Hannah Hickok, daughter of David and Abigail Hickok, loved chocolate. Hannah was a teenager when she wrote her 1784–1786 Journal. She often mentioned eating chocolate for breakfast, which was not unusual at that time. Central and South America were the … Continue reading
Hannah Hickok, daughter of David and Abigail Johnson Hickok, was eight years old when her uncle Asa Hickok first enlisted in 1775. Scattered throughout Hannah’s 1840s Journals, are her memories from 1783. Hannah’s Father David had a few entries in … Continue reading
Above painting: The defeated British army marches between the Americans on the right, led by General George Washington, and the French on the left, led by General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau. At the center, on horseback, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, Washington’s second-in-command, … Continue reading
John Trumbull, an artist, was the second personal assistant (aide-de-camp) to Washington during the Revolutionary War. After the war was over, Mr. Trumbull painted a series on American history. In 1817 the U.S. Congress commissioned Mr. Trumbull to paint the … Continue reading
…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, … Continue reading
1781 French Troupes in Southbury * In June 1781, after several planning sessions with George Washington, General Count de Rochambeau and his French Troops (divided into four divisions) left Rhode Island to join forces with Washington in what is now Greenburgh, … Continue reading
On October 27, 1776, David Hickok wrote that at South Britain’s Sunday Meeting, “every able-bodied man in the Train Band” was ordered “to march to Stamford forthwith.” Monday a battle took place in White Plains, New York, some fifty miles … Continue reading
Asa Hickok, 1775: “In the fall of the year the men at Ticonderoga were attacked with fever and dysentery and many of them died. My brother Reuben was very sick. (He died two years later.) “I was taken sick with … Continue reading
The Colonists bought smuggled Dutch tea rather than pay for more expensive tea from the East India Company. So in 1767 Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain and gave the East … Continue reading
“My animals include two cows, a calf, a yoke of oxen, a horse, a two-year old colt, two swine, and thirteen sheep, which I sheared in May. “My neighbors, my father, and my brothers borrow my oxen for work on … Continue reading
