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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia the Continental Congress adopted these resolutions: 1. Resolved, that a post be immediately taken and fortified at or near King’s bridge in the colony of New York, that the ground be chosen with a particular view to prevent the communication between the city of New York and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Peyton Randolph resigned from the Continental Congress to return to Virginia to be Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses and President of the Virginia Convention. John Hancock of Massachusetts was unanimously to succeed Randolph as President of the Continental Congress. Source: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/08/the-second-continental-congress-convenes/ On this day 250…
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On this day 250 years ago, three independent American legislatures convened with no authorization from the British Government. In Trenton, New Jersey, 83 representatives from 13 counties met as the New Jersey Provincial Congress. They elected German immigrant Hendrick Fisher, Jr. , a farmer, mechanic, preacher and founder of what is now Rutgers University, as…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the First Provincial Congress of New York convened with Peter Van Brugh Livingston as president. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Provincial_Congress; https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-7/new-york-city-during-the-revolution; https://archive.org/details/journalsofprovin01newy/page/6/mode/2up On this day 250 years ago at Tarpaulin Cove, the HMS Falcon captured an American brig. However, two marines and the purser’s steward of the Falcon deserted to the Americans.…
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On this day 250 years ago, two British sloops and an armed schooner with about 100 soldiers sailed out of Boston to Grape Island on the southern end of Boston Bay to gather hay from the farm of the Loyalist who owned the island. Nearly 2000 militia from Hingham and surrounding towns, including John Adams’…
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On this day 250 years ago in Exeter, the Third New Hampshire Provincial Congress created a Committee of Safety and named General Nathaniel Folsom as commander of the 2,000 man New Hampshire contingent of the New England Army beseiging Boston. Most of these 2000 New Hampshire men were already in Massachusetts participating in the siege.…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlottetown (now Charlotte), North Carolina the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety was meeting when the news arrived of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The meeting was chaired by Abraham Alexander, Charles McKnit Alexander was secretary and the other members of the Committee were later identified as Thomas…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Third New Hampshire Provincial Congress passed a resolution to raise troops“to join in the common cause of defending our just rights and liberties.” On this day 250 years ago on the northern end of Lake Champlain in the Quebec province of Canada, Col. Benedict Arnold and Capt. Eleazar…
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On this day 250 years ago in Exeter, the Fourth Provincial Congress of New Hampshire meets and begins acting as the governing body of the colony. Source: On this day 250 years ago “the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Coxsackie District, in the County of Albany,” New York resolved never to become Slaves; and do also…
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On this day 250 years ago in Hanna’s Town, Pennsylvania, “a general meeting of the inhabitants of the County of Westmoreland” adopted the Hanna’s Town Resolves that: Resolved unanimously, That the Parliament of Great Britain, by several late acts, have declared the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay to be in Rebellion, and the ministry, by endeavoring…
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