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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis Warren wrote John Adams to pass along intelligence she had gathered on the War’s progress in Boston: The ships which Arrived Last Fryday are from Halifax with a few petatoes and a Little wood. The people there are in Expectation of an Attack from…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Horatio Gates writing on behalf of the commander General George Washington sent this letter to Reuben Colburn “of Gardnerstone, upon the River Kennebeck in The Province of Massachusetts Bay.” You are to go with all Expedition to Gardnerstone upon the River Kenebeck, and without Delay…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General Washington issued an order to Captain Nicholson Broughton of Marblehead, Massachusetts to Some historians consider the 78-ton schooner Hannah to be the first ship of the US Navy. It was certainly the first ship of the US Armed Forces. Sources: “Instructions to Captain Nicholson Broughton,…
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On this day 250 years ago, there was continued fighting at Roxbury and on Plowed Hill in the siege lines around Boston. Lt. Paul Lunt recorded in his journal that Last night a number of cannon was fired at Roxbury, and small arms; . . . a great number of small arms fired at the…
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On this day 250 years ago in York, Pennsylvania, the “Officers of Minutemen in York County” wrote to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety Five companies are already raised and most of the officers chosen. Several of the companies are large, about 100 each, partly in order to be at full strength even if all the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Stonington, Connecticut, the militia companies commanded by Captains William Stanton and Oliver Smith fended off a raid by tenders from the HMS Rose trying to seize cattle. In retaliation, the Rose bombarded the town but as subsequently reported our enemies, at the moderate Account, fired nearest a Thousand…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Washington wrote Congressman Richard Henry Lee of Virginia that we have only 184. Barls of Powder in all (including the late supply from Philadelphia) wch is not sufficient to give 25. Musket Cartridges to each man, and scarcely to serve the Artillery in any brisk…
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On this day 250 years ago on Ploughed Hill, the Continental Army troops besieging Boston were again bombarded by British artillery. First Lieutenant Paul Lunt of his cousin Captain Ezra Lunt’s Company from Newburyport of Colonel Moses Little’s 17th Regiment of Massachusetts recorded in his diary that some cannon fired in the afternoon; killed one…
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On this day 250 years ago on Ploughed Hill in Charlestown (now called Mount Ursuline in Somerset), Massachusetts, Continental Army troops commanded by Brigadier General John Sullivan were bombarded by British cannon in fortifications they had erected the day before. The British fired cannon from their nearby fortifications on Bunker Hill and from two floating…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Third Virginia Convention adjourned. As its final act the Convention adopted a Declaration that recited multiple actions by the Royal Governor that were irrefragable proof of his fixed determination to do this unhappy country every iujury in his power Accordingly, the Convention resolved that: In the…
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