On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first Virginia Convention concluded. Among other actions, the Virginia Convention elected Peyton Randolph, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton as delegates to the First Continental Congress to be held the following month in Philadelphia. The Virginia Convention also adopted the “Association” which was a pledge to stop importing all goods from Britain, except for medicine, to stop importing enslaved people, and to neither consume nor import tea.
Sources: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%226%20August%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr=; https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/the-first-virginia-convention/
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I enjoy reading all the references to tea. There were obviously other infractions but tea got the focus.
An article on public radio says, “after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists raided British tea ships and threw crates of tea into the harbor, Americans universally switched over to drinking coffee.”
(https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/04/24/178625554/how-coffee-influenced-the-course-of-history)
Wikipedia gives 5 excellent references explaining America’s switch from tea to coffee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee#Americas
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