American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Continental Congress (September 1774) passed the Articles of Association, as recorded in the Journals of Congress by Secretary Charles Thomson: <Article X. That the late Act of Parliament for establishing...the French Laws in that extensive country now called Quebec, is dangerous in an extreme degree to the Protestant Religion and to the civil rights and liberties of all America; and therefore as men and protestant Christians, we are indispensably obliged to take all proper measures for our security.> 1774CC008 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1774CC008. William J....

Continental Congress (September 7, 1774) as recorded in the Journals of the Continental Congress, invited Rev. Mr. Duche' to open the first Congress in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, with prayer: <Wednesday, September 7, 1774, 9 o'clock a.m. Agreeable to the resolve of yesterday, the meeting was opened with prayers by the Rev. Mr. Duche'. Voted, That the thanks of Congress be given to Mr. Duche'...for performing divine Service, and for the excellent prayer, which he composed and delivered on the occasion.> 1774CC002 In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams described that prayer: <When the Congress met, Mr. Cushing made...

Continental Congress (September 6, 1774) made their first official act a call for prayer, as recorded in the Journals of the Continental Congress, after just receiving the news that the British troops had attacked Boston: <Tuesday, September 6, 1774. Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. Duche' be desired to open the Congress tomorrow morning with prayers, at the Carpenter's Hall, at 9 o'clock.> 1774CC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1774CC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Continental Congress, September 6, 1774. The Journals of the Continental Congress 1774- 1789...

Fairfax Resolves (July 18, 1774): <At a General Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Fairfax, at the Court House in the Town of Alexandria, on Monday, the 18th day of July, 1774: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esquire, Chairman, and ROBERT HARRISON, Gentleman, Clerk. RESOLVED, That this Colony and Dominion of Virginia cannot be considered as a conquered country, and, if it was, that the present inhabitants are the descendants, not of the conquered, but of the conquerors. That the same was not settled at the national expense of England, but at the private expense of the adventurers,...

Virginia Proclamation (May 24, 1774) Thomas Jefferson drafted a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer Resolution, which was introduced on the floor of the Virginia House of Burgesses by Robert Carter Nicholas, Treasurer. The Resolution was approved with virtually no comment: <This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension of the great dangers, to be derived to british America, from the hostile Invasion of the City of Boston, in our Sister Colony of Massachusetts bay, whose commerce and harbour are, on the first Day of June next, to be stopped by an Armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said...