Speaking on Lord Dunmore's proclamation, here's a dramatic account of the battle of Kemp's Landing, where a newly free man ended up fighting in close quarters against his former master: #skystorians #freedomseekers #americanrevolution #ushistory #250yearsago
I met a polish citizen on the bike path on my way to the hands off protest in Lexington yes that Lexington - America conversation! #250yearsago
This is History!
#History #Lantern #250yearsago #April181775 #OldNorthChurch #ConcordMuseum
Text from HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WITH GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. BY J. SMITH FUTHEY AND GILBERT COPE. PHILADELPHIA: LOUIS H. EVERTS. 1881. PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA. GRONOW, LEWIS, was one of the early and stanch collaborators of those Chester County patriots who assisted to put the ball in motion which resulted in the independence of these United States. He was one of the county committee which assumed the local government in Decem-ber, 1774, under the auspices of the Continental Congress; and on March 20, 1775, that committee met at the house of Richard Cheyney, in East Caln, and on motion, "Ordered, That Mr. Hockley, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Gronow, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Taylor be a committee to essay & draught of a petition to present to the General Assembly of this province, with regard to the manumission of slaves, especially relating to the freedom of infants hereafter born of black women, within this colony." In 1777, Mr. Gronow was elected a member of the General Assembly for Chester County. He was also a sub-lieu-tenant of the county,— one of the officers having charge of the military organization of the same. On June 17, 1777, an order was drawn in favor of Lewis Gronow, Esq., sub-lieutenant of Chester County, for $4000, for the purpose of procuring substitutes, blankets, etc. And again, March 30, 1780, Col. Robert Smith was appointed lieutenant, and Col. Thomas Cheyney, Lewis Gronow, Andrew Boyd, Thomas Levis, and Robert Wilson were appointed sub-lieutenants of the county of Chester. Lewis Gronow, it is believed, died soon after this, and his personal history, like that of many other good patriots of those days, seems to be nearly lost; but his memory remains in our archives as that of a faithful servant in his country’s cause.
#250YearsAgo #OnThisDay: history bit—my 6x Great Uncle Lewis Gronow was on a 3/20/1775 Chester County PA committee that presented a petition to Gen Assemby… “with regard to the manumission of slaves, especially relating to the freedom of infants hereafter born of black women, within this colony."
