On this day 250 years ago at Sycamore Shoals (then claimed by North Carolina but now in Tennessee) the Grand Council of the Cherokee Nation convened to negotiate with the Transylvania Company led by Richard Henderson for the sale of land in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Cherokee were led by Atta-Kulla-Kulla (known to the colonists as “The Little Carpenter”), Oconistoto, and Savanooko-Coronoh (“The Raven”) but more than 1200 people of the Cherokee Nation, men, women and children, were encamped at Sycamore Shoals. The Transylvania Company was represented by Richard Henderson, John Williams, Thomas Hart and Nathaniel Hart but several frontiersmen who would have significant roles in the Revolution including John Sevier, Issac Shelby, James Robertson, William Bailey Smith and Nathaniel Gist were also present.
Sources: https://www.npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/daniel-boone/history/chap8.htm
On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore wrote to Lord Dartmouth in London informing him that Virginia was preparing for war.
Sources: https://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/index.php/america-250-the-importance-of-1775/; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/march-14-1775-lord-dunmore-calls-for-help/id1788369259?i=1000699124370
On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams on behalf of the Boston Committee writes to the Maryland Committee with thanks for a donation of “two hundred pounds Maryland currency, being the amount of a generous collection made by the respectable people of the middle division of Frederick County, for the relief of the sufferers by the Boston Port Bill.” He separately writes to thank the Essex County, Virginia Committee to thank them for a donation of
one thousand and eighty-seven bushels of corn, being part of a very valuable contribution, shipped on board the schooner Sally . . . [that] was by contrary winds driven to th island of St. Eustatia [where] Mr. Isaac Van Dam, a reputable merchant of that place, generously took the care of the corn , and having made sale of it, remitted the amount of the proceeds, ( free of all expense,) being one hundred seventy-one pounds 8 / , New York currency
And also on that day in Boston British Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie recorded in this diary that
The lenity shown to Rob* Vaughan [of the 52^ Regiment, who had been pardoned the previous day and spared execution for desertion] has not had the effect the General expected, as some Soldiers have deserted since that event; — He has therefore notified to the Army, that as he finds his Clemency has had so little effect in bringing the Soldiers to a sense of their duty to their King and Country, and to reflect seriously on the Sin they commit in deserting the Service of both, this is the last man he will pardon who shall be condemned for desertion.
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One response to “On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — March 14, 1775”
The general must not have expected more deserters to turn themselves in, else why would he be shooting them for desertion? Sounds like, “The beatings will continue until morale improves.” LOL!
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