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On this day 250 years ago the Continental Congress resolved That six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia; that each company consist of a captain, three lieutenants, four serjeants, four corporals, a drummer or trumpeter, and sixty-eight privates. That each company, as soon as completed,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Patriot militia surrounded Governor John Wentworth’s house to demand the arrest of Loyalist John Fenton, who was dining with Wentworth and his family. When the militia brought up a cannon, Wentworth surrendered Fenton. That night, Wentworth, his wife, and their young son fled their home…
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On this day 250 years ago, in the first naval battle of the Revolutionary War, about 50 Americans led by Captains Jeremiah O’Brien and Benjamin Foster in the Unity and the Falmouth Packet captured the HMS Margaretta off Machias, Maine. The British lost three killed, including their commander Midshipman James Moore, who was fatally wounded, with…
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On this day 250 years ago in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), Loyalist Ichabod Jones, Midshipman James Moore, commander of the HMS Margaretta, and some of his officers are attending services when the Sons of Liberty of Machias approached the church with plans to arrest them. Jones and Moore escaped from the church but…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia House of Burgesses unanimously adopted Resolutions on Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal. The Resolutions had been drafted by Thomas Jefferson and included the following arguments against British rule: the British Parliament has no right to intermeddle with the support of civil government in the Colonies. For…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress RESOLVED, That no Obedience being due to the Act of Parliament for altering the Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, nor to a Governor or Lieutenant Governor, who will not observe the Directions of, but endeavour to subvert, that Charter, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia’s last Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, with his family fled the Governor’s Palace to the safety of the HMS Fowey in the York River. With his departure from Williamsburg, government of Virginia was entirely under the command of the Virginia Convention except where and when British soldiers were ashore.…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the New York Provincial Congress wrote to the Continental Congress that in the case a Continental army should be established by authority of your respectable body . . . we are unanimous in the choice of Colo. Philip Schuyler and Capt. Richard Montgomerie, to the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina’s Provincial Congress authorized the formation of two regiments of infantry (the 1st and 2nd South Carolina Regiments) and a third regiment of mounted riflemen (Ranger Regiment). On this day 250 years ago in Machias, Maine the people generally assembled at the place appointed, and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, while the Royal Governor and Loyalists had a dinner at the courthouse to celebrate the King’s birthday, the Liberty Boys erected a Liberty Pole in view of the courthouse and then proceeded to Peter Tondee’s Tavern to toast the King — and then toasted to “American…
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