On this day 250 years ago Club Forty-Five met in Charleston under the Liberty Tree to swear oaths to oppose British tyranny, and to drink to excess. Club Forty-Five comprised 45 South Carolina Patriots including John and Edward Rutledge. The Club was named for a famous essay “North Briton No. 45” written by the radical English Member of Parliament John Wilkes that attacked King George III for despotism.
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On this day 250 years ago, a Spanish officer at Arkansas Post reported to another Spanish official that a Quapaw chief had been visiting the British in Pensacola. The Spanish were concerned because the Quapaw had been long allied with the French in Louisiana in warfare against the British and the Spanish had expected to retain the Quapaw as allies when they succeeded the French in control of Lousiana. In the final years of the Revolution this alliance would be critical for the Spanish when they entered the War against the British.
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26924943?read-now=1&seq=13#page_scan_tab_contents at p. 13 n. 28
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On this day 250 years ago, “A Plea to the American Public to Protect Their Liberties” by resisting the importation of tea that was written by “a student of law” is printed as a broadside in New York
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23149623?seq=14 at p. 60
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Patriots met at Faneuil Hall to demand that the East India Company consignees resign. The consignees refused to resign and instead fled to Castle William in Boston Harbor.
Source: https://www.revolution250.org/250th-commemorations/250th-anniversary-of-the-boston-tea-party/
Today in the 21st Century I want to wish Happy Birthday to my sisters Amanda and Rebecca.
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On this day 250 years ago, a group of Patriots in Boston led by William Powell, Joseph Warren and Sam Adams sign a petition demanding the resignation of Richard Clarke and the other consignees of the East India Company. Later that night a large number of people attack and damage Richard Clarke’s home.
Sources: https://dp.la/item/b7807750c2cbb83d01bd29f289097e5d; https://www.revolution250.org/250th-commemorations/250th-anniversary-of-the-boston-tea-party/
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On this day 250 years ago, the Second Session of the Maryland Proprietary Assembly convened in Annapolis. The colonial Assembly would convene for one more session in 1774 before it was replaced by the Maryland Convention and then the Maryland Assemby of Freemen. The Assembly in 1773 included many Members who would soon be leading the Patriots in Maryland including William Paca, Samuel Chase, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Thomas Johnson, Jr., Matthew Tilghman, William Smallwood, William Fitzhugh, George Plater, Benjamin Ogle, Matthias Hammond and Philip Key.
Source:https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/genassem/html/ga1773-74.html
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On this day 250 years ago, an article written by “Junius Brutus” in the South Carolina Gazette warned Carolinians that the Tea Act enacted by Parliament would “establish a precedent for subjugating you to future impositions equally unjust and impolitic- to raise a revenue out of your pockets, against your consent- and to render assemblies of your representatives totally useless.”
Source: https://sc250charleston.org/the-charleston-tea-party-protest/
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Hamlet was performed by The American Company in Philadelphia with an original prologue written by William Eddis, that extolled “the sweets of Liberty”. Even at the theater, there was no escaping Americans’ demands for their rights.
Source: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/DigitalLibrary/view/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR0057.xml&highlight=#n850 at p. 231 (the prologue was reported in the Philadelphia Packet‘s issue of November 15, 1773 and presumably had been running all week)
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On this day 250 years ago, Peter Timothy announced in his South Carolina Gazette (two other competing newspapers in Charleston used the same title) that “300 chests of tea were on their way to Charles Town.” He urged Patriots to “band together to take the necessary steps to prevent the landing” of the tea.
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