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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the committee of the Virginia Convention charged with drafting a Declaration of Rights completed its work and began circulating the draft Declaration within Virginia and to other colonies the next day. The draft Declaration was almost entirely the work of George Mason with only a few edits…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson moved into the home of bricklayer Jacob Graff and his wife Maria. Jefferson would prepare drafts of the Declaration of Independence and Virginia Constitution in this house. He would lodge in a room here until September 3, 1776 when he left the Continental Congress to…
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On this day 250 years ago in Fishkill, New York, the Third Provincial Congress was organized. It continued in session until June 30, 1776. The Royal Governor of New York was on a Royal Navy ship in the harbor waiting for the British Army to restore him to power. The Third Provincial Congress of New…
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On this day 250 years ago in Bedford, New Hampshire, Matthew Patten recorded in his diary the death of his son John I got an account of my Johns Death of the Small Pox at Canada and when I came home my wife had got a letter from Bob which gave us a particular account…
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On this day 250 years ago, the town meeting of Brookline, Massachusetts, resolved that if the Hon. Congress Should for the Safety of the American Colonies, Declare them Independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, that we said inhabitants will Solemnly engage with our Lives and fortune to support them in the measure. The Brookline…
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On this day 250 years ago, at Nantasket, Massachusetts the USS Franklin commanded by Captain James Mugford had sailed out of Boston along with the USS Lady Washington to hunt for more British prizes. Only two days earlier, Mugford had captured the Hope with an enormous cargo of gunpowder in perhaps the greatest prize of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress received and read a “letter from General Washington, and three letters from the commissioners in Canada”. John Adams wrote to James Warren that the letters reported “the Dismals from Canada. Defeated most ignominiously.” And the reports from Canada were to become even more dismal.…
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On this day 250 years ago at Nantasket Roads, off the coast of Massachusetts, the USS Franklin, a cruiser with four guns and 21 men commanded by Capt. James Mugford, captured the British supply ship Hope. The Hope mounted six cannon with a crew of 18 and had gotten separated from the convoy it had…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Philosophical Hall in Philadelphia a meeting of a number of persons to consider what steps might be necessary to take, on the dissolution of government . . . concluded to call a convention with speed; to protest against the present Assembly’s doing any business in their House…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia Convention Resolved, unanimously, That the Delegates appointed to represent this Colony in General Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the Crown or Parliament of Great…
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