All posts tagged "continental congress"
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9.9K1Politics and MilitaryVermont Statehood, Never A Sure Thing Until
The American Revolution finally ended for Vermont in Oct. 28, 1790, when the state offered to pay New York $30,000 ($770,000 in...
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John Adams Refuses To Condemn Benjamin Church
John Adams withheld judgment when an intercepted letter revealed Dr. Benjamin Church, the Continental Army’s surgeon general, to be a British spy....
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25.8K1ConnecticutSamuel Huntington, First President…of the United States?
Samuel Huntington wasn’t as educated as John Adams or as brilliant a speaker Patrick Henry, but he was a hard worker with...
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4.8K1ConnecticutLt. Col. Ebenezer Huntington Bemoans ‘Rascally Stupidity’ of His Countrymen
On July 7, 1780, a despairing Lt. Col. Ebenezer Huntington of Norwich, Conn., had no way of knowing the United States would...
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19.2K1MassachusettsBefore the Declaration of Independence, an Olive Branch Was Extended
One year before they signed the Declaration of Independence, the members of the continental congress extended an olive branch to King George...
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5.2K11MassachusettsThe ‘Ravishing Light and Glory’ of the Declaration of Independence
Shortly after the Declaration of Independence was first read in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to Samuel Chase, a fellow signer from Maryland and a future...
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