Historical interpreter Jonathan Kruk read “The Declaration of Independence” as it was read on July 11, 1776. A fife and drum corps played. And actor Michael Grillo played patriot Samuel Crawford.
It was all in support of a Friends of the Ward House effort to kick off a $1 million campaign to purchase and restore Ward House on White Plains Road (Route 22) in Tuckahoe. (The event took place on Thursday, July 11, at neighboring Immaculate Conception Church: Southfield, off White Plains Post Road.)
Crawford, a captain during the Revolutionary War, died in service of the new country on the site where a monument and plaque now stand. The monument was commissioned by the Bronx chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and unveiled in 1913 at a ceremony to which 200 of Crawford’s direct descendants were invited.
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