Today in Johnson City History, Monday, June 22, 2026
June continues!
Saturday, June 22, 1776: Two hundred and fifty years ago today, “’There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire.’ So warned Presbyterian minister John Witherpoon, who on June 22, 1776, was elected to represent New Jersey in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
“Witherspoon had emigr…