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Richard Sherman is the only Founding Father to sign all five major founding Documents Declaration and Resolves (1774), Articles of Association (1774), Declaration of Independence (1776), Articles of Confederation (1777/78), Constitution (1787)

William Price In 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved funding for a gun factory in North Carolina to be built by Richard Herring and John Devane. The factory was to produce muskets with 3-foot, 8-inch barrels and 18-inch bayonets, at no more than five pounds each. In 1776, in today’s orders, Washington works to turn a collection of provincial regiments into a disciplined army before the British strike New York. He reshapes the army in New York into five brigades and

“It is a fundamental principle in the British Constitution and I think must be in every free State, that no laws bind the people but such as they consent to be Governed by, therefore so far as the people of the Colonies are Bound by Laws made without their consent, they must be in a state of Slavery or absolute subjection to the Will of others; if this Right belongs to the people of the Colonies, why should they not claim and enjoy it?" Roger Sherman, CT Signer of the Declara

Nicholas Cooke, RI Governor In 1635, the Boston Grammar School (later the Boston Latin School), open to all boys regardless of social class, was founded as the first public school in what would become the United States; it set a precedent for tax-supported public education. In 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress voted to raise a volunteer force of 13,600 men. In 1776, South Carolina Indicts the King for Actions Against the Colonies. In 1776, in a letter to John Hancoc

More of a morbid fact of the day, but James Wilson, a Pennsylvania Signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in 1789 after being thrown in a debtor's prison twice, once while he was a Supreme Court Justice. He was buried in an unmarked grave to prevent creditors from trying to claim the body, thereby forcing the family to pay off his debts to get his body returned. Creditors would often do this to be repaid the money they were owed.

"The happiness of civil society depends not merely upon their constitution of government but upon a variety of circumstances. One constitution may suit one particular nation exceedingly well; when a different one would suit another nation in different circumstances. Even among the American states there is such a difference in sentiments, habits, and customs that a government which would be very suitable for one might not be agreeable to another." Samuel Huntington, CT Signer