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On this day 250 years ago in Phladelphia, the New York delegation to the Continental Congress requested instructions on how to respond to the expected arrival of additional British troops in New York City. In response the Congress Resolved, That it be recommended for the present to the inhabitants of New York, that if the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Buzzards Bay off the coast of Dartmouth, now Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the Patriots won their first naval victory in the Revolutionary War. The day before the HMS Falcon had detached a midshipman with a crew of 13 sailors on board a captured American sloop to seize another ship that…
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On this day 250 years in Philadelphia, John Jay from New York and Thomas Stone from Maryland arrived to join their delegations in the Continental Congress and The Congress accepted the credentials Lyman Hall as a delegate from the parish of St. John’s in the colony of Georgia. Lyman Hall was the first representative from Georgia…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the Provincial Congress adopted “by a very large margin” Joseph Warren’s motion that the Congress submit an application to the Continental Congress, for obtaining their recommendation for this colony to take up and exercise civil government Source: Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts at 219…
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On this day in Port Royal, Virginia, James Madison, Jr. (the future President) and a delegation from the Orange County, Virginia Committee delivered to Patrick Henry this letter: We, the committee for the county of Orange, having been fully informed of your seasonable and spirited proceedings in procuring a compensation for the powder fraudulently taken…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, a mob storms the home of the outspoken Loyalist Myles Cooper, President of King’s College (now Columbia University). Two students of King’s College, Alexander Hamilton and Robert Troup, stall the mob to allow Cooper to flee to a British ship that would carry him to…
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On this day 250 years ago, George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Peyton Randolph, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Joseph Hewes and Richard Caswell arrived in Philadelphia and dined at the City Tavern. They would take their seats in the Continental Congress the next day. Washington, Lee and Harrison stayed at the home of Joseph Reed, who…
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On this day 250 years ago, at Boonesborough, in what is now Kentucky, Richard Henderson and the other settlers in his party formally established the Transylvania Colony and designated Boonesborough as its capital. Although the Transylvania Colony would establish a government and be self-governing for the next couple of years during the Revolution, it was never…
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On this day 250 years ago at Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys rendezvoused at Castleton, Vermont, after taking various routes from Bennington and other locations to disguise their march. At the same time, Captain Noah Phelps of Connecticut had gone ahead to enter Fort Ticonderoga disguised as a peddler to gather intelligence before…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Royal Governor Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation against “a certain Patrick Henry, of the County of Hanover, and a Number of his deluded Followers.” Sources: https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-8/the-proclamation-against-patrick-henry; https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/dbva/items/show/314 On this day 250 years ago in Baltimore, Maryland, Col. George Washington and the other delegates reviewed four companies…
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