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unusual facts about colonial America



Mary Willing Byrd

Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740 – March 1814) was the second wife of Colonel William Byrd III, a colonial American military officer at the time of the American Revolution and son of the founder of Richmond, Virginia.

Oldest public university in the United States

The college severed formal ties with Britain after the colonies declared independence, but remained private until financial troubles forced its closure after the Civil War.

Philadelphia lawyer

Philadelphia-based Colonial American lawyer Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer best known for his legal victory on behalf of printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger, is believed to have inspired the "Philadelphia lawyer" term.

Popular Health Movement

In colonial America, most medical care had been administered at home by a woman, and the lay practice of medicine was dominated by women.

Reading law

In colonial America, as in Britain in that day, law schools did not exist at all until Litchfield Law School was founded in 1773.

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

The group then travels to the island of 1776, which reflects Colonial America and is ruled over by "Sev" (AKA 1776), who resembles Benjamin Franklin.

Thomas Balch

Thomas Balch (Leesburg, Virginia, July 23, 1821 — Philadelphia, March 29, 1877) was an American historian, best known for his work on the American Revolutionary War, originally written in French and later translated into English as The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783.


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David McGregor

David McGregore (1710–1777), member of colonial America Christian clergy

Herbert L. Satterlee

Through his paternal grandmother, Mary LeRoy Livingston, he is a direct descendant of Robert Livingston, the first Lord of colonial America's Livingston Manor.

Hiding in Time

Nathan Crew is an accidental tourist in Colonial America who is swept up in the events unfolding before him, including having Benjamin Franklin coax him into being an unwitting participant in the Boston Tea Party.

Pequot War

Most modern historians such as Alfred A. Cave, a specialist in the ethnohistory of colonial America, do not debate questions of the outcome of the battle or its chronology.