On this day 250 years ago, Philip Vickers Fithian writing in his journal at Nomini Hall plantation in Virginia where he was employed as a tutor to the wealthy Carter family, said that “There are great Professions of Liberty here expressed in Songs Toasts, &c. Yesterday News came of the Arrival of Ships with Tea; into Boston, New-york, Philadelphia. . . . Gentlemen here in general applaud & honour our Northern Colonies for so manly, & patriotic Resistance!”

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