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Hace 4 días · This series contains essential records relating to one of America's earliest colonies, from 1664 to 1780, including military, tax, marriage, and land records, as well as documents from American history covering the Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Rebellion.
Hace 2 días · Jerrilyn Greene Marston, King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton university press, 1987), 3–4. Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 (New York: Norton, 1991), 281–82.
Hace 2 días · Join us this Sunday, May 12th at 7pm for this will be a pre-recorded discussion with historians J. Michael Moore and Maureen Wiese to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the First Virginia Convention. We will cover this early movement by an American colony to revolution and how it impacted other movements across the colonies.
Hace 2 días · Black Patriots. On 5 March 1770, a mob of around 300 American Patriots accosted nine British soldiers on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Outraged by the British occupation of their city, as well as the recent murder of an 11-year-old boy, the crowd was filled with Bostonians from all walks of life; among them was Crispus Attucks, a mixed-race sailor commonly thought to have been of ...
Hace 2 días · 2 p.m. – Child Soldiers of the American Revolution – Ivan & Cohen Daniels, Watauga Valley Fifes & Drums. 3 p.m. – Auction – Open to reenactors and the public alike. Pick up some nice 18 th century reproductions, books, and more. 4 p.m. – Event Closed for the Day Sunday, May 19. 10 a.m. – Event Opens.
Hace 4 días · In recent years, the Hocking Valley Chapter for Sons of the American Revolution has spearheaded these grave marking ceremonies — events where SAR chapters honor veterans with a new grave marker — and have previously honored 17 of the 22 Revolutionary War veterans buried beneath their feet.
Hace 2 días · George Mason, author of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights and co-father of the United States Bill of Rights. On May 10, 1775, less than three weeks after the Battles at Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress convened in the Pennsylvania State House.
