John Lee Hancock

In 1795 Paul Revere and Samuel Adams placed in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts Statehouse a time capsule. It was a small box, an inch and a half deep and about half the size of a piece of printer paper. Two-hundred and twenty years pass- neighborhoods are built, colleges, schools, churches; the Civil War, and its draft riots, begin and end. Flight is conquered; the automatic rifle is invented- the typewriter, telegraph, television, and the computer soon follow. Awash with war, the twentieth

Charles Searles-American Painter Jarrett Lopez July 29, 2015 Professor Harmon, Susan Fine Art Appreciation Charles Searles was an American painter born in Philadelphia in 1937 and before his passing in 2004 he was lived in New York. The eldest Charles and his then wife Catherine Hall Searles. He second of 8 children – his siblings are Phyllis, Charles, Barbara, Frances, Rose, Catherine, Elizabeth and his only brother, Derrick. Information about Charles Searles is located in the text book

his wish. Other colonies The tensions between Britain and the colonies led to armed conflict in Massachusetts. Americans at times still find themselves called upon to fight for their principles. MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW This statue of Captain John Parker stands in Lexington, Massachusetts. 154-157US8P R U2C06S3 11/26/02 12:11 PM Page 154 immediately offered Massachusetts their support. They sent food and money to Boston. The committees of correspondence also called for a

seizing arms, munitions, supplies, and military stores. General Gage gave this mission to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith with very discreet orders to not brief his soldiers as to what the exact mission would be. General Gage also appointed Major John Pitcairn as the Executive Officer for the mission. “The initial mission would consist of approximately 700 British Regulars, who were pulled from 11 of General Gage’s 13 infantry regiments. Major Pitcairn would command 10 elite infantry companies and

John Singleton Copley’s a Bostonian Anglo-American Painter who lived in the late 1700s to early 1800s. One of Copley’s most infamous works of art is the painting, “Mrs. Richard Skinner.” This painting is noted in being a woman named Dorothy Wendell (Dorothy Quincy). Dorothy Wendell came from a reputable family “Quincy family” and was wed to John Hancock, a well-known political figure. Copley is trying to convey the struggles of women during the eighteenth century and the yearn for equal rights which

Daniel Shays Daniel Shays served role as an American officer in the American Revolution from 1775 to 1780 and also became known as one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion, which lasted from 1786 to 1787. In 1780 he resigned from the army, and settled in Pelham, Massachusetts, where he held numerous town offices. Soon after, wealth reigned in America at the signing of the peace treaty in 1783, but was quickly transformed into a severe economic depression. He began his rebellion when property holders

Gage of the British military that colonists were gathering weapons to fight against the British for their independence. (Waldman 5) On April 14, 1775 General Thomas Gage received covert orders from Britain capture colonial leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who had been provoking the colonists to rebel against the British for their freedom, as well as to capture and destroy the colonial rebels military supplies. Spies and friends of the colonial Patriots leaked out General Gage's plan. Through the

John Adams John Adams, this man has done many things. John Adams was born in braintree, massachusetts, or now as it is now called Quincy, massachusetts, on October thirtieth in the year 1735(“John Adams”). After being given a scholarship when he was sixteen John Adams attended Harvard University . There he was given his Master's degree and his Undergraduate degree. John then later graduated from Harvard in 1755 when he was twenty years old(“Bio.Com2”). John Adams was also part of the first continental

-Stated in the preface, Leonard L. Richards had heard the standard story of Shays's Rebellion time and time again. While finding a last-minute book for his class, he discovered in a footnote that the Massachusetts Archives had the names of the Shaysites,not just the names of the leaders, but some four thousand names. With most rebellions, finding out who participated is difficult, making this unusual. Again by accident, Richards learned that the university library had the pertinent state archives

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