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1756 and Pennsylvania
* Robert Hunter Morris ( 1700 – 1764 ), Lieutenant Governor of Colonial Pennsylvania from 1754 to 1756
British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense.
The Gabreil Daveis Tavern House, located at 4th Avenue in Glendora, is a pre-American Revolutionary War tavern that was built in 1756 and for many years served as an inn for boatmen who transported their products to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via nearby Big Timber Creek.
It was a temporary stronghold for the Pennsylvania colonial militia from 1756 to 1757, during the French and Indian War.
While in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1756, West's patron, a gunsmith named William Henry, encouraged him to design a " Death of Socrates " based on an engraving in Charles Rollin's Ancient History ; the resulting composition, which significantly differs from West's source, has been called " the most ambitious and interesting painting produced in colonial America ".
The French and Indian War, which started in 1754 over territorial disputes in what are now western Pennsylvania and upstate New York, had finally turned in the favor of the British in 1758 following a string of defeats in 1756 and 1757.
In response, Lieutenant Colonel John Armstrong led Pennsylvania militiamen on the Kittanning Expedition, which destroyed the village on about 8 September 1756.
The burning of Fort Granville at present-day Lewistown in 1756 prompted Pennsylvania governor John Penn to launch a reprisal against the Lenape and Shawnee led by Lt. Col. John Armstrong, who burned Kittanning in September 1756.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from 1756 to 1774 and served as Speaker of the House from 1766 to 1774.
William Rush ( July 4, 1756 – January 17, 1833 ) was a U. S. neoclassical sculptor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By 1756 he was commissioned a captain in a Pennsylvania regiment, and accompanied Lt. Col. John Armstrong's expedition on the raid of the Indian village of Kittanning in September 1756.
Morton was elected to the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly in 1756.
In July and August 1756, Coulon led a column of French and Native Americans against the frontier of the Province of Pennsylvania.
He was elected to the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly, serving from 1756 to 1760, but then declined further service.
He worked with Benjamin Franklin to establish a public academy, which became the Philadelphia College and then the University of Pennsylvania, and served as President of the school's Board of Regents from 1756 to 1764.
In 1756, Benjamin Franklin used the inn as a recruitment gathering point for the Pennsylvania militia as it prepared to fight Native American uprisings.
Three years later, Andrew married Sarah Brown ( 1756 / 8 – 1827 ) of Newtown, Pennsylvania, with whom he would have ten children, one of which died as a child.

1756 and Governor
Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).
Governor Vaudreuil, who harboured ambitions to become the French commander in chief ( in addition to his role as governor ), acted during the winter of 1756 before those reinforcements arrived.
Lotbinière, who may have won the job of building the fort only because he was related to Governor Vaudreuil, had lost a bid to become Canada's chief engineer to Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, one of the two surveying engineers, in 1756, all of which may explain the highly negative report.
The county is named for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756 – 59.
Once part of Kingston, Sandown was incorporated as a separate town in 1756 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth.
At Governor Barrios ’ suggestion, the Presidio of San Agustin de Ahumada was erected in the summer of 1756 near El Orcoquisac, the spot of Blancpain ’ s capture.
On 2 April 1756, Mi ' kmaq received payment from the Governor of Quebec for 12 British scalps taken at Halifax.
William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.
Moore was active in Jamaica's colonial affairs, and by 1756 he had risen to the rank of Governor.
Trumbull was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1756, to Jonathan Trumbull, who was Governor of Connecticut from 1769 to 1784, and his wife Faith Robinson Trumbull.
On 2 April 1756, Mi ' kmaq received payment from the Governor of Quebec for twelve British scalps taken at Halifax.
Henry Lee III ( January 29, 1756 – March 25, 1818 ) was an early American patriot who served as the ninth Governor of Virginia and as the Virginia Representative to the United States Congress.
The first verified use of the term Canadien to designate the descendants of French settlers in Canada was written in a song composed in 1756 in honor of Governor Vaudreuil after the military victory of Fort Chouaguen.
Benjamin Smith ( January 10, 1756 – January 26, 1826 ) was the 16th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1810 to 1811.
During the French and Indian War, Governor of Nova Scotia Charles Lawrence also offered a reward for male Mi ' kmaq scalps in 1756.
Robert Dinwiddie ( 1693 – 27 July 1770 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia from 1751 to 1758, first under Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, and then, from July 1756 to January 1758, as deputy for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
Admiral of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier GCB ( 13 October 1756 – 19 April 1833 ) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, who served as Governor of Newfoundland, and as a Lord of the Admiralty.
* Governor José de Andonaegui ( 1745 – 1756 ).
* Governor Pedro Antonio de Cevallos ( or Ceballos ) ( 1756 – 1766 ).
Following orders of the Governor of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, in May 1756 French and Indian raiding parties under the command of Louis Coulon de Villiers began harassing the Oswego garrison from a camp on Henderson Bay ( south of present-day Sackett's Harbor, New York ).
Governor Shirley received word in March 1756 that he was to be replaced by John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
Colonel David Collins ( 3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810 ) was the first Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, founded in 1804, which in 1901 became the state of Tasmania in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Enraged still further when the British granted asylum to one Krishnaballav, who had embezzled money from the dewani of Dhaka, Siraj ud-Daula first attacked and captured Cossimbazar, and then Calcutta, which fell after a short siege on 20 June 1756, during which the Governor and many other officials escaped down the Hooghly River, leaving the remainder of the garrison and the Eurasian population of Calcutta to their fate.

1756 and Morris
In 1756, Benjamin Franklin reported to Governeur Morris that he had procured boards and timber from Kern's sawmill.

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