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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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On this day 250 years ago, The Massachusetts Spy published a letter by someone writing under the pseudonym “Locke” addressed to The American Colonies with a clarion call to rebellion: “YOUR exertions in the great cause of freedom have been noble; and they must be continued with redoubled vigour. The time is now come which…
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On this day 250 years ago the Sons of Liberty in New York led by Isaac Sears were expecting the arrival of a ship carrying East India Company. They were prepared to block it from unloading its contents but the ship had been blown off course in a storm and would not arrive until April.…
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On this day 250 years ago, George Washington dined with Peyton Randolph at Randolph’s home in Williamsburg, Virginia. We do not know what they talked about but at that time Randolph was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses and Washington was a leading Member of the House of Burgesses. Only 17 months later Randolph…
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On this day 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence issued a joint letter with the committees of correspondence of the towns in the vicinity of Boston that proclaimed: Our rights have been for several years invaded by cruel and remorseless enemies; sometimes they have acted with open violence, at other times they have…
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On this day 250 years ago, “Junius Brutus” (which may have been a pseudonym used by the publisher), wrote in Peter Timothy’s South Carolina Gazette that “a Tax of the value of one penny levied upon us without our consent, as effectually takes away our liberty, as if the sum were a million.” The Patriots made it clear…
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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…
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