Negative Space: Declaration of Independence
- The Battle of the Kegs
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The Battle of the Kegs took place on January 5 or 6, 1778. Soon after, Francis Hopkinson wrote this wonderful account of the debacle, including very personal details about the British General in charge!
- In the Course of Providence
- From the Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1826, page 3.
- No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive
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Adams and Jefferson both dying on the Jubilee was hailed as “a most singular coincidence… A more signal and impressive combination of circumstances is not to be found… Nothing so sublime could have been conceived by human thought… Who does not envy such a death after such a life?”
- Sources from the American Jubilee
- On July 4, 1826, as the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, sparking a long period of essays, orations, and exclamations about that “singular coincidence”.
