On this day 250 years ago, in Savannah, the Georgia Gazette published a letter written by “Margaret Homespun” urging women to boycott East India Company tea. She reasoned that “the principal bone of contention (to wit the article of tea) lies altogether between the Parliament of Great-Britain and the Women of America,” so “silence in our sex” is “unpardonable.” And she concluded that “Whatever may be the event of the present struggle, let it never be said our sex were accessory to the death of AMERICAN LIBERTY.”

Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution, New York: Vintage Books, 2021 at p. 63.

Also on that day in Savannah, the Georgia Provincial Congress convened for the purpose of electing delegates to the Second Continental Congress in May. However, the men of the Provincial Congress were unable to decide on instructions to its delegates whether or not Georgia would join the Continental Assocation boycott of trade with Britain, so the Provincial Congress did not send anyone to the Second Continental Congress.

Sources: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/royal-georgia-1752-1776/; https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/peter-tondee-ca-1723-1775/

Also on that day 250 years ago, 60 representatives of townships in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, gathered at John Ringo’s Tavern (in the present-day Ringoes Historic District) to elect a County Committee for Hunterdon County. The meeting was chaired by John Hart (who would later be one of New Jersey’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence) and resolved:

The Committee taking into consideration the Proceedings of the late Continental Congress, highly approve thereof, and the Association entered into do recommend and will abide by, and thank the Delegates for their firm and steady conduct.

The Committee then taking into their consideration the method of choosing Delegates for this Province, to attend at Philadelphia, the 10th day of May next, or sooner, if necessary, in Continental Congress, agreed to . . . recommend that the several County Committees meet at Trenton, on Wednesday, the 29th day of March next, . . . to choose Delegates for the purpose aforesaid, and we do hereby appoint Samuel Tucker, John Mehelm, John Hart, Daniel Hunt, Jasper Smith, Charles Coxe, Richard Stevens, Samuel Johnson, Esquires, Messrs. Thomas Jones and Thomas Stout, a County Committee for the purpose aforesaid, who, or any three of them, are also appointed a Committee of Correspondence

Sources: https://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/forthavoc/html/NJCouncilofSafety.aspx?culture=en-CA; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=16694