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“without even one decenting Colony”

235 years ago today Delaware’s Caesar Rodney wrote to his younger bother, Thomas: Philadelphia, July the 4th, 1776 Sir: I arrived in Congress (tho detained by thunder and rain) time enough to give my voice in the matter of Independence. … Continue reading

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