This county included six current counties, and by repeated splitting, new ones were generated: Frederick from Prince George's in 1748 ; and Montgomery and Washington from Frederick in 1776.

Monongalia County was formed in 1776 when Virginia's remote District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio, Yohogania and Monongalia, all named for their most prominent rivers.

In 1771 Governor Tryon called out 5 militiamen of Tryon County to help put down the Regulator movement, a protest against corrupt county officials and excessive taxes, centered in counties to the northeast of Tryon. Although the colony was officially at peace with the Indians from 1763 to 1776, the Tryon County frontier was the target of occasional raids, usually by Cherokee, but sometimes by Shawnee and other faraway tribes.

The more radical Swinney's Birmingham Chronicle, which caused controversy in 1771 by serialising Voltaire's Thoughts on Religion, boasted in 1776 that it circulated across nine counties and was " filed by coffeehouses in practically every centre of any size from Edinburgh southwards ".

In an apparent effort to strengthen its political control of the area, in November 1776 Virginia reorganized the District of West Augusta into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

From 1682 until 1776 it was part of the Penn proprietorship and was known as the lower counties.

A number of counties in other colonies adopted declarations of grievances against Britain during the period before the Declaration of Independence, including the Mecklenburg Resolves and the Tryon Resolves in 1775 and at least 90 other documents favoring independence in the spring of 1776, but the resolves from the Massachusetts County Conventions in August-October, 1774, were the first to promote across-the-board noncompliance with British governmental authority.

Much as counties were subdivided as the population grew to maintain a government of a size and location both convenient and of citizens with common interests ( at least to some degree ), as Virginia grew, the portions that remained after the subdivision of Kentucky in 1776 became more populated.

Though the Commonwealth of Virginia had lost only ten counties when Kentucky became state in 1776, the number of lost counties ( and cities and towns ) was much greater when West Virginia was subdivided.

In 1776, shortly after the American Revolutionary War began, the Virginia General Assembly formed three new counties from the District of West Augusta, an area of Augusta County, Virginia, which encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.

* VA / PA Boundary Rootsweb article and map concerning the boundary dispute, with official descriptions of the boundaries of the three counties formed from the District of West Augusta in 1776, with a map of the three counties overlaid upon a modern map.

Kentucky County was formed by the Commonwealth of Virginia by dividing Fincastle County into three new counties: Kentucky, Washington, and Montgomery, effective December 31, 1776.

Map of the District of West Augusta and the three counties formed from it in 1776.

In 1776, the District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

John Shaw ( 1776 – 1832 ) worked on Lamorbey Park and was a well known architect in Kent and London, being one of the first designers of semi-detached housing in the capital.

The Viscount holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Cobham, of Cobham in the County of Kent, ( 1718 ), Baron Westcote, of Ballymore in the County of Longford ( 1776 ), and Baron Lyttelton, of Frankley in the County of Worcester ( 1794 ).

Dickinson resigned his commission in December 1776 and went to stay at Poplar Hall in Kent County.

A cricket match in 1776 between men from the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames allegedly ended in bloodshed when guns were seized from the guardroom ; it was reported that an Essex man was shot dead, an elderly invalid was bayonetted and a sergeant was shot trying to quell the riot, but this account is disputed.

In 1776 he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Amherst, of Holmesdale in the County of Kent, with normal remainder to heirs male of his body.

He died at Teynham, Kent, 6 January 1776.

White's father, Judge Thomas White, was a member of the colonial Maryland legislature, the Delaware House of Assembly, the Chief Justice of the Kent County Court of Common Pleas, and delegate to the Delaware Constitutional Conventions of 1776 and 1792.

He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Kent County militia in 1776 and served during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1776, Hampshire finally turned the tables on Kent, winning three and losing one of their four fixtures.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

He resigned his crown-appointed positions in 1776 and, on June 22, went on to represent New Jersey in the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

The British evacuated Boston in March 1776 and Washington moved his army to New York City.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

On the night of December 25, 1776, Washington staged a comeback with a surprise attack on a Hessian outpost in western New Jersey.

While his southern commander Greene in 1780 – 81 did use Fabian tactics, Washington did so only in fall 1776 to spring 1777, after losing New York City and seeing much of his army melt away.

* 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey

* 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York for the first time.

* 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

* 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor ( no British records of this attack exist ).

* 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.

Ezra Lee, Continental Army ) tried and failed to sink the British warship HMS Eagle, flagship of the blockaders in New York harbor on September 7, 1776.

The latter scholars cite examples, such as the Declaration of Independence ( describing in 1776 " the Right of the People to ... institute new Government ") and the New Hampshire Constitution ( stating in 1784 that " nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind ").

On June 15, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, which had been governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governor William Franklin was " an enemy to the liberties of this country " and had him arrested.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776 – 1809 ( 1963 ), political science perspective

Prayers for the royal family were said in Trinity Church, New York, for the first time since 1776.

In July 1776, the New York convention appointed a committee, including John Jay, Robert Livingston, George Clinton and Robert Yates, to " devise and carry into execution " measures for " obstructing the channel of Hudson's river, or annoying the navigation of the said River.

After Bunker Hill, Putnam progressed to temporary command of the American forces in New York, while waiting for the arrival on April 13, 1776 of the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General George Washington.