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U.S. Flag Designs In 1776, after nine days on the road from Cambridge, Washington enters northern Manhattan at King’s Bridge. He finds a city tense with expectation. He dines at the popular tavern of Samuel Fraunces , on the corner of Pearl and Broad streets. New York’s importance weighs heavily: Its deep harbor can receive the British fleet, and control of the Hudson River could divide New England from the other colonies. The city is exposed, surrounded by navigable waters

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U.S. Flag Designs In 1776, after nine days on the road from Cambridge, Washington enters northern Manhattan at King’s Bridge. He finds a city tense with expectation. He dines at the popular tavern of Samuel Fraunces , on the corner of Pearl and Broad streets. New York’s importance weighs heavily: Its deep harbor can receive the British fleet, and control of the Hudson River could divide New England from the other colonies. The city is exposed, surrounded by navigable waters

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“Long has America mourned to find those she wishes to revere, adopting one plan after another to strip her of the blessings of freedom, deaf to all her pleas for justice. The Counsels of America, united in that illustrious body, the late Continental Congress, we hoped that by denying ourselves we should scatter the mist which hid the path of justice from the eye of Britain; but with pain we have learned that firmness is insolence, and that the most calm resolution to be free

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“The time is now at hand when we shall see that whether America has virtue enough to be free or not.” Dr. Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Fun Fact of the Day - Importance of Mothers

Dr. Benjamin Rush's mother, Susanna Hall Rush, owned her own grocery and provision store after his father passed away in 1751. It was named Blazing Star. She would marry once more, but would be widowed again. She was a source of strength and help to him in his early years, teaching him the importance of industry in success! She died in 1793 of yellow fever during the pandemic that swept Philadelphia that year. Parents make the difference in children's lives - they learn fro

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Cigarette Tax In 1776, Washington paused briefly in New Haven while traveling to New York. He writes to Samuel McKay, a British prisoner, responding to McKay’s plea for relief. Washington explains that he has repeatedly asked General William Howe for a prisoner exchange but has received no answer. If McKay remains confined, Washington says, the responsibility lies with Howe. In 1776, Major General Artemas Ward writes from Boston with intelligence: Captured sailors claim

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"Among the pretended defects are the re-eligibility of the Executive, the want of a council, the omission of a formal bill of rights, the omission of a provision respecting the liberty of the press. These and several others which have been noted in the course of our inquiries are as much chargeable on the existing constitution of this State, as on the one proposed for the Union; and a man must have slender pretensions to consistency, who can rail at the latter for imperfectio

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