HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-077RESOLUTION NO. 10-077
A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2010,
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 vestrymanofthechurch, demanded the keystothechurch
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 Jahn Pulling saved Newman when he was arrested
the following day.
4. At least four men were waiting for the signal, the Sons of Liberty knewthe British
Orders, Go to Lexington and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams forTreason,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, 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, that this Board does hereby recognize the men who put everything on the line so
that we could be free, and proclaims April 19, 2010 as "PATRIOT'S DAY" in St. Lucie County,
Florida.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 13`h day of April, 2010.
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