![If it were not for the efforts of a William & Mary president in the 1960s there would not have been a marine science program to benefit from the school’s recent largest financial gift. Davis Y. Paschall, president 1960-1971, was instrumental in the development of the substantial academic programs of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) at nearby Gloucester Point on the York River, The Virginia Fisheries Laboratory was established in 1940 as the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory as a joint effort between W&M and the Virginia Commission on Fisheries (now the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. It was initially organized […]](https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/6SCYSOUXX5GSHC7UWSYZ2RSEAU.jpg?w=103 "If it were not for the efforts of a William & Mary president in the 1960s there would not have been a marine science program to benefit from the school’s recent largest financial gift. Davis Y. Paschall, president 1960-1971, was instrumental in the development of the substantial academic programs of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) at nearby Gloucester Point on the York River, The Virginia Fisheries Laboratory was established in 1940 as the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory as a joint effort between W&M and the Virginia Commission on Fisheries (now the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. It was initially organized […]")
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![It was three weeks after July 4, 1776 that word of the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capitol; the two signers associated with the city were not around to celebrate. On July 25 George Wythe of Williamsburg and Thomas Nelson Jr. of Yorktown were still in Philadelphia attending sessions of the Second Continental Congress when the Declaration was read in front of the Capitol, the Courthouse and the Palace. The July 26 edition of Alexander Purdie’s Virginia Gazette said the Declaration “agreeable to an order of the Hon. Privy Council… [was] solemnly proclaimed” accompanied “by firing […]](https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ThomasNelson-1.jpg?w=81 "It was three weeks after July 4, 1776 that word of the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capitol; the two signers associated with the city were not around to celebrate. On July 25 George Wythe of Williamsburg and Thomas Nelson Jr. of Yorktown were still in Philadelphia attending sessions of the Second Continental Congress when the Declaration was read in front of the Capitol, the Courthouse and the Palace. The July 26 edition of Alexander Purdie’s Virginia Gazette said the Declaration “agreeable to an order of the Hon. Privy Council… [was] solemnly proclaimed” accompanied “by firing […]")
The day the declaration arrived in Williamsburg
It was three weeks after July 4, 1776 that word of the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capitol; the two signers associated with the city were...