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On this day 250 years ago in Virginia, the HMS Fowey and HMS Fincastle returned from the Eastern Shore with provisions and 100 Loyalist recruits for Governor Dunmore’s sick and dwindling army on Gwynn’s Island. Upon learning that Dunmore had been reinforced, Virginia Gen. Andrew Lewis decided to march his men from Williamsburg to assault…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Declaration of Independence was published in the Pennsylvania Evening Post. On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, the Maryland Convention issued this resolution declaring independence from Great Britain: We the delegates of Maryland, in convention assembled, do declare, that the king of Great Britain has…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Irish immigrant John Dunlap completed printing of the first 200 or so copies of the Declaration of Independence. These first copies were in the form of a broadside — essentially a poster to be tacked or pasted onto a wall for the public to read. These initial…
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As almost all Americans know, on this day 250 years ago at what is now called Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. I have been thinking about the Declaration all day today, as well as in the past few days, and over the past year. I want to use…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress debated the draft of the Declaration of Independence that had been prepared by Thomas Jefferson and edited and approved by the other members of the committee (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston), but not having finished . . . Resolved, That…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Statehouse (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress again voted on the Resolution for Independence introduced by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. The Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Delaware delegations all changed their votes to support Independence, so the Congress by the unanimous vote of all delegations…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress debated and held a preliminary vote on Richard Henry Lee’s proposed resolution for Independence. Nine states voted for Independence: Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina and Georgia. The Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Delaware delegations were split, but the…
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On this day 250 years ago, the people of Maryland were reading the following declaration that had been adopted in Charles County earlier in the month: We, the subscribers, freemen of Charles County, in the Province of Maryland, taking into our most serious consideration the present state of the unhappy dispute between Great Britain and the United Colonies, and the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia Convention adopted a Constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Constitution also incorporated the Declaration of Rights that had been previously adopted by the Convention on June 12. Also on this day the Convention elected Patrick Henry as independent Virginia’s first governor. Sources: https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/educator-resources/online-classroom/stc/entries/first-virginia-constitution-june-29-1776;…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson delivered to Charles Thomson, the Secretary of the Continental Congress, the draft of the Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human Events it becomes necessary for a People to advance from that Subordination, in which they have hitherto remained and to assume among…
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