Pennamite–Yankee War

Pennamite–Yankee War
Part of American Revolutionary War

Pennsylvania and the competing land claims of other states
Date1769–1799
Location
Susquehanna River
Result Land titles preserved and transferred to Pennsylvania as part of larger legal settlement
Belligerents
Pennsylvania Pennamites Connecticut Yankees
Commanders and leaders
Captain Christie John Franklin
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
1 killed 2 killed

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 (Yankees) and Pennsylvania (Pennamites) disputed for control of the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. Both colonies and later states declared that their original land grants gave them control of this territory. In 1799, the Wyoming Valley became part of Pennsylvania, ending the conflict.

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