Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff

Discover what most people usually think about when hearing of Pennsylvania per their first thoughts during Colonial Times. Explore how another important event often comes to many people’s minds during late Eighteenth Century in Pennsylvania following Revolutionary War’s ending. Learn how one event from late August 1786 served as the ultimate catalyst behind one governing document’s eventual collapse to having it replaced with something else that’s still proven relevant nearly 240 Years later. Explore what Pennsylvania’s Delegates approved document wise come December 12, 1787. Agree if it’s very likely that our next book topic series discussion will focus on Pennsylvania during Colonial American Times. Get introduced to Pennsylvania’s Northeastern Region including a region known as the Wyoming Valley. Learn exactly where the name Wyoming originates from including its significance to Indian Tribes inhabiting the region. Understand exactly why June of 1788 proved to be such a vital month for the young United States including the same in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley Region. Learn how an official in Colonel Timothy Pickering got abducted, but how the incident itself wasn’t anything random. Get a brief introduction into Pennsylvania’s Geography from Colonial Times including Present Day. Discover the complexities behind who called Pennsylvania home from natives to outsiders and how different peoples ultimately competed with one another for territorial land rights. Understand how hardships were everywhere when Europeans came to settle in the New World. Agree if it’s fair to say that the young United States Nation was very fragile after Revolutionary War’s end which included individuals’ actions against people of official status rank like Colonel Timothy Pickering.

Explore how members of Congress best decided on going about punishing Doctor Church. Determine whether Dr. Church stayed in Massachusetts or went to a neighboring colony for imprisonment. Learn if Doctor Church himself actually wrote to Congress come very beginning of 1776. Learn if Doctor Church’s father was still living during the time of his son’s imprisonment. Go behind the scenes and explore Sarah Church’s letter request involving a potential prisoner exchange. Learn if anyone in Boston higher up opposed the idea behind a prisoner exchange. Discover if in fact Dr. Church himself stayed confined to a jail for the duration of 1777. Find out what the Massachusetts House voted in favor of involving Dr. Church come early January 1778. Go behind the scenes and discover what took place around mid February 1778 pertaining to Dr. Church being onboard sloop Welcome. Receive an in depth analysis into how Sarah Church went about managing to keep herself afloat in the wake of her husband’s deportation. Learn everything significant about the 1778 Massachusetts Banishment Act including just how many people from the Bay State were forced out. Determine what became of Dr. John Morgan whom replaced Dr. Church. Discover what happened to Mary Wenwood after having confessed to General Washington about who the author himself was per ciphered letter. Learn firsthand whether or not Dr. Benjamin Church ever made it to his exiled destination. Agree if it’s fair to say George Washington ought to be viewed as the founding father of American Counterintelligence. Go behind the scenes and debate just how many particular reasons there might’ve been behind why Dr. Church betrayed the American cause for Independence from England.

Explore what General Washington conducted come October 3,1775 from a meeting standpoint involving Doctor Church. Discover what else got uncovered per Dr. Church’s ciphered letter. Learn how Dr. Church appeared before General Washington as well as other high ranking officers on October 4. Determine if in fact Dr. Church himself confessed to being the author of the ciphered letter brought before him. Find out whether Church himself went as far as providing an excuse for actions taken. Agree if Washington conferred with all other war council members behind Dr. Church’s egregious conduct. Go behind the scenes and learn fundamental significance into Articles of War that were enacted by Congress come June 30,1775. Agree if Articles 28 & 51 are closely linked to the actions committed by Dr. Church. Discover when Washington’s report to Congress regarding Dr. Church’s actions reached Philadelphia. Get an idea behind how delegates from Continental Congress reacted once having learned about Doctor Church’s improper conduct. Learn how Massachusetts Delegates in cousins John & Samuel Adams first initially reacted to the secret letter written by Doctor Church. Agree if both cousins at first chose not to rush to any quick judgment, but yet demanded concrete physical proof. Discover if one of Washington’s officers got tasked with having to write a letter to John Adams about Dr. Church’s egregious conduct. Learn if Congress went about finding a replacement right away for Dr. Church. Discover firsthand if the news behind confirming Dr. Church being a spy heavily disturbed John Adams. Learn how John’s correspondence via letters to wife Abigail made him very suspicious in general about sending letters going forward. Discover what information Abigail inquired about regarding husband John’s relationship to the disgraced Dr. Church.

