1600s

The GREEN font below is information about the Marianna area. BLACK font is elsewhere.

Before European settlement, the Marianna area was inhabited by at least 3 native populations (a group referred to as the "Monongahela tradition" lived in Washington County between 1000 A.D and the 1630's.The total population of the Monongahela People was never large and peaked during the 1300's). Before village Indians there were mound builders in Marianna.

Each group in the Marianna area had different ways of living, customs, and burials. Burial mounds were found on a couple of Zollarsville farms, as well as West Beth farms.

1600-New Translation of the Bible-by King James. More HERE.

1605-November 5th-Gunpowder Treason Plot. It was a failed assassination attempt to get rid of a protestant and install a catholic. 

1664-Great plaque in London claims 100,000 lives.

1681-The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America, by Quaker William Penn. 

Penn was granted the tract of land by King Charles the second of England on March 4, 1681. The Latin Sylvania meaning "woodlands" was added to Penn to create Pennsylvania (in latin "Penn's Woods.")

1685-February 21st,- King Charles II was buried at West Minister Abbey in London.

1688-In Germantown, Pennsylvania, Quakers denounce slavery in the first recorded formal protest in North America against the enslavement of Africans.

1692-Salem witch trials begin in February and they end just over a year later in May of 1693. Source. Source.

1694-Indian traders and pioneers from colonial settlements came to the Upper Mon at approximately this time.

1696-Quaker religious leaders warn fellow Quakers that if they own slaves they will be expelled from the denomination. palaborhistorysociety

What happened to the missing people of Pennsylvania?

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