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Becoming Americans Today: The Interpreter’s Newsletter
Autumn 2002_Autumn 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Mark Howell
Anne Willis
The Information in this issue of Becoming Americans Today informs us of the dynamic
interaction of Becoming American story lines that shaped the events of autumn of 1774.
Taking Possession
The Quebec Act
Battle of Point Pleasant
Notices of Land Sales
Enslaving Virginia
The Association
Runaway Advertisements
Notices of Slave Sales
Redefining Families
Autumn Preparations and Health
Notices of Land and Slave Sales
The Association
Freeing Religion
The Quebec Act
Buying Respectability
The Association
Shipping and Commerce
Notices of Land and Slave Sales
Choosing Revolution
The Continental Congress
The Association
The Suffolk Resolves
Declaration of Rights
America in Flames
December 2002_Part 1 Winter: December 1774_Part 2 Winter: January and February 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
�The Information in this issue of Becoming Americans Today informs us of the dynamic
interaction of Becoming American story lines that shaped the events of autumn of 1774.
Taking Possession
Return of Lord Dunmore
From the West
Shawnee Hostages in Williamsburg
Nicholas Cresswell’s Journal
Enslaving Virginia
Christmas for African Americans
Letter to Robert Pleasants
To Anthony Benezet
Redefining Families
Birth of Lady Virginia
Arrival of Lady Dunmore
Freeing Religion
Sacred and Secular Calendar
Christmas Celebration
Buying Respectability
The Association
Commerce
Advertisements
Choosing Revolution
The Association
Boston Tea Party
David Ammerman
Volume 2 No. 1 2003_March, April, May 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Dunmore Fires Burgesses
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshop
The Wild, Wild West
News
To Fee or not to Fee: Court is the Question!
Business Opportunities
Weather
Money
A Fool and his Money
Shipping
�Spring Farming
Forum
Spring is in the Air
Presenting Spring 1774 in 2003
Servant Plays Dead then Pretends to be Doctor
Sacred and Secular Calendar
Crime and Punishment
Life
Politics is Politics but Dance is Diversion
Cook’s Corner: Spring Receipts
Who’s Who: Jupiter
School
Negro School in Its Fourteenth Year
Volume 2 No. 2 2003_June, July, August 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Hot Town! Summer in the City: Colonial Blood Begins to Boil
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Jefferson’s a Summary View of British America
What’s on Peoples’ Minds?
Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
Virginia County Responses to the Coercive Acts
News
Virginia County Responses: Half Slave Trade!
Palace Posting: Is this “Western Civilization”?
Jefferson’s A Summary View
Education
Education Virginians
Forum
A Summer Summary
Common Cause
Lexicon of Protest
Somerset Decision a Slave’s Response
Farming
Crops and Livestock
Housekeeping Gardening/Food Preservation
Building Trades
Family Life
Fit for Life: Williamsburg Summer 1774
�Educating Virginians
Weather
Volume 2 No. 3 2003_Autumn 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Snapshot Today
“In Congress, Nibbling and Quibbling as Usual”
Tea Party… Redux: If it Played in Boston
Sqawk Box
Okay, No More Mister Nice Guy!
News
Quebec Act: Intolerable!
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Phil… lY?
Time to Pack it In!: Lord Dunmore’s War
Sacred and Secular Calendar
Money
Shipping
Virginia’s Trade Calendar
End the Slave Trade! The Association of 1774
Autumn Farming
Sacred and secular Calendar
Forum
Letter from…
A Jumble of Peoples: Diversity in the Colonies
The Approach to Independence
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Crime and Punishment
John Randolph, Esqr’s Slave to be Hanged
Weather
Devastating Drought
Getting ready for Fall!
Life
Autumn Receipts
Health
Building Trade
Brothers-in-Arms Weekend October 11 and 12, 2003
Volume 2 No. 3a_Supplement Summer and Autumn 1781
Editors:
�Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
War Comes to Williamsburg
The Down Side of Revolution
Summer 1781
Wartime Romance
News
Yorktown is Proof Positive- These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls
The Yorktown Campaign: Principal Players
People
Two Perspectives: War and the Slaves
War and the Masters
Volume 2 No. 5_Christmas 1774
This does not have editors, or a copyright listed. I think it is a supplement to another issue that
we don’t have.
