HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-072 RESOLUTION N0.11-072
A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2011 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 ofthe 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, 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. There 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 risked everything so that we could be free, and
proclaims April 19, 2011 as "PATRIOT'S DAY" in St. Lucie County, Florida.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 19`h day of April, 2011.
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