The Pennamite–Yankee Wars or Yankee–Pennamite Wars were a series of conflicts consisting of the First Pennamite War (1769–1770), the Second Pennamite War (1774), and the Third Pennamite War (1784), in which settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania (Pennamites) disputed for control of the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the ...

The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the name of a western state. Settlers from both Pennsylvania and Connecticut claimed ownership of 23 miles along the Susquehanna River.

Jul 25, 2022 · In 1753, amidst a flurry of land speculation and westward expansion that captivated the imagination of American colonists, Connecticut settlers formed the Susquehanna Company for the purposes of developing the Wyoming Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Dec 24, 2021 · This map from 1774 shows Pennsylvania and illustrates a little-known land dispute between the Pennsylvania and Connecticut colonies that led to the Pennamite-Yankee wars.

The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.

The community survived the Pennamite-Yankee Wars, fought (1769–84) between Pennsylvania and Connecticut settlers over rival land claims, and conflicts with the Tories and Iroquois Indians, which culminated in the slaughter of settlers in the Wyoming Massacre (July 3, 1778) during the American Revolution.

The American Revolution wasn't the only war fought in the late 18th-century United States-a decades-long conflict pitted Pennsylvania and Connecticut settlers against each other in the Yankee-Pennamite War.

Jan 6, 2002 · The far-reaching dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylvania over their conflicting charter claims was one that Jefferson became acquainted with on first entering Congress in 1775 (see Vol. 1: 248). The reports that he drew up eight years later came at a climactic moment of the controversy.

Feb 20, 2014 · When Connecticut sent forth their newly established Susquehanna Company to survey the tract of land for the creation a new settlement in 1753, they discovered that Pennsylvania settlers (who would become known as Pennamites) had already established small communities along the Susquehanna River and throughout the Valley.

Jan 1, 2002 · These notes on the protracted dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut over the Wyoming Valley are arbitrarily assigned to this date because they appear to be TJ’s first rough jottings on a controversy with which he was first concerned when appointed on this day to a committee “to take into consideration the disputes between the people ...