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Edward Rutledge, SC Signer of the Declaration, married Henrietta Middleton who was the sister of Arthur Middleton. Arthur was also a SC Signer of the Declaration. John Adams worked closely with Rutledge but did not like him. Adams later described him as "Young Ned Rutledge a peacock who wasted time upon points of little consequence.”

First American School for the Deaf In 1528, Pánfilo Narváez, a Spanish conquistador, arrived in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians. In 1715, the Pocotaligo Massacre of four South Carolina representatives triggered the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin’s satirical open letter to Prime Minister Lord North was published. In 1776, Washington spent the day in a flurry of correspondence from his New York hea

“Jefferson lives.” Last words of John Adams

“We were regaled here with a good Dish of Tea, good cream, good Bread & Butter and some nice broiled ham as a Relisher. We were both tired and hungry, W.W. (Whipple) drank Tea and crown’d his Breakfast with a bowl if milk. W.E. confined himself to Tea & Bread & Butter at which he shone.” As they traveled through New Jersey, General Whipple noted that it was “was not divided into townships” and once in New York, he wrote that “The East End of Long Island where farming is carri

In 1756, the Governor Glen of South Carolina protested against 900 Acadia Indians. In 1775, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first American society dedicated to the cause of abolition , is founded in Philadelphia on April 14, 1775. In 1776, Washington spent his first full day at his New York headquarters, a townhouse on Broadway, where he began taking charge of the city’s defenses. In the day’s  orders , he thanks Major General  Charl

There are two facts of the day - one is not so fun, but the other is... Ulysses S. Grant and his wife turn down an invitation to join President and Mrs. Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre to see the comedic play "Our American Cousin." In doing so, he deprives assassin John Wilkes Booth of a second target. Linden Tree in front of the Bartlett Home Dr. Josiah Bartlett's home in New Hampshire is still standing and is a large white farmhouse structure that has a Linden tree from Philadel