On this day 250 years ago, “a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of New Kent, at the Courthouse of the said County” in Virginia adopted the New Kent Resolves. These resolutions were similar to the resolutions adopted by other counties in Virginia and the other American colonies in protest against the Intolerable Acts. The meeting elected Thomas Adams as Moderator, William Clayton as Clerk, and Burwell Bassett and Bartholomew Dandridge as Delegates to the upcoming Virginia Convention to be held on August 1. The Resolves “earnestly recommended to the Deputies at the said general Convention to nominate and appoint fit and proper Persons, on Behalf of this Colony, to meet such Deputies as shall be appointed by the other Colonies in General Congress, to consult and agree upon a firm and indissoluble Union and Association, for preserving, by the best and most proper Means, their common Rights and Liberties.”
Dandridge and Bassett were both brothers-in-law to George Washington; Dandridge was Martha Washington’s brother and Bassett was married to her sister. Dandridge, Bassett, Clayton and Adams would all serve in the Virginia Conventions and other political office throughout the Revolution with Adams elected to the Continental Congress and signing the Articles of Confederation.
https://newkentvahist.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-reposting-new-kent-resolves-of-1774.html
https://newkentvahist.blogspot.com/2015/01/
Also on this day 250 years ago, The Connecticut Courant and Hartford Weekly Intelligencer reported that a seventy-eight foot liberty pole flying a huge scarlet flag emblazoned with the phrase “Liberty and Property” has been erected in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2024/02/liberty-and-property-cash-africas-american-revolution/
And also on this day 250 years ago at the Presbyterian Church (now First Presbyterian) in Carlisle, “a respectable gathering of the freeholders and freemen from several townships of Cumberland County in the province of Pennsylvania” adopted resolutions in support of the people of Boston and in opposition to the Boston Port Act. One of the signers was James Wilson, who would go on to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A lesser knowns signer was William Hays, a barber from Carlisle who would enlist in the Continenta Army as an artilleryman and whose wife Mary Ludwig Hay would join him in camp and supposedly on the battlefield at Monmouth Courthouse where she was one of women immortalized by history as “Molly Pitcher”.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/history/local/beers1886/beers-05.txt
On this day July 12, 2024, the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle hosted a special program to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of Cumberland declaration and the church will hold special services on Sunday, July 14, 2024 to continue the commemoration.
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3 responses to “On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — July 12, 1774”
Since you’ve mentioned GW’s family, I wonder that he never had any biological children? Some religious beliefs in the 17th Century were harsh, requiring adherents to avoid intimacy except to bear children. I wonder if these beliefs continued until George Washington’s day and whether or not he adhered to them perhaps for his wife’s sake?
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I am sure Washington was simply infertile rather than avoided intimacy because of religious beliefs. Some people are just not blessed with children despite trying. Washington was a mainstream member of the Church of England/Episcopal Church and attended services throughout his life but he often skipped church and his writings do not reveal him to be especially devout notwithstanding Christian Nationalists’ selective citations to him in support of their movement.
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Thank you for the insight.
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