On this day 250 years ago two barges with South Carolina militia commanded by Captain John Barnwell and Captain John Joyner, an immigrant from England) and the Georgia ship Liberty commanded by Captain Oliver Bowen captured the HMS Phillippa and the supply ship it was escorting near Bloody Point on Tybee Island, Georgia. The Liberty “hoisted at the masthead a white flag with a red border, on the field of which flag was stamped or imprinted in large red letters the words ‘American Liberty,’” before firing on the Phillippa. The Americans capture16,000 pounds of gunpowder and later ship 4,000 pounds of the captured gunpowder to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Bowen and Joyner would go on to command additional ships, and Barnwell would command troops in the Continental Army during the Revolution.
Sources: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=20314; https://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/1775-skirmish/; https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_bloody_point.html;https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=sav-bios-lane; https://thefrigatesouthcarolina.weebly.com/blog/john-joyner-gillons-second-in-command; https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriot_leaders_sc_john_barnwell.html
On this day 250 years ago Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington held his first Council of War with his generals and staff at his headquarters in the Wadsworth House.
Sources: https://www.nps.gov/places/wadsworth-house.htm; “Council of War, 9 July 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0045. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, pp. 79–82.]
On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress voted
to supply the Indians of the Penobscot tribe, with any quantity of goods, not exceeding the value of three hundred pounds, and to draw on the receiver general for the same, who is hereby directed to pay such drafts, in three months after the date of this resolve, and to take furs and skins of the said Indians, in exchange, on the account of this colony, they to be accountable for their proceedings.
Source: https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/476/mode/2up
On This Day In The Revolution 