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Blacksmith and pioneer Captain John Ames began making metal shovels in America in 1774. [7] Ames underwent a merger in 1931 including Baldwin Tool Works of Parkersburg, West Virginia, the Ames Shovel and Tool Company of North Easton, Massachusetts; the Wyoming Shovel Works of Wyoming, Pennsylvania; Hubbard & Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Pittsburgh Shovel Co. of Pittsburgh ...
Undated woodcut. The Ames Manufacturing Company has its origins in a factory established in 1774 [citation needed] in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by the Ames family. Brothers Nathan P. Ames Jr. and James T. Ames moved their tool and cutlery business to a new industrial town on the Chicopee River near Springfield, Massachusetts in 1829. [2]
Active: 1774–present: Country: United States of America: Branch: Army: Type: Light Cavalry Unit: Size: Company: Garrison/HQ: 23rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eighth Company of the First Battalion of Maryland, Samuel Smith's, Baltimore, 1776 [19] [20] Ninth Company of Light Infantry, Annapolis, 1776 [21] [22] First Independent Maryland Company, Charles and Calvert Counties, 1776 [23] Second Independent Company, Somerset County , 1776 [24] Third Independent Maryland Company, Worcester County, 1776 [25]
On 27 August 1774, Richard Henderson, a judge from North Carolina, [1] organized a land speculation company with a number of other prominent North Carolinians. Originally called Richard Henderson and Company, the company name was first changed to the Louisa Company, and finally to the Transylvania Company on January 6, 1775.
About 60,000 Loyalists migrated to other British territories in Canada and elsewhere, but the great majority remained in the United States. With its victory in the American Revolution, the United States became the first constitutional republic in world history founded on the consent of the governed and the rule of law.
1774 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1774 ...
Completed in 1775, [4] the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and is still privately owned by the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the country's oldest extant craft guild. The First Continental Congress met at the building in 1774 and passed and signed the Continental Association.