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On this day 250 years ago on the road to Baltimore, Maryland, George Washington and Richard Henry Lee met up with their fellow delegates travelling to join the Continental Congress. Washington, Lee, Peyton Randolph, Edmund Pendleton and Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, and also Joseph Hewes and Richard Caswell of North Carolina, were escorted into by…
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On this day 250 years ago in James City County, Virginia, Carter Braxton rode the short distance to Doncastle’s Ordinary to meet with Patrick Henry. Braxton delivered to Henry a promissory note to pay for the gunpowder seized by Governor Dunmore. With their mission accomplished, the Hanover militia returned to their homes and Henry journeyed…
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On this day 250 years ago at Belgrade Farm in Perquimans County, North Carolina, John Harvey died from illness after earlier falling from his horse. Although not remembered by many today, Harvey was the leader of the North Carolina Provincial Congress and has been called the “Father of the American Revolution in North Carolina” by…
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On this day 250 years ago in Bedford, New Hampshire, Matthew Patten recorded in his diary: Shed forged a Guard and some Rods for pining on the Quills and Stock on the Gun and I attended a Meeting of the town on our affairs of the country and Capt Moor had a training and our…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Haven, the Connecticut Legislature commissioned David Wooster as a Major General in command of six regiments, with Joseph Spencer and Israel Putnam commissioned as Brigadier Generals.That day several other officers received their commissions and immediately began recruiting in Connecticut. Source: https://www.americanwars.org/ct-american-revolution/general-staff-officers-connecticut-1775.htm On this day 250 years year…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety met and recorded that Capt. Benedict Arnold, captain of a company from Connecticut, attended, and reported, that there are at Ticonderoga, 80 pieces of heavy cannon, 20 pieces of brass cannon, from 4 to 18 pounders, 10 to 12 mortars ; at…
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On this day 250 years ago, a mass meeting of more than 6000 of “the Freeholders, Freemen, and inhabitants of the City and County of New York” adopted a “General Association” that declared that the Salvation of the Rights and Liberties of America, depends under GOD, on the Union of its Inhabitants, in the vigorous…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Christian Febiger, an immigrant from Denmark, enlists as a private in the Massachusetts militia. Febiger serves heroically throughout the Revolution including at Bunker Hill, Quebec (where he was captured and imprisoned for eight months), Brandywine, Stony Point and in Virginia ending his service as a Brevet…
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On this day 250 years ago in Hartford, the Connecticut Assembly agreed to raise six regiments (6,000 troops) to join the New England Army besieging Boston. Source: https://revolutionarywar.us/continental-army/connecticut/ On this day 250 years in Watertown, Massachusetts, Dr. Joseph Warren as Chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety issued the following order to Captain Richard Derby…
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On this day 250 years ago on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean within sight of the Massachusetts shore, Josiah Quincy, Jr. died of tuberculosis. He had traveled to Britain on a secret mission to gather information from supporters of America there, and was returning to report to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren, on the…
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