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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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On this day 250 years ago in South Carolina, Capt. Samuel Boykin’s company of 25 Catawba Indians skirmished with 20 British regulars across Breach Inlet between Sullivan’s Island and Long Island (now Isle of Palms). Because the inlet was 180 yards wide there were no reported casualties on either side. However, this was only a…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, a committee comprising James Cannon, Thomas Nevil, John Chaloner, Andrew Epley, and William Thorne published a broadside urging Pennsylvania’s Military Associators (i.e., voluntary militia) to select delegates to the upcoming constitutional convention of “honesty, common sense, and a plain understanding, when unbiased by sinister motives” and warned…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia: A Declaration of the deputies of Pensylvania, met in provincial conference, was presented to Congress, and read; expressing their willingness to concur in a vote of Congress, declaring the United Colonies Free and Independent States. Source: Journals…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Delegate Archibald Cary submitted to the Virginia Convention the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia drafted by his committee. The draft was primarily the work of George Mason with input from separate proposals prepared by Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson (and also by John Adams…
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