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Challenges for the New year 1774/2004
James City County Committee Election and Toasts
The Christmas Season
Putting Slaving Aside
“Welcome Winter”
December Weather
Colonial Christmas Customs
Volume 3 No. 1_January and February 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
It Takes Tea to Tangle
Calamity!
Travel Warning: Black Sea Turns Red
Shakin’ Up the Neighborhood
�News
Boundary Dispute
Hot Flash: Boston Tea Party
Driving Evolution in the Colonies 1770
Benezet Suggests Solution for Ending Slavery
Money
Commerce
Building Trades
Agricultural Calendar
Forum
Letter from… Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Once More in ‘74
Winter 1774 in Williamsburg
Weather
Hearth and Home
Life
Cooks Corner
Presidents Weekend, February 14-16, 2004
Black History Month
Enslaving Virginia Time Line
Volume 3 No. 2_March and April 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Snapshot Today
Charlotte Sweetens Colonial Tie with Britain
Tracking the Journey
Bitter Winter, North Atlantic Six Children Whose idea was this?!
Celebration Backfires
Outrage in Fincastle
Practice Religion in Virginia
Life
Spring Farming
Building Trades
Health
Weather
Get Ready for the Spring!
Sacred and Secular Calendar
Money
A Sentiment
�Shipping
Forum
Letter from… Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Programming
Highlights for Spring 2004 Streetscapes
Special Themes
Clever Colonel Cons Contemptible Caregivers
Crime and Punishment
Women’s History Month
March 2004
Two Williamsburg Women in 1774
Religion History Month
April 2004
Religion Time Line 1753-76
Colonial American Religion
Church and Vestry
Volume 3 No. 3_May, June, July 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
“Down on Their Knees”
Eyewitness Report
Halt Slave Trade!
Virginia Today Snapshot
News
Prepare for War, Hope for Peace
Frost and Drought
Newsline
Virginia’s Shadow Government
Disorder in the Court
Business
Buying Respectfully…
Taking Possession…
Forum
A Summer Summary
England Acts and reacts
Slavery
The Famous Somerset Case
Life
Farming
�Housekeeping Gardening/ Food Preservation
Continues from p.3
Somerset Case
Enslaving Virginia
Taking Possession…
Buying Respectability…
Black and White Family Life
Family Life for Colonial Virginians, 1750-75
Weather
Volume 3 No. 3_The Gunpowder Incident
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Five Men Inform Burgesses about the Gunpowder Incident
The Gunpowder Incident
An Uneasy Standoff
Back Page
Newsline
Nicholas’ Dilemma
Prelude to Independence The Fifth Virginia Convention
Virginia Declaration of Rights: Look Familiar?
Who Gets to Vote When?
Evolution of Voting Rights
Volume 3 No. 4_August 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Convention To Congress: Only the Shadow Knows
The Quebec Act
Jefferson’s Summary View
News
End the Slave Trade
Politics Does Make…
�Importation of Slaves into Virginia 1772-74
Forum
What Have they Wrought?
Volume 3 No. 4_Autumn 2004_Autumn 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Snapshot
Congress Acts: Congress Adopts A Continental Association
“In Congress, Nibbling and Quibbling as Usual”
The Association of 1774
Yorktown Tea Party
News
Dunmore’s War: A Native Perspective
Time to Pack it In! Lord Dunmore’s War
Philadelphia Attraction
Money
Shipping
Virginia’s Trade Calendar
Autumn Farming
Building Trades
Forum
Letter from… Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Approach Independence
A Jumble of Peoples Diversity in the Colonies
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Crime
John Randolph, Esqr’s Slave to be Hanged
Weather
Devastating Drought Hurricane Season
Health
Life
Getting Ready for Fall
Receipts
Brothers-in-Arms Weekend October 8-10, 2004
Volume 3 No. 5_November 2004_Dunmore’s Proclamation 1775
Possibly a supplement
�Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Dunmore Offers Freedom to Slaves of “Rebel Masters”!!!
