I find it fascinating and curious that we celebrate when we *declared/voted
for *independence, instead of when we actually achieved it - the end of the
war.  I suspect very few people know when the war ended.

Hilary Henkin
City of Los Angeles Records Center and Archives

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Jones, Virginia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Happy 2nd of July?
> Did you know it was the Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee who introduced
> a motion calling for the colonies’ independence from Great Britain at the
> June 7, 1776 meeting of the Continental Congress?
>
>  On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of Lee’s resolution
> for independence in a near-unanimous vote.   On that day, John Adams wrote
> to his wife Abigail that July 2, “will be celebrated, by succeeding
> Generations, as the great anniversary Festival” and that the celebration
> should include “Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and
> Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”
>
> On July 4th, the Congress formally adopted the Declaration of
> Independence. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July
> 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth
> of American independence.
>
>  John Adams believed that July 2nd was the correct date on which to
> celebrate the birth of American independence,  and would reportedly turn
> down invitations to appear at July 4th events in protest.   Adams and
> Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826--the 50th anniversary of the
> adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
>
>  (Source: www.history.com)
>
> Ginny Jones
> (Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
> Records Manager
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> Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
> Newport News, VA
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