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On this day 250 years ago in South Carolina, Capt. Samuel Boykin’s company of 25 Catawba Indians skirmished with 20 British regulars across Breach Inlet between Sullivan’s Island and Long Island (now Isle of Palms). Because the inlet was 180 yards wide there were no reported casualties on either side. However, this was only a…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, a committee comprising James Cannon, Thomas Nevil, John Chaloner, Andrew Epley, and William Thorne published a broadside urging Pennsylvania’s Military Associators (i.e., voluntary militia) to select delegates to the upcoming constitutional convention of “honesty, common sense, and a plain understanding, when unbiased by sinister motives” and warned…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia: A Declaration of the deputies of Pensylvania, met in provincial conference, was presented to Congress, and read; expressing their willingness to concur in a vote of Congress, declaring the United Colonies Free and Independent States. Source: Journals…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Delegate Archibald Cary submitted to the Virginia Convention the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia drafted by his committee. The draft was primarily the work of George Mason with input from separate proposals prepared by Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson (and also by John Adams…
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On this day 250 years ago at the home of bricklayer Jacob Graff and his wife Maria Graff in Philadelphia, where he was residing while in the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson made edits to his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence after receiving comments from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The Graff House stood…
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On this day 250 years ago in Burlington, the New Jersey Provincial Congress elected Richard Stockton, Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, and the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon as Delegates to represent the Colony of New Jersey in the Continental Congress and directed them to join with the Delegates of the other Colonies in Continental…
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On this day 250 years ago in Burlington, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey declared Governor William Franklin to be “a virulent enemy to this country, and a person that may prove dangerous.” Although he was the son of Patriot leader Benjamin Franklin who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the New Jersey Provincial Congress…
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On this day 250 years ago at Natick, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a town meeting unanimously voted that we the inhabitants of Natick, in town-meeting assembled, do hereby declare . . . that, should the honourable Continental Congress declare these American Colonies independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we will, with our lives and fortunes, join with the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Colonel Nathanael Heard arrested New Jersey Governor William Franklin and brought him to the Provincial Congress at Burlington. Sources: https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/congress-imprison-governor-william-franklin.html
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On this day 250 years ago at Fort Chambly in Canada, Brig. Gen. John Sullivan and his officers held a council of war and concluded that “we are driven to the sad necessity of abandoning Canada” because the men were “lifeless” suffering from “small-pox, famine and disorder.” The Continentals burned the forts at Chambly and…
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