Pearl Street's Fraunces Tavern today (in lower Manhattan) site of a big banquet in June 1776 that Washington attended. So where were the patriots as of mid-summer 1776? Let's find out. The Second Continental Congress Two-hundred and fifty (250) years ago in late June 1776, state delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia debated Jefferson's draft of The Declaration of Independence (DOI). Jefferson was the key person in the Committee of Five (Adams, Franklin, Living

I have started to give a few presentations based on my long article for Connecticut History Review. Entitled, "To Provision Washington's Army: 1776 and the Norwich Huntington Group." It is a bit of an awkward title but one that just keeps sticking I guess. Norwich was a key SAFE supply depot, loyalist prison center, admiralty court, and embarkation destination for thousands of Continental army troops during 1776. Most of the troops and supplies stopped in Norwich to take vess