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On this day 250 years ago in the village of Sartigan, Quebec Province of Canada, Col. Benedict Arnold wrote that two Penobscot Indians “who appeared friendly . . . assisted us over the Portage” into Canada and had guided him to the village. Other Native Americans, both Penobscots and Abenakis had also aided the expedition.…
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On this day 250 years ago off Canso, Nova Scotia, Captains Nicholson Broughton and John Selman commanding the USS Hancock and Franklin respectively captured the schooners Prince William and Mary although both schooners would be subsequently released by General Washington as noncombatant ships that were not involved in supplying Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Broughton On this day 250 years ago in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Continental Army companies commanded by Captains Daniel Morgan, Matthew Smith, William Hendricks, Henry Dearborn, Oliver Hanchett, William Goodrich, Samuel Ward, Simeon Thayer, and John Topham entered Canada from Maine. Several companies that had taken the wrong route and stragglers would catch up with them over the next few…
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On this day 250 years ago, the 14-gun sloop HMS Otter anchored in the Hampton River to bombard the town while the HMS Hawke and three other tenders, shallow draft vessels, carried landing parties with orders to burn the Town of Hampton. Fifty members of the Culpeper Minute Battalion, led by Col. William Woodford and Capt.…
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On this day 250 years ago, Lt. Matthew Squire of the Royal Navy commanding a flotilla of the 14-gun HMS Otter, the sloop HMS Hawke, another sloop and two tenders, entered the Hampton River to bombard Hampton, Virginia. The 25 men of Capt. George Nicholas’s company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment on one side of…
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This evening 250 years ago, four British tenders from the HMS Otter raided homes on Mill Creek at the mouth of the Hampton River in Virginia. This was the beginning of the first combat of the Revolution in Virginia and would continue for the the next two days. This weekend, October 25-26, 2025, there is…
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On this day 250 years ago at his camp in Roxbury, Massachusetts besieging Boston, General John Thomas replied to a letter from Congressman John Adams passing on criticism of the Massachusetts regiments voiced by some of the members of the Continental Congress from the Southern colonies: I am Sorrey to hear that any Prejudice Should…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General William Heath wrote to John Adams that There are in the Massachusetts Regiments some few lads and old men, and in several regiments, some negroes. Among the African Americans serving in the Massachusetts regiments are Privates Jacob Francis, Cuff Chambers (then known as Cuff Blanchard),…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Peyton Randolph died at age 54 of a stroke while having dinner with his cousin and fellow delegate to the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson. Although little known today, Randolph was the first President of the Continental Congress and the President of the first three Virginia Conventions. He…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John attending the Continental Congress an interesting account of a man named Haskings who had escaped from Boston: He had been in Irons 3 weeks, some malicious fellow having said that he saw him at the Battle of Lexinton, but…
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