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On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere was on horseback carrrying important news to his fellow Patriots. Longfellow wrote a poem about only one of his many rides but Revere was the main rider who carried news from the Boston Committee of Correspondence to other Committees. He rode out of Boston on December 17…
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On this day 250 years ago at midnight, Patriots in Marshfield, Massachusetts confiscated tea from the Ordinary as a protest against the Crown, emulating the actions of their fellow Patriots in Boston three days earlier. The Ordinary is still standing in Marshfield today, located at 2000 Ocean Street. After taking the tea, the Patriots knelt…
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On this day 250 years ago, the North Carolina Assembly organized its Committee of Correspondence, naming Cornelius Harnett as Chairman and John Harvey, Robert Howe, Richard Caswell, Edward Vail, John Ashe, Joseph Hewes, Samuel Johnston, and William Hooper as members. These men all ended up leading the Patriots and were the Founding Fathers of North Carolina. Sources: https://www.ncpedia.org/committees-correspondence https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/committees-of-correspondence/
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On this day 250 years ago mass meetings were held in both Charleston and New York City to make plans for blocking the sale of British East India Company tea. A general meeting of the inhabitants of Charleston chaired by George Gabriel Powell met in the Exchange to address the tea aboard the ship London…
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On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of Boston had a tea party and threw 342 chests of tea (weighing 92,000 pounds and worth approximately $1.5 million in US dollars today) into Boston Harbor. There are many misconceptions (italicized below) about the Boston Tea Party: The Patriots called it the “Boston Tea Party”. The…
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On this day 250 years ago the Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York published Resolves that declared “That whoever shall be aiding, or assisting, in the landing, or carting of [East India Company] tea, from any ship, or vessel, or shall hire any house, store-house, or cellar or any place whatsoever, to…
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On this day 250 years ago thousands of Patriots from Boston and towns across Massachusetts gathered at the Old South Meeting House to discuss how to prevent British East India Company tea from being unloaded from the ships in Boston Harbor. Samuel Phillips Savage of Weston, Massachusetts, was chosen as the moderator of the meeting. Source: https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-final-straw
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On this day 250 years ago, The Boston Gazette printed a letter from Patriots in Philadelphia dated December 4 that challenged Bostonians to prevent the importation of East India Company tea: “Our Tea Consignees have all resign’d, and you need not fear; the Tea will not be landed here or at New-York. All that we…
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On this day 250 years ago, according to some sources, “the citizens of Lexington ‘had unanimously resolved against the use of Bohea tea of all sorts, Dutch or English importation,’ gathered all the tea they could in town and burned it in public.” Other sources say the bonfire occurred on December 13. Perhaps they started…
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On this day 250 years ago, Samuel Adams and the Boston Committee of Correspondence issued an order to Francis Rotch, the owner of the Dartmouth and Beaver, to set sail for London without unloading the East India Company tea onboard the ships. Francis Rotch apparently wanted to comply, but Royal Governor Hutchinson refused to allow…
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