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The letter to her from Hume, on his deathbed, is most pathetic, showing the influence of this woman and the nature of the impression she left upon her friends: "Edinburgh, 20th of August, 1776.
Before departing Franklin got together what money he could, "between three and four thousand pounds," and lent it to Congress; he then sailed with his two grandsons, William Temple Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache, reaching Paris December 21, 1776.
Caeser Rodney-Thomas McKain-George Read At the urgent request of Thomas McKain, Caesar Rodney being then in Delaware, rode post haste on horseback to Philadelphia and reached Independence Hall July 4, 1776. The following day news of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence reaching Dover a portrait of King George was burned on Dover Green at the order of the Committee of Safety.
With this resolution, victory and success certainly will attend us. There will then be a glorious issue to this campaign, and the General will reward his brave soldiers with every indulgence in his power." "New York, August 16, 1776. "It is now past ten o'clock, and Mr.
In 1776 certain gentiles, who were hostile to some Indians that were sheltered by the padres, attacked the Mission by discharging burning arrows upon the tule roof of the buildings, and everything was destroyed, save the church and the granary. Rivera came at once, captured two of the ringleaders, and sent them for punishment to the Monterey presidio.
Shortly after this date he started a Gazette of his own, and in the issue of his paper for June 7, 1776, he printed the heraldic device of a shield, on which is a rattlesnake coiled, with supporters, dexter, a bear collared and chained, sinister, a stag. The crest is a woman's head crowned and the motto: Don't tread on me.
In common with the majority of their neighbors they were inclined to sympathize with the New England "rebels" at the outbreak of the American Revolution, and the name of Oliver Perley appears as one of the "rebel" committee appointed at the meeting held at Maugerville in May, 1776.
The services and aids of Spain, material and moral, pecuniary and diplomatic, to the American Revolutionary cause, the introduction, through the fortunes of Captain John Lee of Marblehead, of the American question into the policy and polities of Spain, the effect of the arrival of our National Declaration of the 4th of July, 1776, on the fate of that gallant New England cruiser, then detained as a pirate, for his heroic exploits under our infant and unknown flag, the incidents of vast and varied labor and accomplishment in our behalf, connected with the name and administration of the eminent Spanish minister and statesman, Florida Blanca, the weaving and spreading out of that network of influences and circumstances, in the toils of which France and Spain entangled Great Britain, until she found herself confronted by much of the physical and all the moral power of the Continent, and from which all extrication was made hopeless, until the American Colonies should be free, the origin of "the armed neutrality," and the shock it gave to the naval power of England, in the very crisis of the hopes of American liberty, are presented in a narrative, clear, condensed, and original.
In 1776, the celebrated Dr. May this conviction soon reach every owner of slaves in North America! Slavery is, in every instance, wrong, unrighteous, and oppressive a very great and crying sin there being nothing of the kind equal to it on the face of the earth." The same year the American Congress issued a solemn MANIFESTO to the world.
He was then employed in the neighborhood of Charleston; being engaged in the occupation of Fort Johnson and the command of Dorchester. He was with Moultrie, at Sullivan's Island in May, 1776, during that fierce day of battle when the British were driven from the southern colonies, and particularly distinguished himself in the gallant defence.
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