Washington D.C. Business Directory Further information: Confederation Period and Articles of Confederation Washington first ordered a 60-mile search for Durham boats to transport his army and he ordered the destruction of vessels that could be used by the British He crossed the Delaware River at sunset Christmas Day and risked capture staking out the Jersey shoreline His men followed across the ice-obstructed river in sleet and snow at McKonkey's Ferry with 40 men per vessel Wind churned up the waters and they were pelted with hail but by 3 A.M they made it across with no losses. Henry Knox was delayed managing frightened horses and about 18 field guns on flat-bottomed ferries Cadwalader and Ewing failed to cross due to the ice and heavy currents and a waiting Washington doubted his planned attack on Trenton Once Knox arrived Washington proceeded to Trenton to take only his troops against the Hessians rather than risk being spotted returning his army to Pennsylvania; Based on his letters diary documents accounts from colleagues employees friends and visitors Washington slowly developed a cautious sympathy toward abolitionism that eventually ended with the emancipation of his own slaves, Many of the Founding Fathers attended or graduated from the colonial colleges most notably Columbia known at the time as "King's College" Princeton originally known as "The College of New Jersey" Harvard College the College of William and Mary Yale College and University of Pennsylvania Some had previously been home schooled or obtained early instruction from private tutors or academies. Others had studied abroad Ironically Benjamin Franklin who had little formal education himself would ultimately establish the College of Philadelphia based on European models (1740); "Penn" would have the first medical school (1765) in the thirteen colonies where another Founder Benjamin Rush would eventually teach. ; .
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the District since 2010 and conversion therapy has been forbidden since 2015 Assisted suicide is also permitted in the district with a bill legalizing the practice being introduced in 2015 signed by mayor Muriel Bowser in 2016 and going into effect in 2017 making Washington D.C the seventh jurisdiction in the United States to have legalized assisted suicide along with Washington Oregon California Colorado Hawaii Montana and Vermont! In early June nine slaveholding Southern states sent delegates to the Nashville Convention to determine their course of action if the compromise passed While some delegates preached secession the moderates ruled and proposed a series of compromises including extending the dividing line designated by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to the Pacific Coast.
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