Colonial Leaders Use the Press to Discourage Slaves
Forum
Lord Dunmore’s Slaves
Slaves at the Public Goal
News
Volume 3 No. 7_December 2004_December 1774
No copyright or editors listed. Possibly supplement (but it’s Blue)
Front Page
Newsline
Governor Returns from War: Four Shawnees Arrive at the Palace
Tar and Feathers and Freedom? The Association and Committees of Safety
early 19th-Century Interview with Jeremy Prophet
What Will Happen in the New Year?
News
Palace Posting
Churching of Lady Dunmore
Christmas
The Holly and the Ivy
Putting Slavin’ Aside
Volume 4 No. 1_January 2005_Winter 1773
Blue but no editor or copyright listed. Supplement?
Front Page
Newsline
Best years of Our Lives?
Hear Ye!
Winter 1773- The Calm Before the Storm
Challenge of Winter
The Gaspee Incident- Who is Judging Who?
Gotcha!
Presidents Weekend, February 19-20, 2005
�Black History Month
Enslaving Virginia Timeline
Volume 4 No. 3_The Gun Powder Incident
Possibly a supplement/ definitely a copy of the 2004 issue
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Five Men Inform Burgesses about the Gunpowder Incident
The Gunpowder Incident
An Uneasy Standoff
Back Page
Newsline
Nicholas’ Dilemma
Prelude to Independence The Fifth Virginia Convention
Virginia Declaration of Rights: Look Familiar?
Who Gets to Vote When?
Evolution of Voting Rights
Volume 4 No. 4_June, July, August 2005
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Freedom on the Line: Risk of Rebellion
Risky Business
The Revolution in North America
News
Patrick Henry Elected Governor
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Wheel Horse of Revolution
Virginia’s Constitution; June 29, 1776
Exhibit
�The Stone Declaration: Hope Behind Hype
The Declaration of Independence
Unfinished Business
The Declaration
Publicizing the Declaration of Independence
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
American Paradox: Freedom to Slavery
Forum
Gordon Wood, The American Revolution: The History
A Review of 1776 by David McCullough
Preparing for War in New York
Condemned Slave to Hang
Declaration of Right and Religion
Life
Summer Farming
Housekeeping/Gardening/Food Preservation Summer
Interpretation
Warning! Rebellion May be Injurious to your Health
Quiz Yourself on Independence
Volume 4 No. 5_Supplement_June and September 1781
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front page
Newsline
War Comes to Williamsburg
The Down Side of the Revolution
Under the Redcoat Friday-Sunday, June 24-26, 2005
Prelude to Victory: Washington Prepares for Yorktown! Friday-Sunday, September 24,2006
News
American Victory and Yorktown
Yorktown is Proof Positive-These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls
People
Two Perspectives War and Slaves
Slaves as Soldiers
Black Women
Slaves as Laborers
War and the Masters
Volume 4 No. 6_Autumn 2005_Autumn 1775
�Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Revolutionary Times for Colonists
His Last Debt to Nature
1775/2005
The Prodigious Wind of 1775: Patrick Henry?? No, A Hurricane!
News
Lord Dunmore’s Strategy for War
Britain’s Determination: King George and Parliament
Seizure of the Norfolk Press
A Report for the Grand Congress November 27, 1775
Dunmore’s Proclamation
Odds and Ends
A Proclamation.
Forum
David Brion Davis, Slavery and Human Progress
A Few Anonymous Remarks on Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
News
Colonial Leaders use the Press to Discourage Slaves
Hening’s Statute
Lord Dunmore’s Slaves
Slave at the Public Gaol
Williamsburg Loyalists in 1775
Money
Autumn Farming
Interpretation
School and Group Interpreters
Orientation Interpreters
Domestic Site Interpreters
Public Site Interpreters
Fall 2005 Fall 1775- The Sword is Drawn
African American Interpreters
Trades
Volume 4 No. 6_August 2005_Supplement_Virginia Convention 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
A Call for Congress
�Virginia Today Snapshot
Convention to Congress: Only the Shadow Knows
The Dye is Cast
Jefferson’s Summery View
News
End the Slave Trade!
