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History of Parish of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, Pa. |
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| 1764 - |
Stamp Act passed. King's proclamation of which torn down by mob in New Berne, North Carolina. |
| 1765 - |
Fort Bedford, Penn'a, captured from British forces (the first British fort taken in America). |
| 1770 - |
Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (Prince-Priest and Apostle of the Alleghenies), born at the Hague, Holland. |
| 1771 - |
May 16, first battle of the Revolution fought at Alamance Creek, North Carolina, between Royalist forces under Governor William Tryon and patriot "Regulators" under Harmon Husband, a Quaker who ran away. Regulators defeated. |
| 1772 - |
"Regulators" from North Carolina, after the battle of Alamance, emigrated to the west of Cumberland mountains and founded the "State of Franklin," real "Cradle of Liberty" in the United States, over which British rule never extended, now merged into the State of Tennessee - the Mecklenberg, N. C., Declaration of Independence from which Jefferson is supposed to have drawn his inspiration of the immortal Declaration. |
| 1775 - |
Moylan's Riflemen, from Maryland, assisted Col. Prescott at the battle of Bunker (Breed's Hill), June 17. |
| 1776 - |
Louis XVI. of France sent 1,000,000 livres to assist Americans. |
| 1777 - |
Louis XVI. sent another 1,000,000 livres and induced Spain to send a like amount - Adamses ambushed near Elton, and Samuel Adams killed. |
| 1778 - |
Capt. John Barry (the Father of the American navy) raised the Stars and Stripes over the ship Alliance. Capt. John Paul Jones captured the British frigate Serapis near the English coast - As Lafayette's French troops marched up the streets of Boston the Assembly of Massachusetts repealed the penal statute against Catholics and Quakers - Many emigrants from Ireland joined the army of Washington. Felix Skelly and his cousin, a Mrs. Elder, captured by Indians in Blacklog Valley. Skelly escaped at Kittanning on the Allegheny River and joined Washington's army. |
| 1783 - |
Hannah Cable, afterwards Mrs. Coleman, of Indiana County, born near the present town of Wilmore. |
| 1787 - |
McGuires build cabins near Loretto - Galbraith road laid out. |
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