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On this day 250 years ago in New York at about 8:00 pm, Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene and Brig. Gen. Hugh Mercer led about 600 men from Pennsylvania rifle companies and Delaware militia regiments commanded by Col. Samuel Patterson and Col. Samuel Griffin from the Flying Camp in New Jersey across the Arthur Kill to…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson revised a proposed bill for “the encouragement of foreigners to settle in” Virginia to read: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia now met in General Assembly That all persons born in other countries and now residing in this…
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On this day 250 years ago on Lake Champlain, the British fleet caught up with the American fleet fleeing south. The day before the crew of the gondola Spitfire abandoned the boat and it sunk from the damage it had received in the Battle of Valcour Island, and the crew of the cutter Lee ran…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York, 80 British vessels transported 4000 British and Hessian troops from Kip’s Bay on Manhattan Island through the dangerous whirlpools and tides of Hell Gate on the East River into the opening of Long Island Sound. Only one boat sank in the transit with the loss of…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Old Provost prison in New York City, Col. Samuel Selden died in British captivity. Selden commanded one of the six regiments of Connecticut militia levies, and he with most of his regiment had been captured at Kip’s Bay on September 15. The Old Provost was then the…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York, Private Moses Barret of the Connecticut Militia died while in service. A roster recorded that he enlisted on September 6, 1776 in Lt. Robert Parke’s Company of Col. Douglas’s Regiment, marched 120 miles and died on this date. That is all I know about his service…
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On this day 250 years ago, the British fleet of 32 gunships, commanded by Navy Captain Thomas Pringle escorting more than 50 unarmed support vessels and transport bateaux, sailed into Lake Champlain and anchored at Point au Fer, New York. The largest British warship Inflexible, a 27-ton ship that could mount eighteen 12-pounder cannon, was…
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On this day 250 years ago near Fort Washington on Manhattan Island, Philip Vickers Fithian died of dysentery while serving as the chaplain of a New Jersey militia regiment attached to the Continental Army. The observations in Fithian’s diary are an often cited source for life in America in the years immediately preceding the Revolution…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Capitol in Williamsburg, the Virginia General Assembly convened for the first time. Today, October 7, 2026, the Virginia General Assembly convened at the reconstructed Capitol in Colonial Williamsburg to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Assembly’s founding. Source: “Honoring Our History, Building for Our Future”, Trend &…
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On this day 250 years on Lake Champlain the row galleys Washington and Congress under the command of Brig. Gen. David Waterbury joined Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold’s fleet anchored at Valcour Island, New York. The addition of these vessels brings Arnold’s fleet to 15 boats mounting 78 guns capable of firing 600 pounds of shot…
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