After the Conestoga Massacre, the Paxton Boys marched on this city, which suffered a yellow fever epidemic in 1793.
A mayor of this city wrote a ballad-opera about the Pocahontas story titled The Indian Princess. In this city, the arrest of Charles Naylor provoked a mob to attack the arsenal at St. Philip Neri's Church. Caesar Rodney defended this city's Society of Journeymen Cordwainers in the first American court case concerning a labor strike. In 1854, the state containing this city passed the Act of Consolidation, which merged its territory with the surrounding county, to improve the efficiency of law enforcement in events like the nativist Bible Riots in (*) Kensington and Southwark. As head of the Family Party, George Dallas served as the mayor of this city, where Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1794. After the Conestoga Massacre, the Paxton Boys marched on this city, which suffered a yellow fever epidemic in 1793. For 10 points, name this city that served as the first capital of the United States and hosted the Constitutional Convention in its Independence Hall.
A mayor of this city wrote a ballad-opera about the Pocahontas story titled The Indian Princess.
Philadelphia