On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago, George Washington was visiting the home of his sister-in-law Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett (Martha Washington’s sister) and her husband Burwell Bassett Sr. Burwell Bassett was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses with Washington and would join his brother-in-law as a member of the First and Second Virginia…

On this day 250 years ago George Washington was authorized to survey 10,000 acres along the Kanawha River in western Virginia (now in West Virginia) by the Virginia Governor’s Council. He had been granted 5000 acres for his service in the French and Indian War and purchased the remaining acreage from other officers who had…

On this day 250 years Patriots in both Boston and New York City held public meetings to organize opposition to the importation of East India Company tea. The Sons of Liberty in New York organized a huge crowd outside of the King’s Arms coffeehouse to protest the tea then on its way to New York.…

On this day 250 years ago Elizabeth Griscom of Philadelphia ran off to New Jersey to elope with John Ross. You will recognize her and her contributions to American independence under the name “Betsy Ross”. Source: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/betsy-ross

On this day 250 years ago, citizens of Boston met under the Liberty Tree and adopted the Resolutions of the Town of Boston written by Sam Adams that resolved “That a virtuous and steady opposition to the Ministerial Plan of governingAmerica, is absolutely necessary to preserve even the shadow of Liberty, and is a duty…

On this day 250 years ago the Sons of Liberty in Boston delivered the following letter to one of the consignees of the tea then on ships on their way to Boston: The Freemen of this Province understand, from good authority, that there is a quantity of tea consigned to your house by the East…

On this day 250 years ago, the Cambridge, Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence issued a letter asserting: If we cease to assert Our rights we shall dwindle into supineness and the chains of slavery shall be fast rivetted upon us … The late act of the British Parliament impowering the East India Company to export tea…

On this day 250 years ago, Sarah Franklin Bache wrote her father Benjamin Franklin in London that she was “much disapointed at your not coming home this Fall.” Franklin was serving as the agent of the American colonies in London and was working to convince the British Government to change its policies oppressing the Colonies.…

On this day 250 years ago, the British 23rd Regiment of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers), and the 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery, paraded on the outskirts of New York City before the Royal Governor and a large crowd of New Yorkers. The military maneuvers by these units, which were garrisoned in New York City,…