Timothy W Kutas DDS

At the same time the British were transporting Loyalists and their slaves primarily to the Caribbean but some to Nova Scotia for example over 5,000 enslaved Africans owned by Loyalists were transported in 1782 with their owners from Savannah to Jamaica and St Augustine Florida (then controlled by Britain) Similarly over half of the black people evacuated in 1782 from Charleston by the British to the West Indies and Florida were slaves owned by white Loyalists. The Congress of the United States serves two distinct purposes that overlap: local representation to the federal government of a congressional district by representatives and a state's at-large representation to the federal government by senators. William Few Georgia 1 Yes Source of data: USGS, President James Madison members of his government and the military fled the city in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg They eventually found refuge for the night in Brookeville a small town in Montgomery County Maryland which is known today as the "United States' Capital for a Day." President Madison spent the night in the house of Caleb Bentley a Quaker who lived and worked in Brookeville Bentley's house known today as the Madison House still stands in Brookeville, 7 Bibliography Reenactors in U.S (left) and Mexican (right) uniforms of the period.

Washington received his initial military training and command with the Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War He was later elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses and was named a delegate to the Continental Congress where he was appointed Commanding General of the Continental Army He commanded American forces allied with France in the defeat and surrender of the British during the Siege of Yorktown and resigned his commission in 1783 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Ostend Manifesto 7.2 South Branch Potomac River, Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation c 1790), Washington D.C. Business Directory Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862. The term Founding Fathers is sometimes used to refer to the Signers of the embossed version of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signers is not be confused with the term Framers; the Framers are defined by the National Archives as those 55 individuals who were appointed to be delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States Of the 55 Framers only 39 were signers of the Constitution. Two further groupings of Founding Fathers include: 1) those who signed the Continental Association a trade ban and one of the colonists' first collective volleys protesting British control and the Intolerable Acts in 1774, or 2) those who signed the Articles of Confederation the first U.S constitutional document, The principal organized bodies to advocate abolition and anti-slavery reforms in the north were the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and the New York Manumission Society Before the 1830s the antislavery groups called for gradual emancipation. By the late 1820s under the impulse of religious evangelicals the sense emerged that owning slaves was a sin and the owner had to immediately free himself from this grave sin by emancipation, In April 1776 the North Carolina Provincial Congress issued the Halifax Resolves explicitly authorizing its delegates to vote for independence by June nine Provincial Congresses were ready for independence; one by one the last four fell into line: Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland and New York Richard Henry Lee was instructed by the Virginia legislature to propose independence and he did so on June 7 1776 On June 11 a committee was created to draft a document explaining the justifications for separation from Britain After securing enough votes for passage independence was voted for on July 2! Source of data: USGS, Richard Caswell North Carolina 1 Yes, 17.3 Oral histories and autobiographies of ex-slaves.