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RESOLUTION NO. 07-146
A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2007
AS "PATRIOT'S DAY" IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY,
FLORIDA
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners ofSt. 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. Samuei 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, New Hampshire, south to
Providence, Rhode Island and West to Worcester, Massachusetts, and Hartford,
Connecticut, The most famous would be at Lexington, Massachusetts 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
St, Lucie County, Florida:
1, This Board does hereby proclaim April 19, 2007, as "PATRIOT'S DAY" in
Sf. 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
19,2007 as Patriot's Day,
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