Charles County, MD, declaration to declare independence (June 1776)
Editor’s Note: A first glance at the grievances enumerated here, and the language and tone in which they are presented, and you might think that Charles County took its cue from our July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence — yet it was issued about a month before that famous document. Charles County, in the convention […]
Charles County, Maryland, Declaration of Independence
Editor’s Note: One of the last state and local declarations to be issued before the Second Continential Congress, led by Jefferson, got to work making a declaration of its own — one that history would characterize as the declaration to end all declarations — Maryland was one of the last to come aboard the independence […]
