On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the New York Provincial Congress declared in a letter to the inhabitants of Canada that “Mankind ought to be governed by the dictates of justice, and not by the hand of oppression.”

Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.10802300/

On that day in Rhode Island, three regiments assembled to march to Massachusetts to join the New England Army besieging Boston. One regiment from Bristol and Newport Counties was commanded by Colonel Thomas Church, a regiment from Providence County was commanded by Colonel Daniel Hitchcock, Colonel James Mitchell Varnum commanded the regiment from King’s and Kent counties, and Captain John Crane commanded the artillery company. Church would serve only until the end of the year, but Hitchcock, Varnum, Crane and many of the men in their regiments would go on to serve in the Continental Army, with Hitchcock dying while in service.

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On this day 250 years ago in North Carolina, Governor Josiah Martin arrived at Fort Johnston at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. The Royal Government of North Carolina had collapsed and could operate now only under the protection of British arms.

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