The Battle of Rhode Island Association

Author’s Talk – The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America

The Society of the Cincinnati Anderson House 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC, DC, United States

  The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. Jane Welborn Spurgin was a patriot who welcomed Gen. Nathanael Greene to her home and aided the Continental forces. Her husband was a loyalist and an officer fighting for King George III in […]

Author’s Talk – King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

The Society of the Cincinnati Anderson House 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC, DC, United States

  John Hancock is often associated with the radical commencement of the Revolution and his audacious signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, but his politics were not nearly as bold as they may have seemed. Throughout the Revolution, he frustrated both patriots and loyalists alike but remained the most popular and powerful […]

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