On this day 250 years ago, the town of Medford, Massachusetts adopted resolutions in support of the Patriots of Boston that asserted the British Government intended “to fasten the Chains of Slavery upon a burden’d and distressed people” and that “We wish to maintain Constitutional Liberty ourselves,” The Medford Resolves, however further objected to the “Iniquitous practice of enslaving the Affricans.” The Resolves declared it “Greatly absurd for us to plead for Liberty and yet patronise the most Cruel Servitude and Bondage” to those who “have not the least Shadow of Liberty Remaining.”
Month: December 2023
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On this day 250 years ago, one thousand Patriots gathered in the Market Square of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to burn the tea they had collected in the town.
Source: https://www.revolution250.org/250th-commemorations/250th-anniversary-of-the-boston-tea-party/
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On this day (or really yesterday since I am posting this after midnight) 250 years ago, another mass meeting of Patriots was held in Philadelphia to deal with the tea aboard the Polly. Reports state that 8000 people attended and the reports of the meeting of 6000 the day before may be conflating the two meetings. Although the captain of the Polly had already agreed not to unload the tea, the meeting adopted resolutions that “the TEA onboard the ship Polly, Capt. Ayres, shall not be landed” and that he shall “be obliged to leave this town and proceed to his vessel, and make the best of his way out of our river and bay.” The Polly departed for England the next day.
Source: https://imlive.com/webcam-girls/mylist/recently-visited/#:~:text=Recently-,Visited,-Private%20Chats
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On this day 250 years ago, more than 6000 Patriots gathered in Philadelphia to let the captain of the Polly know how they would react if he unloaded his cargo of tea. This was the largest meeting in Colonial America up to this point. The next day the Polly and its cargo of tea would begin their return trip to England.
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On Christmas Day 250 years ago, the Polly sailed up the Delaware River to dock at Chester, 20 miles south of Philadelphia. The Polly was carrying 697 chests of tea and its captain would learn the next day the greeting that awaited him in Philadelphia.
Merry Christmas All!
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On this day 250 years ago, Paul Revere carried news of the Boston Tea Party to Philadelphia.
Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/04/paul-reveres-other-rides/
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On this day 250 years ago, the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-letter published an article describing the Destruction of the Tea six days earlier. This is one of the best contemporaneous descriptions of the Boston Tea Party.
Source: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/pf/declaring/bostonTeaParty.cfm
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On this day 250 years ago Royal Customs officials in Charleston seized 257 chests of tea from the London for non-payment of duties. The tea was stored in the basement of the Exchange building, where it would remain until combat began in the Revolution.
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On this day 250 years ago John Hancock wrote his agent in London about the dumping of the tea in Boston Harbor: “No one circumstance could possibly have taken place more effectively to unite the colonies than this maneuver of the tea.”
Source: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-boston-tea-party/
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On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere was on horseback carrrying important news to his fellow Patriots. Longfellow wrote a poem about only one of his many rides but Revere was the main rider who carried news from the Boston Committee of Correspondence to other Committees. He rode out of Boston on December 17 to carry news of the Destruction of the Tea to New York and Philadelphia and no doubt towns along the way. He would arrive in New York the next day.
Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/04/paul-reveres-other-rides/
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