin
- John Moland
- John Montgomery (Continental Congress)
- Joseph Montgomery
- Andrew Montour
- Margaret Montour
- Milcah Martha Moore
- William Moore (Pennsylvania politician, died 1793)
- William Moraley
- Nicholas More
- Abel Morgan
- George Morgan (merchant)
- John Morgan (physician)
- Humphrey Morrey
- Anthony Morris (I)
- Anthony Morris (II)
- Benjamin Wistar Morris (colonist)
- Cadwalader Morris
- Margaret Hill Morris
- Samuel Morris (soldier)
- John Morton (American politician)
- Stephen Moylan
- Frederick Muhlenberg
- Peter Muhlenberg
- Lindley Murray
- Robert Murray (merchant)
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- Johannes Palm
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
- Robert Patterson (educator)
- John Patton (colonel)
- John Paul (pioneer)
- Benjamin Pawling
- Hannah Callowhill Penn
- John Penn ("the American")
- John Penn (governor)
- John Penn (writer)
- Richard Penn Sr.
- Springett Penn (II)
- Thomas Penn
- William Penn
- William Penn Jr.
- Richard Peters (Continental Congress)
- Richard Peters (priest)
- William Peters (lawyer)
- Jonas Phillips
- Andrew Pickens (congressman)
- Edmund Plowden (colonial governor)
- Clement Plumsted
- William Plumsted
- Thomas Pole
- James Poovey
- Christian Frederick Post
- James Potter (Pennsylvania politician)
- John Potts (Pennsylvanian)
- Zachariah Poulson
- Elizabeth Willing Powel
- Samuel Powel
- Samuel Powell
- Henry C. Pratt (merchant)
- Matthew Pratt
- Samuel Preston (mayor)
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- Robert Ralston
- John Rambo (politician)
- Peter Gunnarsson Rambo
- Benjamin Randolph (cabinetmaker)
- William Rawle
- John Rea (politician)
- John Redman (physician)
- Deborah Read
- Joseph Reed (lawyer)
- Joseph Reed (politician)
- John Reily
- Daniel Reintzel
- John Reister
- Samuel Rhoads
- David Rittenhouse
- William Rittenhouse
- Daniel Roberdeau
- Edward Roberts (mayor)
- Isaiah Robinson
- Betsy Ross
- George Ross (American politician)
- George Ross (Pennsylvania statesman)
- James Ross (Pennsylvania politician)
- John Ross (American patriot)
- John Roth (clergyman)
- John Rowan (Kentucky politician)
- Benjamin Rush
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- Haym Salomon
- Christoph Sauer
- William Savery (cabinetmaker)
- William Savery
- Benjamin Say
- Thomas Scott (American politician)
- Nicholas Scull II
- James Searle
- Jacob Shallus
- Shikellamy
- Shingas
- Edward Shippen
- Edward Shippen IV
- Edward Shippen III
- Peggy Shippen
- William Shippen Sr.
- William Shippen Jr.
- Benjamin Shoemaker
- Samuel Shoemaker (mayor)
- James Smith (frontiersman)
- Jonathan Bayard Smith
- Robert Smith (architect)
- Samuel Smith (Maryland politician)
- Samuel Stanhope Smith
- William Smith (Episcopal priest)
- William Smith (Maryland politician)
- Simon Snyder
- Aaron Solomon
- Christopher Sower (younger)
- Nathan Stanbury
- Henry Stauffer
- Lazarus Stewart
- Walter Stewart (general)
- Henry William Stiegel
- Olof Persson Stille
- Annis Boudinot Stockton
- Christian Strenge
- Peter Stretch
- Thomas Stretch
- Robert Strettell
- John Stuart (priest)
- Sven Svensson
- Philip Syng
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- Moses Tunda Tatamy
- George Taylor (Pennsylvania politician)
- Teedyuscung
- William Tennent
- Richard Thomas (Pennsylvania politician)
- Charles Thomson
- John Thomson (Presbyterian minister)
- Mary Evans Thorne
- William Till
- Levi Todd
- Robert Todd (pioneer)
- William Todd (soldier)
- William Trent
- Philippe Charles Tronson du Coudray
- William Tuckey
- Joseph Turner (loyalist)
- Elisha Tyson