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2 days ago · On July 24, a Committee of Detail, including John Rutledge (South Carolina), Edmund Randolph (Virginia), Nathaniel Gorham (Massachusetts), Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut), and James Wilson (Pennsylvania), was elected to draft a detailed constitution reflective of the resolutions passed by the convention up to that point.
2 days ago · Edmund Randolph became the first Attorney General, while Henry Knox retained his position as head of the Department of War. Washington initially offered the position of Secretary of State to John Jay, who had served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs since 1784 and acted as the interim Secretary of State.
1 day ago · 2. A North Carolina town about twelve miles south of the Virginia border. 3. A tributary of the Neuse River in northeastern North Carolina. 4. In 1777, ten dollars was about six weeks’ wages for a Continental Army private. 5. John Turner (ca. 1755–1825) would rise to the rank of sergeant in the North Carolina brigade.
4 days ago · On February 17, 1927, the Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County and the New York County Clerk moved into their new home. A grand dedication ceremony included Benjamin Cardozo, Charles Evans ...
2 days ago · His defense lawyers included Edmund Randolph, John Wickham, Luther Martin and Benjamin Gaines Botts. Burr had been arraigned four times for treason before a grand jury indicted him. The only physical evidence presented to the grand jury was Wilkinson's so-called letter from Burr, which proposed the idea of stealing land in the Louisiana Purchase.
5 days ago · 1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 599 [AotW citation 18591] 2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam , Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 200 [AotW ...
1 hour ago · Whereas many of Our Subjects in divers Parts of Our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill-designing Men, and forgetting the Allegiance which they owe to the Power that has protected and sustained them, after various disorderly Acts committed in Disturbance of the Publick Peace, to the Obstruction of lawful ...
