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On this day 250 years ago, Commodore Esek Hopkins and the Continental Navy fleet he commanded sailed into the harbor at New London, Connecticut with the prizes, prisoners, artillery and gunpowder seized in their raid to the Bahamas and return cruise to America. https://revolutionarywar.us/year-1776/battle-of-nassau/ On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Joseph…
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On this day 250 years ago, off the Virginia Capes (in other words the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay), the brig USS Lexington, with about 20 guns and a crew of around 100 men commanded by Captain John Barry captured the smaller British sloop HMS Edward after an hour-long fight. Two American sailors were killed and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress declared economic independence from Great Britain by resolving that Americans could ship exports to every nation except Great Britain. The Congress also Resolved, That no slaves be imported into any of the thirteen United Colonies. Source: Vol. IV, 1776, Journals of the Continental Congress,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, John Winthrop, who was the Professor of Mathematics and several times acting president of Harvard College, member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the Judge of Probate of Middlesex County, and an advocate for Independence wrote to John Adams: We have intire confidence in the wisdom and…
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On this day 259 years ago the Fourth Provincial Congress of North Carolina convened in Halifax. As one of its first orders of business the Congress named a committee of seven members to investigate “the usurpations and violences . . . by . . . Great Britain against America.” The President of the North Carolina…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Members of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts — John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine and Elbridge Gerry — wrote to James Warren — the President of the Council of Massachusetts who also served as the President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. In…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, wrote to General George Washington: It gives me the most sensible Pleasure to convey to you, by Order of Congress, the only Tribute, which a free People will ever consent to Pay; the Tribute of Thanks and Gratitude to…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress resolved That a treasury office of accounts, accountable to the standing committee for the treasury, shall be created. That an auditor general shall be appointed by Congress, “for stating, arranging, and keeping the public accounts.” Also on this day 250 years ago, the Congress…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams with her views that liberty was not a right to be enjoyed only by white men: I have sometimes been ready to think that the passion for Liberty cannot be Eaquelly Strong in the Breasts of those who…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress appointed two immigrants from Germany — John Gaspar Stadler and Lt. Felix Lewis Massenbach — as Engineers for the Southern Department reporting to Major General Charles Lee. John Gaspar Stadler had come to America before 1758 and was farming in Spotsylvania County, Virginia at…
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