On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote to the surrounding towns requesting that they send representatives to a meeting the next day at Faneuil Hall to prepare a response to the Boston Port Act.
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Also on this day in London a petition drafted by Arthur Lee and Benjamin Franklin and signed by 26 other Americans living in Britain was presented to the House of Lords. The petition objected to the bills then under consideration in Parliament that would suspend elected governments and trial by jury in Massachusetts. The petition asserted that
These bills reduce Americans to the alternatives of being totally enslaved, or contesting with a parent state that they have loved and venerated. The petitioners conjure the House not to pass legislation that will inflame the colonists’ passions, flout the principles of liberty that they have inherited from England, and “drive them to the last Resources of Despair.”
In addition to Franklin and Arthur Lee, the other signers include Henry Laurens, Thomas Pinckney, William Lee, Ralph Izard, Stephen Sayre, William Hasell Gibbes, Isaac Motte, John Grimké, Jacob Read, Philip Neyle, John Perroneaux, Joshua Johnson and Ralph Izard Jr., who all would return to America and served in the Revolution as soldiers, diplomats or elected officials for the United States.
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On This Day In The Revolution 