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On this day 250 years ago in Connecticut, General George Washington and his staff arrived in New Haven, on their ride from Boston to New York. They had started their day in Lyme, Connecticut where they had spent the previous night at the home of John McCurdy. The John McCurdy House is still standing in…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress delivered the following reply to the speech of Captain White Eyes or Koquethagechton (spelled “Coquataginta” in the Journal of the Continental Congress), the chief of the Delawares: Brothers, the Delawares, At the council fire, at Pittsburg, last fall, and since by our brother Captain…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Congressman Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia replied to a letter from Landon Carter questioning whether the Congress was debating a declaration of independence from Great Britain: Who in the name of Heaven, could tell you, that Independency had been 3 times thrown out of Congress? You may…
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On this day 250 years ago, Commodore Esek Hopkins and the Continental Navy fleet he commanded sailed into the harbor at New London, Connecticut with the prizes, prisoners, artillery and gunpowder seized in their raid to the Bahamas and return cruise to America. https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/battle-of-nassau/ On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Joseph…
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On this day 250 years ago, off the Virginia Capes (in other words the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay), the brig USS Lexington, with about 20 guns and a crew of around 100 men commanded by Captain John Barry captured the smaller British sloop HMS Edward after an hour-long fight. Two American sailors were killed and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress declared economic independence from Great Britain by resolving that Americans could ship exports to every nation except Great Britain. The Congress also Resolved, That no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies. Source: Vol. IV, 1776, Journals of the Continental Congress,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, John Winthrop, who was the Professor of Mathematics and several times acting president of Harvard College, member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the Judge of Probate of Middlesex County, and an advocate for Independence wrote to John Adams: We have intire confidence in the wisdom and…
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On this day 259 years ago the Fourth Provincial Congress of North Carolina convened in Halifax. As one of its first orders of business the Congress named a committee of seven members to investigate “the usurpations and violences . . . by . . . Great Britain against America.” The President of the North Carolina…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Members of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts — John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine and Elbridge Gerry — wrote to James Warren — the President of the Council of Massachusetts who also served as the President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. In…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, wrote to General George Washington: It gives me the most sensible Pleasure to convey to you, by Order of Congress, the only Tribute, which a free People will ever consent to Pay; the Tribute of Thanks and Gratitude to…
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