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“In the Evening the Effigy, representing the King of Great Britain, was carted through the Town, to the no small Mirth of the numerous Spectators, afterwards thrown into a Fire made for that Purpose." Commemoration of July 29, 1776 reading of the Declaration in Baltimore. No effigies today however.

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“Black Catholics formed the Society of the Holy Family, a center of Catholic & Black religious life in Baltimore.” @baylorhistory.bsky.social PhD student Philip Chivily published this lovely research piece in America - The Jesuit Review. Nice work, Phil! www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

A rare look at Black Catholic life before the Civil War

Even if the Society of the Holy Family did not survive the antebellum period, it showed how a West African-rooted Catholicism could thrive in the United States.

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July 5, 1776: The first newspaper account of the Declaration of Independence appears—in German. The item is printed in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote (Pennsylvania State-Courier), on the bottom of the first column of the second page. 1/5

The first German translation of the Declaration, which later appeared in the Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote

On July 4, 1776........... Captain Nathaniel Smith (of the First Company of Maryland Matrosses) completed an inventory of the cannons at Fort Whetstone and Fells Point. [Document image courtesy of the wonderful Maryland State Archives, where this manuscript is held.]

18th-century handwritten manuscript that reads: 

Invoice of Cannons Taken the 4th July 1776 at the Fort at Whetstone Point, & Fells Point, viz.—
At the Fort belonging to the Province
9  18 pounders on Carriges
19  9 ditto ditto
2  12 ditto ditto
2  6 ditto ditto
3  4 ditto ditto
3  3 ditto ditto
1  9lb Private property Unfit for Service
1  2 ditto... Good.

At Fells Point belonging to the Province
1  9 pounder on Carrige
1  9 ditto not on Carrige
7  9 ditto not on ditto. & Unfit for Service, of Messrs. Hughes First Casting.
2  3 ditto. Good. Private property on Carriges

Sirs
Above you have Agreeable to your Request of the 3d Inst. a True Acct. of the Canon at the Fort, & Baltimore Town.
I am Sirs,
Your Mo. Hble. Servt.,
Nathl. Smith
July 4th 1776