Thirteen Originals

The Thirteen Original Colonies ~ listed in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows:

• New England:
  • Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire
  • Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine
  • Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  • Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut
• Middle Colonies:
  • Province of New York, later New York and Vermont
  • Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey
  • Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania
  • Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware
• Cheasapeake Colonies:
  • Province of Maryland, later Maryland and Washington D.C.
  • Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia
• Southern Colonies:
  • Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee
  • Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina
  • Province of Georgia, later Georgia

The Flame of Freedom

Yorktown, Virginia, where Independence was won, 19 October 1781.

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British Soldier Graves

Minute Man Park, Lexington, Concord, Massachusetts

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
~~”The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

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Old North Bridge

Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts

This most hallowed site, Old North Bridge of the 19th of April ‘75, was restored in 2005. The original structure that reverberated with the famous “shot heard ’round the world” was built in 1760; now only one of a series of bridges that have spanned the river since the early 1630s until the present day. North Bridge Restoration Project

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Castle William Circa 1634

FORT INDEPENDENCE, Boston Harbor began as a well fortified bastion named Castle William. Located on Castle Island since the early years of the Massachusetts colony, the fortification was rebuilt in 1644, and burned in 1673. A new fort of stone was then erected, which, preceding the American Revolution, provided shelter for the British. After the Revolution, the name was changed to Fort Adams. It was President Adams in 1799, who renamed the works as Fort Independence.

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Saint Michael’s Church

Saint Michael’s, organized in 1703, is the oldest Episcopal parish in the area of Trenton, New Jersey. After Washington’s Continental army crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Eve of 1776, these church grounds were the site of much of the fighting during the Battle of Trenton that followed, as Britain’s Hessian mercenaries had stationed themselves and their artillery here. The church’s cemetery contains some notable graves including David Brearly, a signer of the U. S. Constitution, and the infant daughter of Joseph Bonaparte.

Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church is on the National Register of Historic Places (New Jersey’s Capital City, Mercer County, Capital District, Trenton, NJ, USA).

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Drummer Boy of Bunker Hill

“Robert Steele, The Drummer Boy, At The Battle Of, Bunker Hill, June 17th, 1775.“

His grave at Westwood, Massachusetts was decorated on Memorial Day 2006. “Maj. Robert Steele died June 22, 1833, aged 71 years. ~~ Lydia Steele his wife, born April 17, 1782, died Sept. 23, 1858, aged 76 years.” Major Steele did well, going from drummer boy to Major.

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Plaque on Fraunces Tavern

Fraunces Tavern Web Site

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Fraunces Tavern

This structure at 54 Pearl Street in New York City’s Financial District, is Manhattan’s oldest surviving building. It was originally built in 1719, as a home for Stephen Delancey, a Huguenot refugee and merchant. In 1762, the building came into the possession of Samuel Fraunces who opened it as a tavern. It remains so today, serving lunch and dinner. It now also houses the Fraunces Tavern Museum.

During the American Revolution, the building had become famous, not for its good food and drink, but for its rebellious politics. The Sons of Liberty held meetings here before the British occupation. Festivities were held at the tavern for Evacuation Day on November 25, 1783.

One week later, in December of 1783, George Washington made his farewell to the officers of the Continental Army in this tavern. It was an emotional speech which publicly insured that the new United States of America would not become a military dictatorship. From thence, the general retired to his farm in Virginia. Six years later, in 1789, George Washington returned to New York City, the capitol of the United States, to be sworn in as the first president.

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Fraunces Tavern Sign

New York City, New York
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