Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus last week the dangerous enterprise of American independence began. Besides Hancock, none of the members of Congress signed the Declaration ?that will perhaps come later and may depend somewhat on the American fortunes in the war: if they sign, the members could be hanged for treason...
Meanwhile, England's General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British regulars and Hessians, as well as swarms of Indians, is massing troops at St. John's for a march into New York. On the once promising northern front, the only hopeful sign this week was the sound of axes at Skenesborough. There work has begun on the tiny fleet with which Arnold, now a brigadier general, still hopes to challenge the British. The year's military effort in Canada has until now at least kept the Indians from being loosed for frontier raiding in New York...
...Gunsmith Gilbert Forbes, proprietor of The Sign of the Sportsman at 18 Broad Way, admitted receiving Tryon's money through Matthews and sending one shipment of 20 guns to the British. He claimed, however, that nearly half the guns had been defective and that the real purpose of the money had been to recruit Continental soldiers to the British cause...
...about the dullness of George and his court. The King has no small talk, and for want of anything better to say, he is likely to end half his conversations with a hearty "What? What?" and the other half with a "Hey? Hey?" Still, George is pleased by every sign of his personal popularity with ordinary Englishmen-at least until the start of the war-and he enjoys the nickname, based on his love of rural outings, "Farmer George...
...showed him some of his works. "They were miserably done," Peale recalled later. "Had they been better, perhaps they would not have led ... to the idea of attempting anything in that way." He got some instruction from his neighbor, the established portraitist John Hessilius, and advertised as a sign painter. In 1765, pressed by his Tory creditors for both his debts and his patriotic views, Peale fled Maryland with the sheriff literally at his door. He took advantage of his exile to study briefly in Boston with Copley himself. On his return, the Annapolis gentry were so impressed with...