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2 days ago · On July 25 George Wythe of Williamsburg and Thomas Nelson Jr. of Yorktown were still in Philadelphia attending sessions of the Second Continental Congress when the Declaration was read in front of ...
4 days ago · Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1738-1789) Nelson was born in Yorktown, Virginia, but attended school in England, a common practice for families that could afford it. He returned to America in 1760 after stops at Newscome’s School, Eton, and Cambridge.
1 day ago · Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration, largely wrote the first draft of the Declaration in isolation between June 11, 1776, and June 28, 1776, from the second floor of a three-story home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia.
1 day ago · Dramatization of events surrounding the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson and approved by the Continental Congress and signed on July 4, 1776. (more) See all videos for this article.
1 day ago · Thomas Jefferson, a key Founding Father, was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, which Pulitzer Prize -winning historian Joseph Ellis says contains "the most potent and consequential words in American history". [6] Historian Richard Morris' selection of seven key founders was widely accepted through the 20th century.
Jun 27, 2024 · On a stretch of country road outside Boston a prolonged skirmish between 3,500 colonial militia men and 1,700 of His Majesty's redcoats opened the American Revolution. The initial fighting in the war was a local action between Britain and her recalcitrant colony of Massachusetts.
2 days ago · Harrison was a grandson of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Virginia planter who signed the Declaration of Independence and succeeded Thomas Nelson Jr. as governor of Virginia.
