On this day 250 years ago in Wilmington, North Carolina, William Hooper wrote to his friend James Iredell a letter that predicted “the Colonies . . . are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain.” Hooper would become a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Iredell would become one of the original Justices of the Supreme Court.

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