• The Augusta Declaration, or the Memorial of Augusta County Committee, May 10, 1776, was a statement presented to the Fifth Virginia Convention in Williamsburg...
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  • In response to the Stamp and Tea Acts, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October...
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    The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights) was a statement...
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    The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775. Written by...
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    much discussed and all encompassing declaration of independence. The primary impediment to an outright declaration of independence from Great Britain was...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    Sampson Mathews (category People from Augusta County, Virginia)
    the Augusta County Committee of Safety that drafted the Augusta Resolves, a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, and the Augusta Declaration, a...
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  • tract written by Thomas Jefferson in 1774, before the United States Declaration of Independence, in which he laid out for delegates to the First Continental...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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  • 1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    Suffolk Resolves was a declaration made on September 9, 1774, by the leaders of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The declaration rejected the Massachusetts...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and...
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    Congress approved Lee's proposal on July 2 and approved Jefferson's Declaration of Independence on July 4. The constitution of the Fifth Virginia Convention...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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  • (1739–1812) were members of the Augusta County Committee of Safety, which drafted the Augusta Resolves and the Augusta Declaration. In total, three of Mathews’...
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    Drive in Augusta, Georgia. It was a home of Founding Father George Walton (1749–1804), one of Georgia's three signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
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    rejection of the petition was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress...
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    Formation of Lee's Legion Fifth Virginia Convention Augusta Declaration Lee Resolution Virginia Declaration of Rights 1779 Chesapeake raid 1781 Raid on Richmond...
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    assembly, took part in the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, and drafted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.: 114  In 1767, following the passage of the...
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  • 1775) Augusta Resolves (February 1775) Augusta Declaration (May 1776) Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 1776) First Continental Congress Declaration and...
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    Signers Monument (category Buildings and structures in Augusta, Georgia)
    obelisk located on Greene Street in Augusta, Georgia recognizing the state's three signatories of the Declaration of Independence: George Walton, Lyman...
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    and met the American heavy cruiser USS Augusta, where Roosevelt and members of his staff were waiting. Augusta was escorted by the cruiser USS Tuscaloosa...
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    Father and signer of Declaration of Independence Richard H. Wilde (1789-1847), American politician State of Georgia portal Augusta University — located...
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    Augsburg is one of Germany's oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum and named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free...
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    George Walton (category Signers of the United States Declaration of Independence)
    a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence while representing Georgia in the Continental Congress...
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    to enable His Majesty to settle on their Royal Highnesses the Princess Augusta Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia, an Annuity of Thirty-six thousand...
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