Learn if Dr. Church came into contact with a woman whom remembered him not long after he had returned to Massachusetts from Philadelphia. Figure out what made this encounter rather interesting from a secretive perspective. Get introduced to the term cipher. Learn how John Fleeming was connected to Dr. Church including a skeleton of Dr. Church’s that comes out around late July 1775. Discover how Mary Wenwood is linked with Dr. Church including any particular high level task he assigned her to perform. Find out just how many years Benjamin Church had spent studying overseas in England to become a doctor. Agree if it’s fair to say Dr. Church became so overwhelmed with inquiries regarding care of soldiers that he thought about resigning. Determine if Church himself was given a leave of absence from the Continental Army. Discover who exactly had possession of the ciphered letter come September 1775 including an understanding behind its severity. Find out how Mary Wenwood was viewed by men of higher rank in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Learn what happened to Mary Wenwood come late September after enduring multiple hours of interrogation. Learn if her interrogation brought down Doctor Benjamin Church. Agree if there was more than one individual skilled in the practice of deciphering especially following Dr. Church’s falling out. Determine exactly how many groups of decipherers worked on breaking down Doctor Church’s ciphered letter. Go behind the scenes and learn everything there is possible about just how sensitive Dr. Church’s letter truly was. Learn exactly what kind of cipher Church himself used per the letter written.

Explore significance behind Congress’s decision to appoint George Washington as Commander-In-Chief of the newly created Continental Army. Learn who accompanied George Washington from Philadelphia to Massachusetts. Discover whom Washington and his colleague came into contact with once reaching Springfield, Massachusetts. Get an understanding behind what Washington himself underwent after arriving into Massachusetts early July 1775. Go behind the scenes and understand why Dr. Church and other committee members were so adamant on having troops defend Massachusetts Sea Coast. Determine exactly where General Washington stood on the matter of defending Massachusetts Sea Coast. Understand significance behind July 27,1775, involving Dr. Church from a medical promotion standpoint including what he does upon arrival into Cambridge. Get introduced to Doctors Lemuel Hayward & William Aspinwall including their medical staffing challenges as well as promises made to both men by Dr. Church himself. Discover exactly what made Dr. Aspinwall unique from a medical practitioners standpoint including whom he studied under. Find out just how many patients Doctors Aspinwall & Hayward tended to from May 10 into Mid October 1775 including where their position status’s stood around September. Determine if General Washington himself had a hand in assisting Doctors Hayward & Aspinwall with their promotion dilemmas. Go behind the scenes and explore how one letter of Doctor Church’s got handled by multiple person’s with end destination being Boston.

Explore what William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth, encouraged General Thomas Gage to pursue come August 1774. Understand true significance behind letter obtained by British Leaders under General Gage come March 3,1775. Determine Doctor Church’s role behind this letter. Discover what Doctor Church reported to the British come March 26, 1775 involving Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Learn if a letter from April 11,1775, eight days before Battles of Lexington & Concord, contained information involving potential involvement from neighboring New England Colonies. Figure out one possible way which Dr. Church managed to get his reports into Boston. Learn just how powerful the committee for which Dr. Church got added to come April 7,1775, truly was. Discover exactly what Paul Revere noticed about Dr. Church the day after Battles of Lexington & Concord. Determine how Dr. Church himself truly felt following British Army’s debacle at Concord. Go behind the scenes and receive an in depth analysis report as to how Dr. Church made it into Boston just after Battles of Lexington and Concord. Agree if General Gage was very anxious in obtaining more information after having met directly with Dr. Church come late April 1775. Get an understanding as to what Dr. Church warned General Gage about per a committee report dated from May 12,1775. Learn how Dr. Church went to Philadelphia. Learn who exactly from the Massachusetts Colony went to England and provided British Newspaper sources the battle outcomes at Lexington and Concord including total number of days it took to reach England.

