Names of Those Who Participated in the Boston Tea Party

Here are the names of those who participated in the Boston Tea Party. When we went to the museum, each person received a card with the name of a person on it, that was part of the Boston Tea Party episode. The name I got was 'John Crane' and according to the story, I got knocked out from having a chest of tea fall on my head! People thought I was dead, but I was only unconscious. Paul Revere was part of the Boston Tea Party? Interesting.

Mary Goose - Related to Mother Goose - Buried in Granary Burying Ground, Boston

I know where Mary Goose is buried. Actually, the story goes like this; Mary Balstan was married to Isaac Goose and they had children, but Mary died. She was the one buried in the Granary Burying Ground. Isaac remarried a woman named Elizabeth and they had some children. One daughter was named Elizabeth as well. This daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet and they had a child. The grandmother, Elizabeth Goose, was ecstatic, and sang ditties and came up with melodies for children to sing to her grandson. Some people got irritated at her singing, but her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, took her songs and put them in a book. The book was published many years later and we know them as the original Mother Goose rhymes. But Mary Goose is the one who is buried in Granary Burying Ground, not Elizabeth. So you can see Mary's grave if you visit there. Her claim to fame is that she was married to the man who later married the real Mother Goose.
    We visited the Granary Burying Ground in Boston last week. A few other famous people were buried there. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and those killed in the Boston Massacre are all buried in Granary Burying Ground. We found out the Mary Goose is also buried here. Here is a web site that explains who she is and what she did: Celebrate Boston - Mother Goose

Fourth of July Trivia

Happy Fourth of July! There are a lot of facts involved with this holiday! Here is a trivia question for you.
Three presidents died on the 4th of July. Do you know who they were?

I am going to copy and paste this article from a web site that discusses some facts about the Fourth of July. http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/5-surprising-fourth-july-facts-025521346.html

1. John Adams thought Americans would celebrate July 2

The Continental Congress officially declared its freedom from British rule on July 2, 1776, the day that John Adams wrongly thought would be commemorated by future generations. July Fourth, meanwhile, marks the day Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. As copies of the declaration spread across the colonies, celebrations kicked off. Americans lit bonfires, fired celebratory shots from their guns, rang bells, and took down symbols of the British monarchy. At that point, the Boston Tea Party and the Battles of Lexington and Concord had already happened, but the American Revolutionary War wouldn't end until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.
2. Three presidents died on the Fourth of July
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away within hours of each other on July 4, 1826. The two had been political rivals and then friends later in life, and both signed the Declaration of Independence. James Monroe, the nation's fifth president, was the next U.S. leader to die, and he passed away on July 4, 1831. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, is the only U.S. chief to have been born on the Fourth of July. [Fabulous 4th of July Facts: The 13 Original Colonies]
3. Songs in today's patriotic canon don't have Revolutionary roots
Before the Revolution, "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by British military officers who mocked the unorganized and buckskin-wearing "Yankees" with whom they fought during the French and Indian War. Our national anthem didn't originate in the war for independence, either. The "Star Spangled Banner" is a poem Francis Scott Key wrote in 1814, when the British relentlessly attacked Baltimore's Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. It was later put to music and became the official national anthem in 1931.
4. The oldest celebration is in the smallest state
It took some time for the Independence Day parties to become the extravagant fireworks-filled spectacles they are today. Most celebrations didn't become regular until the 19th century, but the Bristol Fourth of July Parade in Bristol, R.I., claims to be the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration in the United States, held every year since 1785.
5. The number of Fourth of July revelers has increased by more than a hundredfold
Only 2.5 million people lived in the United States when the colonies first declared independence, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Today, the nation is much bigger than 13 wee states and it's more crowded, too. This estimated population on for July 4, 2013, is 316.2 million people.
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