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1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone.The show is based on the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, telling a story of the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to vote for American independence and to sign the document.
John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. [1] He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congress , having served as the second president of the Second Continental Congress and the seventh ...
This is a list of plays and musicals about the American Revolution. Valley Forge -1934 play by Maxwell Anderson; Ben Franklin in Paris – 1964 musical by Sidney Michaels; 1776 – 1969 Broadway musical; Composed by Sherman Edwards; The Ruckus at Machias – 1976 play by Richard Sewell; A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine – 2009 stage play by ...
1776 is a 1972 American historical musical drama film directed by Peter H. Hunt and written by Peter Stone, based on his book for the 1969 Broadway musical of the same name, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. [4]
Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS stations until October 10, 2004.
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.He is best known for his role in Paul Revere's "midnight ride" to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts, of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Thomas Hancock (July 17, 1703 – August 1, 1764) was an American merchant and politician best known for being the uncle of Founding Father and statesman John Hancock.The son of an Anglican preacher, Thomas Hancock rose from obscurity to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in colonial Massachusetts, accumulating a 70,000 pound fortune over the course of his lifetime and becoming the ...
Hancock's large, flamboyant signature became iconic, and John Hancock emerged in the United States as an informal synonym for "signature". [20] Future presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were among the signatories. Edward Rutledge (age 26) was the youngest signer and Benjamin Franklin (age 70) the oldest.