Address to the King
Politics Does Make…
Importation of Slaves into Virginia 1772-74
Forum What Have they Wrought?
Volume 4 No. 7_November 1, 2005_November 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
The Revolution Comes Home!
Tea Dumped at Yorktown
Congress Adopts A Continental Association
Williamsburg’s Meeting of Merchants
Money
Shipping
Virginia’s Trade Calendar
Number of Slaves Transported to Virginia 1765-1775
Slavery and the Association of 1774
Biographies of Virginia Delegation
Forum
Approach to Independence
The Revolution Comes Home!
Volume 4 No. 8_Christmas 2005_Christmas 1770s
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Frontpage
Newsline
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Customs
Twelfth Night
�Christmas
Christmas Food and Drink
A Simple Winter Dinner
Deck the Halls
Putting Slavin’ Aside
Interpretation
Best of the 70’s The Historic Ares Holiday Season 2005
Volume 5 No. 1_January and February 2006_January and February 1774
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
These Are the Times that Tease Men’s Souls
Dreadful Fire
Travel Warning: Black Sea Turns Red
Earth Shakes in Virginia!
News
Boundary Dispute
Boston Tea Party
Driving Evolution in the Colonies
Benezet Suggests Solution for Ending Slavery
Money
Commerce
Building Trades
Agricultural Calendar
Forum
Winter 1774 in Williamsburg
Weather
Hearth and Home
Life
Cook’s Corner
Presidents Weekend
President’s Weekend, February 18-20, 2006
Black History Month
Enslaving Virginia Time Line
Volume 5 No.2_June, July, August 2006_1774 to 1776
Editors:
�Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
“The Revolutionary City” Collapse of Royal Government
Two Sides of the Conflict!!
The New General Washington
The Center Does not Hold!
Dissolving… Running… Enlisting…
Forum
Letter from Rex Ellis
Letter from Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Washington’s Army in Summer of 1775
Virginia’s Shadow Government
Money
Shipping
Interpretation
The Collapse of the Royal Government
Summer Farming
Housekeeping/Gardening/Food Preservation Summer
Volume 5 No. 2_June, July, August 2006_1776 to 1781
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
The Revolutionary CityTM Citizens at War
Republicanism
General Washington Arrives in Williamsburg
Transformations
Declaring… Following… Believing…
Forum
A Revolution on the Streets
War
British Invasion of New York
Interpretation
“The Revolutionary City” Historic Sites
Citizens at War The Historic Area
�Volume 5 No. 3_September, October, November 2006_1774 to 1776
No editor listed
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Revolutionary City Virginia Prepares for War
Immigration and Diversity 1774 to 1776
Protests and Actions
Dividing… Coercing… Resolving
Forum
Letter from Robin Reed
Lexicon of Protest
News
Life
Autumn 1774 and 1775
Getting Ready for Fall!!
Interpretation Trades
Money
Autumn Farming
Volume 5 No. 3_September, October, November 2006_1776 to 1781
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Revolutionary CityTM Mind Set of the Founders
British Ships Arrive in New York Harbor!
The Die Cast
Running to Freedom… Securing Freedom
Puzzle Insert
Collapse of Royal Government (Blue Issue)
Citizens at War (Red Issue)
Forum
Thomas Paine’s Argument
Articles of Confederation
War
Money
Tradesmen’s Pay
Crop Notes and Transfer Notes
Historic Area Programming Fall 2006
�Interpretation
“Revolutionary Citizens” Programing
Volume 5 No. 4_Christmas 2006_Christmas 1774 to 1783
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Snapshot Today
Christmas in Wartime
Challenges for Americans The New years 1774 to 1783
Winter Celebrations
Christmas
1777-1783
Christmas in the Historic Area
Birdie Cake
Volume 6 No. 1_March, April, May 2007_1774 to 1783
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Revolutionary Stories
Citizens at War, 1776-1781
Spring 2007 Programming
Nation Builders
Evening Programs
Revolutionary City/Stories 2007
Second Page
Biographies
Thomas Jefferson
Lydia Broadnax
Eve
Volume 6 No. 2_April, May, June 2007_1776 to 1781
No editor listed
This one is two pages front and back. Page 1 and 3. There is no page 2.
