1775: Subject or Citizen?

It’s 1775, and time to decide: Do you remain subject to the King or forge a new path as an independent citizen? While you ponder your path, you’ll get to talk many individuals to get their perspectives and experience period activities. Live musket firing demonstrations at 2:00 and 3:00pm.

Roving first-person interpreters:

• Virginia’s Last Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore
• Patrick Henry
• Anne Harrison Randolph, of Wilton
• London, enslaved young man (“owned” by the Quaker Pleasants family)

Reenactors:

• Soldiers from the British 64th Regiment on Foot
• Children from the Youth Virginia Regiment will be portraying Patriot militia
• Soldiers from 7th Virginia
• Tea merchant

Museum partners (Info booths):

• Preservation Virginia (John Marshall House)
• Virginia Museum of History & Culture
• St. John’s Church

Organizations:

• Henrico County Public Library
• Richmond Revolutionary War Roundtable
• St. George Royal Society
• Henrico County Historical Society
• Daughters of the American Revolution, Commonwealth Chapter

Activities:

• Live period music by Marshall & Company
• Historical games for kids
• Enroll in the 1775 militia
• 1775 exhibit
• Discovery Quest
• Hot cider and cookies

Demonstrations:

• Candle making
• Blacksmithing
• Spinning

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