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Title: Annapolis, history of ye ancient city and its public buildings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tilghman, Oswald Maryland. Governor, 1912- (Phillips L. Goldsborough)
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Publisher: (Annapolis, Md. : Press of the Advertiser-Republican
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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th day of March, 1772, bythe last colonial Governor, Robert Eden.On his striking the stone with a mallet,as was the custom, tradition informs usthere was a severe clap of thunder froma clear sky. It was thought to have beenan omen of the impending Revolution.This omen was realized, for two yearslater, when this building was ready foroccupancy, it was a revolutionary bodythat first assembled within its walls.They styled themselves the Associationof Freemen. Ninety-one deputies fromall the counties, upon the calling of theroll, on May 31st, 1774, answered totheir names and organized a Convention,with Matthew Tilghman, of Talbot coun-ty — The Patriarch of the Colony —presiding. It was a most distinguishedbody of the colonial gentry of all Mary-land, who evinced their patriotism bypassing a series of resolutions denyingthe right of the British Parliament totax their American colonies without rep-resentation, demanding the repeal of theduty laid on tea, and offering assistance Thirteen
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Fourteen to the then blockaded port of Boston.They addressed a letter to the VirginiaCommittee of Correspondence proposinga Congress of delegates from all the 13colonies. This Congress met in Phila-delphia on September 5th, 1774, at Car-penters Hall, and Maryland was thefirst of the colonies to elect delegates toit. The Continental Congress met againon May 10th, 1775, and on June 15th,1775, Colonel George Washington, ofVirginia, was nominated by a Marylanddeputy, Thomas Johnson, Jr., Comman-der-in-Chief of tlie Continental Forces.A copy of the resolutions promulgatedby the Association of Freemen of Mary-land, with the autograph signatnres ofthe signers appended thereto, hangs uponthe wall of the Old Senate Chamber. Fifteen

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