IT WAS 245 YEARS AGO TODAY -- CROTON'S CONNECTION TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE JULY 9, 1776

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Croton’s connection to the Declaration of Independence—245 years ago today!  COURTESY OF CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES:

On the afternoon of July 9, 1776, at the Court House in White Plains, Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt voted to approve the Declaration of Independence. He was one of eleven deputies from Westchester County at the meeting of “the Provincial Congress of the Province of New-YorK".  READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT https://crotonhistory.org/2013/07/05/resolved-unanimously-july-9-1776