-
On this day 250 years ago, an anonymous article from a Patriot in New York was sent to Boston for publication in the Massachusetts Gazette. The article published a broadside written by “The Mohawks” in New York threatening anyone assisting in the import of East India Company tea with “an unwelcome visit, in which they…
-
On this day 250 years ago, Abigail Adams wrote to her friend and fellow Patriot Mercy Otis Warren: “The Tea that bainfull weed is arrived. Great and effectual opposition has been made to the landing of it. . . . our citizens have been united, spirited and firm. The flame is kindled and like lightening it catches…
-
On this day 250 years ago the Sons of Liberty of New York published a broadside declaring “It is essential to the freedom and security of a free people, that no taxes be imposed upon them but by their own consent, or their representatives.” Source: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14601740M/The_association_of_the_Sons_of_Liberty_of_New-York.
-
On this day 250 years ago, the Exchange building in Charleston was filled to capacity with angry Patriots upset with the arrival of the ship London carrying East India Company tea the day before. The crowd formed a Committee composed of Christopher Gadsden, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Ferguson and Daniel Cannon and many…
-
On this day 250 years ago, a Resolution was issued by “The People” that declared that those “aiding and assisting in” the landing of East India Company tea from the ships in Boston Harbor will “in a great Measure accelerate Confusion and a Civil War: This is to assure such public enemies of this Country,…
-
On this day 250 years ago, young college graduate James Madison wrote to his classmate William Bradford and asked Bradford about “the extent of your religious Toleration. Here allow me to propose the following Queries. Is an Ecclesiastical Establishment absolutely necessary to support civil society in a supream Government? & how far it is hurtful…
-
On this day 250 years ago, “The People” of Boston met again at Old South Meeting House to consider the response of the East India Company’s consignees. The meeting was interrupted by the delivery of a proclamation of acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson that ordered the meeting “To disperse and to surcease all further unlawful proceedings…
-
On this 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty called a meeting of Bostonians and citizens from neighboring towns at Faneuil Hall to respond to the arrival of the Dartmouth and its cargo of East India Company tea. Sam Adams estimated the size of the crowd to be 5000 and…
-
On this day 250 years ago, the Dartmouth, carrying 114 chests of tea, sailed into Boston Harbor. Source: https://www.masshist.org/revolution/teaparty.php#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%2028%20November%2C%20the,is%20called%20at%20Faneuil%20Hall. Today, November 28, 2023, at 11:00 am Eastern, the City of Boston will lay wreaths at the graves of Samuel Adams and John Hancock to commemorate the response of Adams, Hancock and the Sons of Liberty to…
-
On this day 250 years ago, the “Committee for Tarring and Feathering” sent a public letter to river pilots threatening them as the committee’s name implies if they assisted Captain Ayers and the Polly in docking to unload the ship’s cargo of tea in Philadelphia. Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.14303100/?st=text
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
On This Day In The Revolution 