On this day 250 years ago, a town meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston concluded with an endorsement of the Solemn League and Covenant and its boycott of trade with Britain. The meeting had started the day before (on June 27) and initially merchants opposed to the boycott introduced resolutions that would reject the Solemn League and dissolve the Committee of Correspondence. After two days of debate led on the Patriot side by Sam Adams, Joseph Warren, Josiah Quincy Jr., and Thomas Young, the Patriots prevailed by the vote of “a great majority” of approximately four-to-one of the participants in the meeting.
Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/solemn-league-and-covenant-1774/; Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at pp. 117-18.
Also on this day, the Town of Worthington, Massachusetts formed its Committee of Correspondence. https://www.worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/wordpress/?page_id=64
And in Annapolis, Maryland, Thomas Johnson of the newly-formed Annapolis Committee forwarded to George Washington a copy of the resolutions in support of Boston passed by the Maryland Committee.
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