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On this day 250 years ago to the New Hampshire delegation in the Continental Congress wrote to Meshach Weare, Chairman of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety to obtain instructions from home as to how they should vote on Independence: The Convention of Virginia have instructed their delegates to use their endeavors that Congress should…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the committee chaired by Archibald Cary presented to the Virginia Convention the Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason. After consultation with the committee, Mason had added several additional articles to his first draft including that all men, having sufficient evidence of a permanent common interest with,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Virginia, Lord Dunmore’s fleet of 100 vessels, primarily small boats carrying Loyalists and escaped slaves but also including the HMS Fowey, HMS Otter, HMS Dunmore and HMS Roebuck, and British soldiers and marines and the “Ethiopian Regiment” of escaped slaves and Loyalist soldiers enlisted by Dunmore, sailed from…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Committee of Inspection and Observation of the City of Philadelphia submitted an “address” to the Continental Congress responding to the “Remonstrance” that the Pennsylvania Assembly had submitted to Congress the previous day. The Assembly was requesting the Congress to ignore the Committee’s demand that the Assembly…
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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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