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7 unusual facts about Thirteen colonies


Anna Green Winslow

Anna's diary hints at the effect Revolutionary fever had on families who split on the question of how the British Crown treated its 13 American colonies.

Gideon Lincecum

Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.

Russell Menard

Professor Russell Menard of the University of Minnesota specializes in the economic and social history of the British colonies in North America.

Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area

The early colonial records of Maryland describe the area as a hunting ground for Native Americans.

South Jersey Radio Association

The VHF Colonial award is to operators who provide proof of a two way direct contact with each of the original Thirteen Colonies over amateur radio on frequencies of 50 MHz or above.

Thirteen Colonies

The royal officials responded to smuggling with open-ended search warrants (Writs of Assistance).

Tensions escalated in 1774 as Parliament passed the laws known as the Intolerable Acts, which, among other things, greatly restricted self-government in the colony of Massachusetts.


1788 in the United States

April 7 – American pioneers establish the town of Marietta (in modern-day Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.

Australia–United States relations

The penal colonies of Australia were actually a redirect from the Thirteen Colonies, for indentured and penal transportation for debtors was officially first begun in the Province of Georgia.

Chestertown Tea Party

In 1767 in an effort to raise money for England by taxing the thirteen colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts.

Distichs of Cato

He cites Cato in Poor Richard's Almanac and believed in the moral advice with such fervor he was troubled to print James Logan's translation called Cato's Moral Distichs Englished in Couplets in 1735, the first in the Colonies.

Frederick Augustus de Zeng

Baron Frederick Augustus de Zeng (born in Dresden, Saxony, in 1756; died in Clyde, New York, 26 April 1838) was a Hessian mercenary who served in one of the regiments in the British service in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution.

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – 25 February 1809), generally known as Lord Dunmore, was a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies.

Newport Gardner

Gardner was brought into the colonies as a slave at the age of fourteen where he was sold to Caleb Gardner, a young merchant in Newport, Rhode Island.

Old English District

Old English District was one of the districts of Tryon County when it was set off from Albany County, in the American colony of New York, on March 12, 1772.

Toile

Toiles were very popular during the Colonial Era in the United States and are highly associated with preservationist towns and historical areas such as Colonial Williamsburg.


see also

Ohio Country

Colonists in the Thirteen Colonies considered this one of the Intolerable Acts passed by Parliament, without their consent, and contributing to the American Revolution.