On this day 250 years ago outside of Tondee’s Tavern in Savannah, the people of Savannah elected 25 delegates to the Provincial Congress of Georgia and a “Committee for enforcing the Association” that would later be called the “Council of Safety.”
Source: Weeks, Carl Solana, Savannah In the Time of Peter Tondee, Columbia, South Carolina: Summerhouse Press, 1997 at 192-93.
On this day 250 years ago at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Col. John Glover, leading additional men he had been recruiting, rejoined his diverse regiment of fishermen, sailors, sailmakers, dock workers, merchants and goldsmiths from Marblehead that included 16-year-old Spanish immigrant Francis Grater, and multiple men of color including Manuel Soto, Caesar Glover, and Romeo.
Sources: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=176355; O’Donnell, Patrick K., The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware, New York: Grove Press, 2021 at pp. 55-58, 122
On this day 250 years ago in Providence, the Rhode Island Assembly’s Committee of Safety agreed to lease the Katy from John Brown as the first ship in the Rhode Island Navy.
And on this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress “Resolved, that a sum not exceeding two millions of Spanish mill’d dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit for the defence of America” and thus created the first currency of the United States. The Congress also commissioned Irish immigrant Richard Montgomery, David Wooster of Connecticut, Seth Pomeroy, John Thomas, and William Heath of Massachusetts, Joseph Spencer of Connecticut, John Sullivan of New Hampshire and Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island as Brigadier Generals in the Continental Army. Half of these men would give their lives in the American Revolution — Montgomery and Wooster would be killed in action, and Pomeroy and Thomas would die of illness while serving.
Sources: https://www.loc.gov/item/90898111/; https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/siege-of-boston/
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