All posts tagged "continental congress"
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5.3K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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5.0K2ConnecticutHorror Stories About Revolutionary Prisoners Inflame the Colonies
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
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7.9K1ConnecticutConnecticut Battles Pennsylvania in the Pennamite Wars
The Pennamite Wars between Connecticut and Pennsylvania involved some of the worst brutality of the Revolutionary era. They also resulted in the...
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4.4KPolitics and MilitaryIsrael Potter, Revolutionary POW, Hobnobs in Europe With a King and 2 Founding Fathers
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
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11.3K1MassachusettsIn 1774 Joshua Edson Reads About His Death
In October of 1774, Boston newspaper publishers Benjamin Edes and John Gil printed a letter that told of a startling sight in...
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11.4K4New England PlacesSix Places That Raised a Liberty Pole
Beginning in 1766, the liberty pole symbolized dissent from Great Britain, but over the years it took on different meanings for the...
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5.7K1Politics and MilitaryRhode Island’s Abraham Whipple Sails to Bermuda for George Washington
In June of 1775, with the Battle of Bunker Hill over, George Washington needed ammunition to prepare for the American Revolutionary War...
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14.7K1MassachusettsThe 18 Patriots Condemned to Death – Who Wouldn’t Die
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
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11.6K18MassachusettsWhen John Adams Slept With Ben Franklin
John Adams slept with Benjamin Franklin in a New Jersey tavern during the fall of 1776. They stopped on a journey from...
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4.2KNew England PlacesSix Courageous Heroes From New England
Not all courageous heroes receive their due on Veterans or any other day. So many sacrifices have gone unheralded, so many men...
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