Discover whom Dr. Church engaged in having friendships with on the British side prior to 1770. Learn if Dr. Church’s friends questioned his presence around these particular individuals. Find out exactly what Dr. Church pursued in 1768 that was considered lavish. Discover which British Military Officer became the first to have bought into Dr. Church’s loyalty. Agree if it’s fair to say that Doctor Church’s never ending quest for fame had to do with his wanting to serve on every Whig Committee possible. Get an in depth analysis behind just how bad the Boston Port Act of 1774 truly was. Go behind the scenes and receive a timeline of all committee activities which Dr. Church himself served on per year 1774, Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Learn what post Henry Knox still retained come November 1774 and how he raised the flag regarding Committee of Intelligence Affairs personal safety. Discover what specific legal action the Massachusetts Provincial Congress took come December 5,1774. Agree if Dr. Church himself would become just as active in serving on committees once Second Interim Congress convened come February 7,1775, like he did the year before. Determine the significance about one particular letter involving Dr. Church around March 9,1775. Discover what the letter dated between March 8-9,1775, entailed information wise.

Get an understanding behind what the 1767 Townshend Acts aimed to accomplish including those specific items which were greatly affected. Learn who had been serving as Commander In Chief of British Forces in North America since 1763. Go behind the scenes and discover what unraveled on October 1,1768. Discover who replaces Massachusetts Royal Governor Francis Bernard come July 31,1769. Learn if Governor Bernard’s replacement is no stranger to mob violence. Explore what had been pursued by more than 60 Merchants come August 1768, one year prior to Governor Bernard stepping down from his post. Get introduced to Ebenezer Richardson & Theophilus Lillie including where both men stood regarding the 1768 Boston Non Importation Agreement. Learn what unfolded on February 22, 1770 involving Richardson, Lillie, and hard core radicals. Agree if it’s fair to say that what occurred on February 22, 1770 played a contributing factor behind the evening of March 5,1770. Receive an in depth analysis behind what occurred on March 5,1770 involving Boston’s Townspeople and British Troops from 29th Regiment of Foot. Learn how Dr. Benjamin Church was involved following the aftermath of what happened on March 5. Determine if Dr. Church had served on a committee which issued request seeking troop withdrawal from town of Boston. Figure out which Forefather chose to defend the accused British Soldiers from 29th Regiment of Foot including his personal reasons for having done so. Discover whether the jury found all 8 soldiers accused of murder to have been guilty for those charges brought against them including their lead commanding officer. Learn who Parliament was trying to save from total financial ruin a few years after the infamous Boston Massacre Incident. Discover what unraveled on December 16,1773 including the fallout that followed three months later.

Learn what year Benjamin Church Junior was born including where he first grew up in the New England Region. Discover where he attended school as a young child and whether the school itself remains in existence today. Learn what happened to Benjamin Church school wise come the year 1750. Find out exactly when Church Junior first got apprenticed in the medical profession including whether he had the means to study medicine overseas. Go behind the scenes and learn how Boston as a town dealt with a smallpox epidemic come start of March 1764. Learn how Doctor Church himself played a pivotal role in administering smallpox inoculations to the greater general public. Discover what event took place on October 7, 1763, which went about having a negative impact on Britain’s 13 North American Colonies. Agree if England had been faced with a large deficit in the wake of the 7 Years War ending. Discover what Parliament passed into law come April 5, 1764, while Dr. Church was administering smallpox inoculations to greater public in Boston. Get introduced to 1764 Currency Act and how it negatively impacted the colonists. Get an in depth analysis behind Parliament’s passage of the infamous 1765 Stamp Act. Learn about Andrew Oliver and why he ultimately became such an unpopular figure in the Massachusetts Colony during time of upheaval involving Stamp Act. Get an overview of the differences between Whigs & Tories including where Dr. Church himself stood. Agree if the 1765 Stamp Act didn’t last very long on the books. Go behind the scenes and explore how another piece of legislation enacted by Parliament in 1765 fell under the famous phrase: “taxation without representation”.