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A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2013
AS ~~PATRIOT'S DAY" IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
WHEREASthe 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.
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4. At least four men were waiting for the signal, the Sons of Liberty knew the ~'
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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. a
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, 2013 as'~PATRIOT'S DAY" in St. Lucie
County, Florida.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 2"d day of April, 2013.
ATT,~~fi BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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