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On this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis Warren wrote to Abigail Adams that “It is and Ever has been my poor Opinion that justice and Liberty will finally Gain a Compleat Victory over Tyrany.” She then added an interesting observation: we have yet one Advantage peculier to ourselves. If the Mental…
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On this day 250 years ago in Bristol, England, merchants wrote to Richard Randolph in Virginia: We are very sorry to inform you that there seems little prospect of a speedy reconciliation between the Government here and the Colonies, for by a Letter received this day from our WJ (who with another Gentleman) was deputed…
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On this day 250 years ago the people of Pittsylvania County, Virginia met to organize a Committee to enforce the Continental Association’s boycott of trade with Britain. The Committee would become the governing body of Pittsylvania County when the War began. The meeting also adopted the Pittsylvania Resolves: THE freeholders of the county of Pittsylvania,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her friend Mercy Otis Warren about the British officers who had assaulted the Boston Watch a few days earlier (see my blog for January 21, 1775) Thus are we to be in continual hazard and Jeopardy of our lives from a Set…
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On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, Thomas Johnson wrote to his good friend George Washington at Mount Vernon, Virginia that he would forward to Washington copies of a plan for organization of the American militia prepared by Charles Lee. Johnson also said: There has been more Alacrity shewn by our people than…
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On this day 250 years ago, Mercy Otis Warren’s play The Group was published in the Boston Gazette. The play is a thinly disguised satire of leading Tories in Massachusetts that was widely circulated and praised (although I have to say as much as I have studied Massachusetts in 1775, it is quite hard for me…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, John Andrews wrote to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia about further outrages by the British troops: The Officers’ animosity to the watch still rankling in their breast, induc’d two of them to go last night to the watch house again at about 10 o’clock and threaten the watch…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, John Andrews wrote to his brother-in-law William Barrell in Philadelphia: Last evening a number of drunken Officers attacked the town house watch between eleven and 12 o’clock, when the assistance of the New Boston watch was call’d, and a general battle ensued ; some wounded on both…
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On this day 250 years ago, the freeholders of Fincastle County, Virginia met to elect a Committee to enforce the Continental Association and to govern the County in place of Royal authority. Fincastle County in 1775 was a huge territory that comprises multiple counties in southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia as well as all…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, Rivington’s Gazette published a letter from a loyalist in Hartford, Connecticut reporting that: The Governor of Connecticut called his counsel together on the 4th instant; their deliberations are kept very secret; but we are told they have ordered three hundred barrels of gunpowder, and lead…
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