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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.

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

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

"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

Six of the seven Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence were related to each other either through Robert "King" Carter*, one of the wealthiest men in Virginia, or one of the other Founding Families of Virginia. Carter Braxton and Benjamin Harrison were first cousins. Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were brothers and 2nd cousins to Thomas Jefferson Thomas Nelson, Jr was a cousin to Braxton, Harrison, the Lee Brothers, and Thomas Jefferson George Wyth

"The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 84