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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, John Winthrop, the President of the Massachusetts Council wrote to General Washington in New York: In consequence of the measures taken by this Government to Engage a number of Indians of the Penobscott, St Johns and Mickmac Tribes in the Service of the united States of America…
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On this day 250 years ago, in New York the British 16th Light Dragoons disembarked from 11 transports. The transports had anchored in New York Harbor the previous day and had been escorted to New York in a convoy guarded by a British warship but one transport brig had gotten separated in a storm and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Salem, Massachusetts, Richard Derby, Jr., of the Salem Committee of Safety and Correspondence wrote to the Massachusetts Council to pass along to General Washington that the state brigantine Massachusetts, commanded by Capt. Daniel Souther, had captured the British brig Henry and Ann transporting “a Capt: & about 20…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris, acting as the Secret Committee of the Continental Congress, wrote to Silas Deane in Paris, France, informing him that he had been appointed with Franklin as one of the Commissioners for negotiating a “Treaty of Commerce and Alliance between the Court of…
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On this day 250 years ago on Manhattan Island in New York, Maj. Andrew Leitch of Prince William County, Virginia died of the wounds he had received two week earlier in the battle of Harlem Heights. He was buried next to Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton of Connecticut, who was also killed in the Battle of…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York the Continental Army was bracing for an imminent attack that turned out not be imminent. General Washington issued Orders to the entire Army: The movements of the Enemy indicating a speedy Attack, the officers of the several Regiments, of all Ranks, are to be very attentive…
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On this day 250 years ago near the ruins of the Cherokee town of Nikwasi (present-day Franklin, North Carolina), Lt. William Lenoir of the North Carolina militia commanded by Brig. Gen. Griffith Rutherford recorded that we marchd by whare the South army fought the Battle saw the Dead Indians lying & where the buried their…
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On this date 250 years ago at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Convention adopted a Constitution for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The first Pennsylvania Constitution was the most democratic and forward-looking of the constitutions of the 14 states during the Revolution (Vermont adopted its first constitution while the Revolution was underway). It was so…
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On this 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Virginia Congressman Richard Henry Lee wrote to Thomas Jefferson who had returned to Virginia about his appointment as one of the Commissioners to France: The plan of foreign treaty is just finished, and yourself, with Doctor Franklin, and Mr. Deane now in France, are the Trustees to execute…
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On this day 250 years ago in Rye, Westchester County, New York, 67-year-old Col. Jonathan Pettibone of Simsbury, Conn., commander of the 18th Regiment of Connecticut militia died of illness, the day after Gen. Washington discharged his regiment to return to Connecticut. Col. Pettibone left his sword to his son Jonathan who served as a…
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