Tag: Rockingham

The War Years (1775-1783) Posted on September 29, 2022

The Strange Affair of the King and the Repeal of the Stamp Act

“The King had evidently consented to the repeal, and then disavowed his Ministers.”—Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third In early 1766, in response to American violent resistance to the taxation levied by the Stamp Act of 1765, British leaders were concerned with determining “the best mode of restoring order & […]

by Ken Shumate

The War Years (1775-1783) Posted on April 15, 2021April 11, 2021

Rockingham, Washington’s Headquarters, 1783

George Washington slept here. After the commander in chief was summoned to Princeton, New Jersey during the summer of 1783, and finding no rooms for rent, certainly not anything sizeable enough to serve his needs, Washington, his wife Martha, their servants and enslaved persons, and a small company of soldiers managed to find a place […]

by Jett Conner