Tag: William Bull

Posted on July 5, 2021July 3, 2021

North Carolina’s Response to the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Rumors roared throughout the Colonies in the spring of 1775. From Watertown, Massachusetts, with an earnest pen, a letter was taken down at 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, April 19, 1775. Reports had been sent to New London, Rhode Island, and were beginning to extend south to the Carolinas, that, “action had happened between the […]

by Travis Copeland

Posted on March 24, 2021March 20, 2021

John Rutledge: President of South Carolina, 1776–1778

John Rutledge was born into Charleston’s elite in 1739 and by April 1775 had established himself as a defender of English rights in the colonies. A British-educated lawyer, he served in South Carolina’s General Assembly and represented the colony in the Stamp Act Congress, the First Continental Congress, and the early days of the Second […]

by Eric Sterner