Happy Meck Dec Day! This week's episode comes to you early in honor of the 246th anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, the first such declaration of any civic body in the American colonies in 1775. Take that, Jefferson.
SOURCES:
https://www.meckdec.org/declaration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg_Declaration_of_Independence
https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-revolution
https://www.ncpedia.org/sugar-creek-war
https://charlottetrailofhistory.org/
https://northcarolinagenealogy.org/mecklenburg/signers.htm
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1350010a/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25109813.pdf
https://www.cmstory.org/exhibits/mecklenburg-declaration-independence-all-about-declaration/all-about-declaration
https://charlottemuseum.org/the-evidence-against-the-mecklenburg-declaration/
https://charlottemuseum.org/captain-jacks-ride-to-philadelphia/
https://www.cmstory.org/exhibits/mecklenburg-people/ephraim-brevard
https://www.cmstory.org/tags/celebrating-mecklenburg-declaration-independence-celebration-timeline