On this day 250 years ago the Patriots were very busy in Massachusetts. Two thousand men surrounded the home of Timothy Paine in Worcester to demand, successfully, his resignation as a Mandamus Councilor to Governor Gage. In Boston, the multicounty convention of town Committees of Correspondence meeting at Faneuil Hall issued a report declaring unequivocally: No power on Earth, hath a Right without the consent of this Province to alter the minutest title of its Charter.
And in recognition that 3000 men had assembled for a town meeting in Salem during the prior week notwithstanding Governor Gage’s order that prohibited the meeting, Gage decided to depart his temporary capital of Salem to return to Boston and the protective guns of the British troops and ships stationed there.
Sources: Michael McWeeney, “The Battle for Legitimacy and Sovereignty in Revolutionary Massachusetts: 1774-1775” (Ohio State University 2010) at pp. 32-33 & 36 (available at https://kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/e83e5161-9046-5b37-a566-11082f4e4103/content)
https://revolutionaryworcester.org/items/show/93
Also on this day 250 years ago the patriots of the district of Palatine in Tryon County, New York meeting at the tavern of Adam Loucks in Stone Arabia passed a resolution pledging
That we will unite and join with the different districts of this country in giving whatever relief it is in our power to the poor distressed inhabitants of Boston; and that we will join and unite with our brethren of the rest of this country in anything tending to support and defend our rights and liberties.
The meeting at Loucks Tavern in Stone Arabia also appointed a standing Committee chaired by Christopher P. Yates with Isaac Paris, John Frey and
Andrew Finck Jr. as members that would serve as the Palatine District Committee of Correspondence and Committee of Safety and effectively govern the Palatine District during the Revolutionary War. The four men of the initial Committee would all also serve as officers in the New York militia during the War.
Source: https://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/mvgw/history/056.html
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One response to “On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — August 27, 1774”
Thanks for always including (when you can) the service so many of these patriots later rendered during the war. We typically think only of those who carried weapons but there had to be many others supporting them during those awful years for them to survive and provide logistics, communication, and management.
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