"Yankee Pennamite Wars: The Connecticut-Pennsylvanian... " Topic

…conflict, 1769-1794.

"The Yankee-Pennamite Wars, 1769-1794, were a series of American colonial conflicts that took place before, during, and after the American Revolution, between Connecticut settlers and their militias, and the armed forces and militias of the Pennsylvania colonists in what is today the Wyoming and Luzerne counties of the US state of Pennsylvania. The Connecticut Colonies' land claims in Eastern Pennsylvania dated back to 1662 when England's newly restored King Charles II (b.1630-1685) granted a Royal charter to settle the Wyoming Valley to the Connecticut ‘Yankees', originally a pejorative Dutch name for Englishman in North America.

In 1681 King Charles granted a similar charter to William Penn who had become the founder of the new colony. This was to be an event which sowed the seeds for a long and relatively bloody conflict for the rights and land deeds to settle what became Western Pennsylvania. Other important preceding conflicts or events in relation to the War in the Wyoming Valley included the First Anglo Dutch War 1652-1654, the massacre of Dutch Mennonites in Delaware 1664-1665, and King Philips War in New England, fought from 1675-1678.

The Yankee-Pennamite Wars truly began in the very early 1750's in a frantic climate of land grabs as speculators, pioneers, and settlers arrived in Western Pennsylvania to claim land. Elsewhere throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, English and American colonials flocked to the forests of the region to claim plots of untouched land. These settlers were of both Yankee, those from Connecticut or New York heritage and from Pennsylvania (or Pennamite from the English Penn family who ruled the Pennsylvania colony) stock…"

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Armand

Those low down, dirty Nutmeg Staters had the audacity, the AUDACITY, I tell you… to declare their 24th Regiment of Militia as being from the wilds of what is now bits of Luzerne County…

I can tell The OFM shakes in horror every time he hears that he may have to bow down to some Governor in far off Hartford, were it not for those brave lads from his neck of the Penn's Woods.

Eric

Waiting John comments! (smile)

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Armand

I have been to Connecticut once and found the people surprisingly civil, despite their having been thrown out of Northeastern Pennsylvania more than 200 years ago.
Hmmmm…..
Maybe that is why they were so friendly.

Every time the OFM games the Wyoming massacre he secretly cheers for the Tories and Indians. They are 4-1.

That's better than the Hartford Whalers ever were…

The Forever .500 Whalers….

Eric