Showing posts with label colonial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colonial. Show all posts
Jul 4, 2022

Maryland and the road to independence: Charles Carroll of Carrollton

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(Baltimore Sun) Charles Carroll of Carrollton wasn’t in Philadelphia when the Second Continental Congress voted to break from Great Britain...
Jul 4, 2017

A woman’s name on the Declaration of Independence

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(Washington Post) This Fourth of July, look closely at one of those printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. See it? The woman...
Nov 6, 2015

Harford officials hope to preserve historic Bel Air house, golf course barn being dismantled

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  (Aegis) Harford County officials and the Historical Society of Harford County are working to move and preserve the historic Joesting-...
May 1, 2013

Archaeology and forensic anthropology confirm survival cannibalism at Jamestown

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Findings were proven through collaborative research efforts by Preservation Virginia's Jamestown Rediscovery Project (archaeology), T...
Apr 10, 2013

The London Company

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  (Wikipedia) The London Company (also called the Charter of the Virginia Company of London) was an English joint stock company establis...
Mar 25, 2013

Maryland Day

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  (LoC) On March 25, Marylanders celebrate the 1634 arrival of the first colonists to the land that King Charles I of England had charter...
Mar 24, 2013

Quartering Act of 1765

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(Wikipedia) ... This first Quartering Act (citation 5 Geo. III c. 33) was given Royal Assent on March 24, 1765, and provided that Great Br...
Mar 22, 2013

Charles Carroll

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(Wikipedia) - Charles Carroll (March 22, 1723 – March 23, 1783) was an American lawyer and statesman from Annapolis, Maryland. He was a de...
Mar 12, 2013

A Road Trip to Gettysburg and Homes of Founding Fathers

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(NYTimes) You can almost see them, spectral figures moving through thick forest, ragged, rugged men who endured astonishing hardship just t...
Feb 23, 2013

1778: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge to help train the Continental Army

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  (Wikipedia) ... On September 26, 1777, the Baron, his Italian greyhound, Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide de c...
Feb 22, 2013

George Washington

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  (LoC) George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born on February 22, 1732. Americans celebrate his birthday alo...
Feb 10, 2013

Treaty of Paris (1763)

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  (Wikipedia) The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdom...
Feb 9, 2013

Aged grist mill awaits scarce federal funds

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(Baltimore Sun) PERRYVILLE, Maryland — A 250-year-old grist mill near the mouth of the Susquehanna River has sat mostly vacant since the en...
Feb 5, 2013

The Whacking Day Blizzard

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1772: York County, Pennsylvania Three and one-half feet of snow falls in the county followed by a freezing rain. A thick crust forms, a co...
Jan 16, 2013

Alexander J. Dallas

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(Wikipedia) Alexander James Dallas (June 21, 1759 – January 16, 1817) was an American statesman who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary ...
Jan 2, 2013

Parishioners say goodbye to St. George's Spesutia at final service

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(Aegis) The parishioners at St. George's Spesutia Church were not celebrating Christmas on Sunday morning, the Rev. Bill Smith told th...
Dec 9, 2012

Edwin Sandys

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(Wikipedia) Sir Edwin Sandys (pronounced "Sands") (9 December 1561 – October 1629) was an English statesman and one of the founde...
Dec 4, 2012

Samuel Argall

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  (Encyclopedia Virginia) Samuel Argall was a longtime resident of Jamestown and the deputy governor of Virginia (1617–1619). He pioneere...
Nov 26, 2012

Remembering Repudiation Day

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  (Gazette.Net) There are some ill-informed denizens of Frederick County who labor under the misapprehension that the tea party movement...
Nov 21, 2012

The Pilgrims Should Have Been Thankful for a Spirochete

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  (Slate) As we feast on succulent turkey, moist stuffing, and glistening cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving, the furthest thing from ou...