29 June 2024

Joy.

Willard, Yankee Doodle, 1876


We Celebrated Independence here [Richmond] to the day by eating an Excellent dinner at Anderson’s Tavern and drinking a number of proper toasts. We had the Band of Music, the discharge of Cannon, colors flying, &c. &c., manifesting our joy.

James Currie, from a letter to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1786

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