The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . M i. i54 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. April another company, of fifty-nine men, all from Worcester, enlistedunder Capt. Jonas Hubbard. During the seven dark years that followed,this town never wavered in its devotion to the cause of liberty, and wasrepresented on many of the most important battle-fields, as well as at thesurrender of Yorktown, which terminated the struggle for , the 14th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence wasreceived. It was publicly read, for the first time on Massachusetts soil, from the porch ofth
The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . M i. i54 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. April another company, of fifty-nine men, all from Worcester, enlistedunder Capt. Jonas Hubbard. During the seven dark years that followed,this town never wavered in its devotion to the cause of liberty, and wasrepresented on many of the most important battle-fields, as well as at thesurrender of Yorktown, which terminated the struggle for , the 14th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence wasreceived. It was publicly read, for the first time on Massachusetts soil, from the porch ofthe Old SouthChurch, b yIsaiah Thomas,to the assem-bled Sunday ,after divine ser-vice, it wasread in thechurch. Meas-ures w ereadopted for aproper celebra-t i o n of theevent, and onthe Mondayfollowing, theearliest com-memoration ofthe occasion,since hallowedas the nationalanniversary,took place inthe town. W orcestercontinued to in-crease both insize and impor-tance duringthe first half ofthe present century, till, in 184S, having outgrown the
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