tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1101858045810451427..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Remembering and Restoring the Edmund Fowle HouseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-2592419854184561632008-07-12T17:40:00.000-05:002008-07-12T17:40:00.000-05:00Many other interesting events occured in the Edmun...Many other interesting events occured in the Edmund Fowle House during the early part of the American Revolution, the signing of the first Treaty on July 19, 1776 and the reading of the the Declaration of Independence from the second floor window of the council chambers on July 18, 1776. Which leads me to invite One & All to:<BR/> <B>DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE<BR/>FIRST PROCLAIMED IN WATERTOWN <BR/>18 JULY 1776</B><BR/><BR/><B>Watertown, 18 July 1776 -</B> A copy of the Declaration of Independence, having been sent by John Hancock from Philadelphia, is proclaimed to the populace from a window of the Council Chamber followed by rousing cheers and hearty toasts. <BR/> <I>“We like it well,”</I> observed Ambrose Var, delegate from the Mikmaq of Nova Scotia in town to negotiate a treaty of alliance with the new United States.<BR/><BR/><B>Watertown, 18 July 2008 -</B> Now that the Historical Society of Watertown has succeeded in the restoration of the Edmund Fowle House, once the seat of Massachusetts’s executive branch at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence will once again be read from a window of the newly re-discovered Council Chamber. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 Friday the 18th of July in front of the Fowle House, 28 Marshall St. Watertown. Local colonial re-enactors and Native American guests will be on hand and the public is welcome to attend this anniversary of Watertown’s first Independence Day.<BR/> <BR/><BR/><BR/> <A>Light refreshments will follow the ceremony plus a look at the <BR/> Council Chamber (as long as daylight lasts).</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com