From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania.

He then served in the house of Pennsylvania General Assembly ( 1785 – 1788 ).

He was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on November 5, 1788 he was elected President of the Council, replacing Benjamin Franklin.

A Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur baptismal certificate from 1788

From 1781 until 1788, much of what had been claimed as part of Yohogania County, Virginia, was administered as a part of the newly created Washington County, Pennsylvania.

St. Clair was one of the original townships of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania at the county's creation in 1788.

Pioneers building the flatboat, Adventure Galley, at Sumrill ’ s Ferry ( present-day West Newton, Pennsylvania ) during March 1788

Later in 1788, they were able to extinguish Indian title to all lands east of the Genesee River between Lake Ontario and the Pennsylvania border, as well as a tract by paralleling the west bank of the Genesee River (" The Mill Yard Tract "), totalling some.

David Rittenhouse Porter ( October 31, 1788 – August 6, 1867 ) was the ninth Governor of Pennsylvania.

Porter, the first governor under the State Constitution of 1838 was born October 31, 1788, near Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania spending his boyhood at Selma Mansion, a home built by his father in 1794.

Francis Rawn Shunk ( 7 August 1788 – 20 July 1848 ) was the tenth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848.

Ziba Hoyt was born in Connecticut on September 1788 died in December 1853 Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

* Lemuel Paynter ( 1788 – 1863 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

In 1787 and 1788 he was sent as a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress.

* John Davis ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1788 – 1878 ), U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania

His law practice was slow and on the side he edited the Pennsylvania Herald from 1787 to 1788 and the Columbian Magazine from 1787 to 1789.

He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801.

Returning to America, he represented Pennsylvania as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788.

Allegheny City ( 1788 – 1907 ) was a Pennsylvania municipality located on the north side of the junction of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, across from downtown Pittsburgh.

The Federal government, in turn, sold this land to Pennsylvania in 1788.

William Paul Quinn ( 10 April 1788 – 3 February 1873 ) was the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, an independent black denomination founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816.

Prigg and his lawyer argued that the 1788 and 1826 Pennsylvania laws were unconstitutional:

As a consequence, they argued, the 1788 Pennsylvania law, in all its provisions applicable to this case, should be voided.

He was a member of the New York State Senate ( Southern District ) from 1788 to 1790, but vacated his seat after the Legislature enacted in January 1790 a law that made it impossible to be a member of Congress and the State Legislature at the same time.

By an act of the Massachusetts Legislature approved April 1, 1788, it was provided that " this Commonwealth doth hereby agree, to grant, sell & convey to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, for a purchase price of $ 1, 000, 000, payable in three equal annual installments all the Right, Title & Demand, which the said Commonwealth has in & to the said ' Western Territory ' ceded to it by the Treaty of Hartford.

By act of the Massachusetts Legislature, approved April 1, 1788, it was provided that ' this Commonwealth doth hereby agree, to grant, sell & convey ' to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, for a purchase price was $ 1, 000, 000, payable in three equal annual installments of certain Massachusetts securities then worth about 20 cents on the dollar.

He served in the first independent North Carolina Legislature from 1777 to 1778, and was presiding Judge of Guilford County from 1781 to 1788.

Umbrage remained until the Pennsylvania Legislature confirmed the various land titles in 1788.

In 1788, four districts were created:

On 8 July 1788 he became colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and on 30 August 1788 he was created Baron Amherst of Montreal with a special provision that would allow this title to pass to his nephew ( as Amherst was childless, the Holmesdale title became extinct upon his death ).

When Virginia created Kanawha County in 1788, Boone was appointed lieutenant colonel of the county militia.

Allegheny County was officially created on September 24, 1788, from parts of Washington and Westmoreland counties.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

Bryan County was created on December 19, 1793, named after Jonathan Bryan ( 1708 – 1788 ), an American Revolutionary War partisan.

The town is one of the original towns in the county and was created in 1788 from a patent dated 1761.

In 1788, an act was passed organizing towns in place of districts and Stillwater was created from the Saratoga District, making four towns in what would become Saratoga County.

In 1788, Buffon's successor at the position of Intendant of the Royal Garden, Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d ' Angiviller, created a position for Lamarck, with a yearly salary of 1, 000 francs, as the keeper of the herbarium of the Royal Garden.

In 1782, he was created Viscount Howe of Langar, and, in 1788, Baron and Earl Howe.

The town of Kinderhook was founded in 1788 from a previously created district ( 1772 ), but lost substantial territory to form part of the town of Chatham in 1775.

The town of Warwick was created in 1788.

As a town formed in Albany County in 1788, it became the founding town of the newly created Schoharie County upon the county's formation in 1795.

In 1786 he returned to Paris, and in 1788 brought out the Venetus A of Homer, which created a sensation in the learned world.

* The Lord Amherst, who captured Montreal during the French and Indian War, was created Baron Amherst, of Montreal in the County of Kent in 1788.

The Honourable Joseph Yorke, third son of the first Earl, was a soldier, politician and diplomat and was created Baron Dover in 1788.

Harris had already been created Baron Malmesbury, of Malmesbury in the County of Wiltshire, in 1788, and was made Viscount FitzHarris, of Hurn Court in the County of Southampton, at the same time he was given the earldom.

* Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe ( 1726 – 1799 ) ( created Baron Howe and Earl Howe in 1788 )

It was created in 1788 for the lawyer and judge Sir Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baronet.

It was created in 1788 for John Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, with remainder to his kinsman Richard Neville-Aldworth.

In 1788 the Braybrooke title was revived when Griffin was created Baron Braybrooke.