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RESOLUTION NO. 06-089
A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2006
AS "PATRIOT'S DAY" IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY,
FLORIDA
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, has
made the following determinations:
1. Late in the evening of April 18, 1775, three men went to the Old North
Church in Boston, Sexton of the church Robert Newman, and at least two members
of the Sons of Liberty Captain John Pulling and Captain Thomas Barnard.
2. Captain John Pulling, a vestryman of the church, demanded the keys
to the church from Robert Newman and Newman gave the keys to him.
3. It is unknown who actually held the lanterns in the belfry, but the act
of Robert Newman giving the church keys to Captain John Pulling saved Newman
when he was arrested the following day.
4. At least four men were waiting for the signal, the Sons of Liberty knew
the British Orders, Go to Lexington and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams for
Treason, and continue on to Concord and destroy a cache of arms stored there.
5. The men we know that were waiting to ride were Paul Revere, William
Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott and Richard Devens. They were probably more either
spaced along the main routes out of Boston and or waiting with the four we know.
They rode in the night stopping to notify leaders of the Sons of Liberty, members of
Committees of Safety and Captains of local militias.
6. In the morning there would be thousands of armed citizens gathered
on village greens from Portsmouth, NH., south to Providence RI. and West to
Worcester, MA., and Hartford, CN. The most famous would be at Lexington, MA.
where on the green the shot heard around the world was fired and the second
most the bridge at Concord, where the British were turned back to Boston.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Sf. Lucie County, Florida:
1. This Board does hereby proclaim April 19, 2006, as "PATRIOT'S DAY" in
St. Lucie County, Florida.
2. This Board recognizes the men who put everything on the line so that
we could be free; and urges the citizens of St. Lucie County to remember April 19,
2006 as Patriot's Day.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 11 th day of April, 2006.
ATTEST:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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