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HomeMy WebLinkAbout15-057RESOLUTION NO. 15-057 A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 19, 2015 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. 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. 3. 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. 4. The men we know that were waiting to ride were Paul Revere, William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott and Richard Devens. There were probably more 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. 5. 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, bythe 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 proclaim April 19, 2015 as "PATRIOT'S DAY" in St. Lucie County, Florida. PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 21" day of April 2015. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA BY: Chair APPROVED A1SX0 FORM—AND CORRECTNESS BY: County A