�Front Page
Newsline
European Colonization in the New World
Virginia Today Snapshot
Independence: Go For It!
The Treacherous Gamble
Virginia Assembly’s Action on Slavery 2007
Black Allegiances During the War
Back Page
Historic Area
Letter from Rex Ellis
Viewpoint
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr,: “Relevance of History”
Health Challenges of War
Biography
Volume 6 No.2_April, May, June 2007_1774 to 1776
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Front Page
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Why Jamestown Matters
Legal Status of Women
General Nathanael Green
The Collapse: Before and After
Fleeing…
Defending…
Declaring…
Forum
Letter from James Horn: Recovering Virginia’s Forgotten History
An Overview of Race and Region, 1685-1790
1700 to 1780- Population Information about Indians and Enslaved African Americans in Virginia
Biography
Historic Area
Spring 1774
Spring Farming
Cook’s Corner
Life
Get Ready for the Spring!
Building Trades
�Volume 6 No. 3_June, July, August 2007
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Newsline
Indian Timeline: 1750 – 1812
Virginia Today Snapshot
Indians in Williamsburg
Primary Document Evidence of Indians in Williamsburg in the 1750’s, 1760’s and 1770
Indians and the Revolution
BA Today Index
Cultures
Disappearance of American Indian Cultures
Powhatan Religion
Indian Temple
Robert Beverly’s Observations of an Indian Temple
Forum
Letter from Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Republican Ideal and the American Indian
Books
War
Native American’s: Who’s Who in the American Revolution
Biographies
Runaways
Runaway Indian Slaves
What Jamestown can Tell Us
Indian Diets
The West
Aborigenes
Religion
Indians in Williamsburg 1752-1771
Indian in Williamsburg 1774-1777
Interpretation
Art
Volume 6 No. 4_October, November, December 2007
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Newsline
Virginia Today Snapshot
Britain Ends the Slave Trade
�Slavery and the United States Constitution
Atlantic Slave Trade and the Settlement of Virginia
Forum
Biographies
Atlantic Slave Trade Continued…
Costal Origins of African Imported to Virginia
Virginia Legislation Regarding the Slave Trade
Chesapeake Slavery after 1776
George Mason’s Opinion’s of Slavery and the Trade
State’s Reactions Against Slavery
Volume 7 No. 1_ April/May 2008
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
“The Dissensions of Our Families”
Programming for 2008
Marriage of Edmund Randolph and Elizabeth Nicholas
The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony
Gentry Marriages
Politics
Evening Programs 2008
Volume 7 No. 2_June, July, August 2008
Editors:
Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Newsline
United States Today Snapshot
Electing a President
Common Concerns for Voters
Elections
Populations
The Three-Fifths Clause
The Electoral College
News
Europe 1789
Women
Volume 7 No. 3_November, December 2008
Editors:
�Margot Crévieaux-Gevertz
Anne Willis
Colonial Economy
Wartime Economy
Confederation Economy
The New Constitution
Interpretation: The Charlton Coffeehouse
�
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<em>Becoming Americans Today</em> was a newsletter developed by the Department of Interpretive Training for interpreters. Presented in a newspaper format loosely based on USA Today, it was developed to support programming by providing interpreters with the news that would have shaped the thoughts and lives of Williamsburg residents during the years interpreted in the Historic Area. It was considered a training material that combined diverse historical information in a readable contemporary format, utilizing headlines as a hook that interpreters could use to draw guests into the story. It was published 2002-2008.
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