On this day 250 years ago, the Royal Navy positioned nine ships including the 64-gun HMS Captain, Admiral John Montagu’s flagship, in Boston Harbor to prepare for the blockade of the Port of Boston set to begin on June 1.
A blockade is an act of war and I think it is fair to assert that this act effectively was a declaration of war by Great Britain against the City of Boston if not its own colony of Massachusetts.
Also on that day, in Williamsburg, Peyton Randolph, the Chairman of Virginia’s Committee of Correspondence received an express letter from the Annapolis committee of correspondence, forwarding letters from the committees of Philadelphia and Boston. Randolph convenes the 25 ex-Burgesses still remaining in the town after dissolution of the Assembly to meet at his Williamsburg mansion to consider how to respond to the other colonies.
Peyton Randolph’s home has been preserved in Colonial Williamsburg and is well worth a visit. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/peyton-randolph-house/
On This Day In The Revolution 
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This is a fascinating concept. The Continental Congress wasn’t formed until the following September, therefore the colonies had no united means of declaring war in May, 1774. Since England obviously did have the means, could we say that the war actually began in May?
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