| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
This is it: the country’s 250th anniversary. The day the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves to be free and independent states—defying the mighty British Empire and birthing “a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
But July 4, 1776, is just one of many landmark events of the American Revolution. The article below collects other dates important to the Patriot cause— those both before and after the signing of the Declaration of Independence—so you can keep the celebration going.
We follow up that timeline with two articles on researching colonial and early American ancestors. After all, 1776 was just the beginning of the United States as an entity—We, the People, were here long before then.
Playing “Stars and Stripes Forever” on repeat,
— Andrew, Editor of Family Tree Magazine
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