by Rick Boyer | Oct 6, 2017 | History Stories
From our A Tidbit from History Series… Francis Lewis represented New York in signing the Declaration of Independence. In 1775 he was elected to the Continental Congress and shortly thereafter moved his family to a comfortable estate on Long Island. But, it was a...
by Rick Boyer | Sep 19, 2017 | History Stories
When Roger Sherman came to the Continental Congress from Connecticut, he did not present a very impressive figure. He had a thick New England accent and often gestured energetically with his hands as he spoke. But it wasn’t long before he earned the respect of...
by Rick Boyer | Aug 29, 2017 | History Stories
It was the evening of the 18th of April, 1775. Elbridge Gerry, a member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts was staying overnight in a house near Menotomoy with his friend, Colonel Orne. There had been a meeting of a Congressional committee that day in...
by Rick Boyer | Jul 3, 2017 | History Stories
“The “how” and the “why” of our beloved republic are so much better understood than the “who.” The United States of America was born in 1776 but it was conceived 169 years before that. The earliest settlers had watered the new...
