Declaration of Independence

This Day In Founders History – 1 October

This Day in Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation.

October 1, 2012 7

This Day In Founders History – 21 September

September 21, 1784, the Pennsylvania Packet, and the General Advertiser, a weekly newspaper, began daily publication. Find out what else happened on This Day in Founders History at mikechurch.com

September 21, 2012 8

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founders History – 19 September

One notable birthday on this day in history in 1737, but it's a big one folks, that of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

September 19, 2012 7

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Vermonters Ally With the Like Minded For Secession & Follow The Founding Fathers Path

The Montpelier Manifesto by Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale, James Starkey, and Charles Keil Petition of Grievances We, citizens of this American land, haunted by the nihilism of separation, meaninglessness, and powerlessness, subsumed by political elites who use corporate, state, and military power to manipulate our lives, pawns of a global system of dominance and deceit in which transnational megacompanies and big government control us through money, markets, and media, […]

September 4, 2012 10

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This Day In Founders History – 10 August

[private FP-Yearly|FP-Monthly] [/private] This Day In Founders History – 10 August On this day in 1776, London received the United States Declaration of Independence. It was published in newspapers in Britain and other parts of Europe. Most Americans are familiar with the second paragraph of the Declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” but nearly half of the document […]

August 10, 2012 11

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This Day In Founders History – 2 August

[private FP-Yearly|FP-Monthly] If you're having problems playing the video, please download it, there may be an incompatibility with your browser. [/private] This Day In Founders History – 2 August On this day in 1776, members of the Continental Congress began signing the Declaration of Independence, with a total of 56 men signing. August 2, 1790, the first U.S. census began, revealing a population of nearly 4 million people in the […]

August 2, 2012 9

Founders Corner

The Lee Resolution, 7 June, 1776 “These United Colonies Are …Free & Independent”

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1776 The committee to whom was referred the letter from Eseck Hopkins, commodore of the continental fleet, dated Providence, May 22d, brought in their report, which, being taken into consideration, was agreed to; Whereupon, Resolved, That Mr. Charles Walker, of New Providence, ought to be paid the value of the sloopEndeavour, together with four tons of lignum vital, and one hundred […]

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