The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants ... Hall in Philadelphia to participate in the Second Continental Congress. There, on June 10, he proposed the idea of creating a ...

Lafayette residents are invited to a National Day of Prayer observance at St. John’s Cathedral ... America's independence, with the Second Continental Congress calling for a National Day ...

“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand ... while en route to Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress, where war was declared, and where ...

I believe our Founding Fathers wanted a Christian nation. Here are some examples: U.S. President John Quincy Adams: “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The first printed edition appeared the following day with just three names: John Hancock, President of ...

"The world that they knew was gone." The following month, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. There, delegates, including John Hancock and Sam Adams, appointed George ...

Old photographs of the Philadelphia BMC Local 7048 members cover the walls of the union local's office (Kenny Cooper/WHYY) Before the Second Continental Congress raised the ... election,” Adelman said ...

General Thomas Gage, ca 1768, by John Singleton Copley The British ... the position reiterated in the Second Continental Congress’s Olive Branch Petition of July, 1775. But George, too, had ...

“The chances were (that) he could be captured,” explained John Berry ... “When they convened the Second Continental Congress, when news of all this had occurred, that’s kind of when ...

the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia with the monumental task of establishing inter-colonial government with the capacity to wage war. Massachusetts delegate, John Adams ...

Over the ensuing months and years, the Second Continental Congress would answer these questions and many more. It featured the first congressional service by the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas ...

While Allen and his men turned their attention to consuming the British liquor supply, Arnold sailed and rowed to St. John ... even though the Continental Congress had advised the states to ...