Birthdays
Record of the Month! On April 19, 1775, hostilities between the Empire of Great Britain and the American Colonies opened with the battles of Lexington and Concord. The hostilities were the result of the repeated tyrannical actions taken by the British Crown and Parliament in a bid to impose harsher colonial rule over the American colonies. Just over a year after hostilities had been opened, on July 4, 1776, the colonies formally articulated and declared their independence with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, immortalizing that date as the official birthday of the United States. For the month of July, we are featuring a few different records that also share July as their birthday month. The first and oldest record displayed here is dated July 1, 1810, and is a filing record from the Supreme Court of Ohio, which is held in the Licking County Records & Archives Center. The record itself describes the Licking County Clerk of Courts filing a transcript with the