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Medina program traces Declaration of Independence, features first-person Revolutionary War account
Summary
At an America 250 event at Medina City Hall, organizers read and discussed parts of the Declaration of Independence, linked colonial grievances to later Ohio settlement, and presented a first-person account by Henry Champion recounting service at Lexington/Concord and other wartime events.
Roger Smalley, the program organizer, opened a community presentation at Medina City Hall on themes from the Declaration of Independence and early Ohio settlement, saying the 56 signers had “pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”
Smalley summarized the declaration’s charges against King George III — including denial of trial by jury, standing armies, transportation for trial and taxation without representation — and traced how taxes and trade restrictions after the French and…
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