On July 1st in U S Political History
On July 1st in 1656 The 1st Quakers, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, arrived in Boston and were promptly arrested.
On July 1st in 1731 The “Instrument of Association” for the Library Company of Philadelphia was signed under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin. It was America’s first circulating library.
On July 1st in 1776 The Continental Congress, sitting as a committee, met on July 1, 1776 to debate a resolution submitted by Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee on June 7. The resolution stated that the United Colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." The committee voted for the motion and, on July 2 in formal session took the final vote for independence.
On July 1st in 1776 The British fleet anchored off Sandy Hook in New York Bay.
On July 1st in 1777 British troops departed from their base at the Bouquet river to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.
On July 1st in 1817 Dewitt Clinton (1769-1828) began serving his first term as governor of New York and continued to 1822.
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