Paper mâché tray. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Lemuel Haynes (1753—1833) fought in the Revolutionary War and was ordained in 1785. He became America’s first black minister of a white congregation when he became minister of the West Parish of Rutland, Vermont, where he remained for thirty years.
In 1775 the British government was not the limited monarchy we know today. The King was in charge of the executive branch of the government and his duties and powers corresponded, roughly, to those the President now handles in the United States. ... Political parties as we understand them today had yet to be born. England was split into four or five factions,
some revolving around a noble Lord such as Marquis of Rockingham, some around a class (the country squires) and roughly on-third of Parliament around the King who, through his executive power, had innumerable jobs, from cabinet post to lucrative sinecures, to dispense among those who supported him.