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Samuel Adams was born wealthy but squandered most of it while he worked to free the colonies from Britain's rule. As a young man he did not do well in some jobs and finally his father put him to work at his brewery where he was known as “Sam the Maltster” because he hauled bags of malt up and down the street for his father’s business. He was in his twenties but still dependent on his father for an income.

Earl Averill In 1776 , expecting the British to arrive at any moment, Washington  directs engineers to press the works forward with “every possible dispatch,” calling for additional men to complete New York’s defenses. The city fills with arriving soldiers from several colonies, swelling the ranks but also heightening concerns about discipline. With no clear distinction between citizen and soldier, enforcing order remains a constant challenge. In 1787, the first American com

“It is a very great mistake to image that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular action.”  Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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