On this day 250 years ago on the road to Baltimore, Maryland, George Washington and Richard Henry Lee met up with their fellow delegates travelling to join the Continental Congress. Washington, Lee, Peyton Randolph, Edmund Pendleton and Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, and also Joseph Hewes and Richard Caswell of North Carolina, were escorted into by three companies of militia. They would lodge that night at the Fountain Inn in Baltimore.
Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/revolutionary-war/five-days-philadelphia; “[Diary entry: 5 May 1775],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0005-0010-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 327.]
On this day 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin disembarked in Philadelphia after six weeks on a packet ship sailing from England. The next day he would be elected as one of Pennsylvania’s delegates to the Continental Congress.
Source: https://www.historynet.com/benjamin-franklin-revolutionary-spymaster/
And on this day 250 years ago off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, the 16-gun British sloop HMS Falcon captured an American sloop and then captured another American sloop off the town of Dartmouth, where the Falcon anchored. The people of Dartmouth responded by sailing two sloops out to attack the Falcon. The Americans recaptured the two American sloops and captured more than a dozen British crewmen, but the Falcon escaped.
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