On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson returned to take his seat in the Continental Congress.
On this day 250 years ago, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Lt. Col. Loammi Baldwin wrote to General Washington that a party of Continentals had crossed to Noddles Island in a skiff to capture a horse and a canoe
but could not discover any person on the Island. This occasions a conjecture in my mind whether some Evil-minded person from the Country has not taken a Boat from the Marshes and made his escape (perhaps with intelligence) to the enemy I would therefore humbly propose to your Excellency that all the Boats scattered for miles together on the Marshes be collected and put under the care of a Sentry.
Source: “Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin to George Washington, 1 October 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0072. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, p. 77.]
And on this day 250 years ago in Maine, Col. Benedict Arnold’s men were struggling along the Kennebec River to portage their bateaux and supplies around the Falls of Skowhegan, “Bumbazee’s rips,” and Norridgewock Falls, having travelled only fifty miles from their base of supplies at Fort Western, which they had left five days earlier. The journey would get only worse from here.
Source: https://www.americanrevolution.org/arnolds-expedition-ascent-of-the-kennebec/
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