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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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On this day 250 years ago Josiah Flagg conducted a “final Grand Concert” at Faneuil Hall with about 50 players from the militia band of Boston that he had organized. Flagg later served as a Patriot lieutenant colonel during the Revolution. Source: https://prabook.com/web/josiah.flagg/3767419
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At the end of October 250 years ago, famed poet Phillis Wheatley was a free woman. At some point in October (I have not discovered the exact date) the Wheatley family that had enslaved her manumitted her from slavery immediately following her return from London where her book Reflections on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral…
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On this day 250 years ago, the fifth installment of The Alarm, written by Alexander McDougall under the pseudonym “Hampden”, was published in New York City. The publication ended with a pledge to boycott tea and threat to anyone who attempted to import tea: “We the subscribers, do agree, that we will not import, or…
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On this day 250 years ago, George Washington arrived in Williamsburg for a sojourn of more than a month. He had dinner in the Raleigh Tavern. During his previous visit to Williamsburg in March, Washington had participated in the House of Burgesses’ formation of Virginia’s Committee of Correspondence, and on his next visit in May…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Gazette published a letter from “Scaevola” (Thomas Mifflin of Philadelphia) entitled “BY UNITING WE STAND — BY DIVIDING WE FALL To the Commissioners appointed by the EAST INDIA COMPANY For the SALE of TEA in AMERICA.” In this letter, Mifflin warned the commisioners “to save YOURSELVES much…
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Moravian missionaries established a church (their second) at Schoenbrunn, Ohio for Delaware Indians. These “praying Indians” were friendly to American colonists and provided supplies and information to American forces during the Revolution. Because of their pacifism, however they tried to remain neutral during the war but were mistrusted by both sides. In the worst atrocity…
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