On this day 250 years ago, the Shawnee under Chief Cornstalk and the Virginians led by Governor Dunmore entered into the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. Under this treaty the Shawnee led by Cornstalk agreed to recognize the land cessations granting Virginia the territory south and east of the Ohio River (present day West Virginia and Kentucky) and to allow free passage on the river, although other Shawnee led by Blue Jacket refused to recognize the treaty. Ironically, within a year, Dunmore would be at war with the Virginians, but Chief Cornstalk would remain at peace with Virginia and the other American colonies and refused to join the Shawnee under Blue Jacket, as well as the other tribes, who went to war against the Americans in alliance with the British in the Revolutionary War. Despite his loyalty for the Americans, Cornstalk would be murdered by American soldiers in 1777.
http://www.touringohio.com/history/camp-charlotte.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornstalk
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/lord-dunmores-war/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/proving-ground-revolutionary-ohio
Also on that day in Annapolis, Maryland, a large crowd of Patriots forced loyalist Anthony Stewart to burn his own ship the Peggy Stewart because it had carried banned tea to Maryland and Stewart had paid the hated tea tax.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-mob-and-the-peggy-stewart.htm
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2012/12/16/annapolis-tea-party-1774
https://peggystewart250.org/index.html
And on that day in Alexandria, Virginia, three officers of the Fairfax Independent Company wrote to the Company’s commander George Washington who was attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
In compliance with an order made at a meeting of forty nine subscribers of the Fairfax Independant Company, we take the Liberty to request, (if it does not interfere with the more important business you are engaged in) that you will please to make some enquiries with regard to the furnishing the company with a pair of Colours, two Drums, two Fifes, and two Halberts, if they are to be had in Philadelphia; which may be sent round by the first Vessel for Alexandria.
The three officers who wrote this letter, William Rumney, Robert Hanson Harrison and John Fitzgerald would all become officers in the Continental Army.
And in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on this day the Massachusetts Provincial Congress appointed militia officers Captain William Heath, Major John Fellows, Col. John Thomas, Major Thomas Gardner and Colonel Seth Pomeroy to be “a committee to make as minute an inquiry into the present state and operations of the army as may be, and report” back to the Provincial Congress. All five of these men would become generals in either the Continental Army or the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolutionary War, but only Heath and Fellows survived the War. Gardner died of wounds received at Bunker Hill in 1775, and both Thomas and Pomeroy would die from illness while on campaign in 1776 and 1777 respectively.
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