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  • February 24, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, Royal Governor Sir James Wright reported to Lord Dartmouth that a customs collector who had seized smuggled hogsheads of molasses and sugar with the help of sailors from the Royal Navy was attacked by “a large number of people, with their faces smutted and armed with…

  • February 23, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago in New York City, Alexander Hamilton’s The Farmer Refuted was published. Hamilton made the following points in his pamphlet responding to a Loyalist pamphlet supporting Parliament’s authority over the American colonies: there is a supreme intelligence, who rules the world, and has established laws to regulate the actions of…

  • February 22, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago, in Staunton, Virginia, the freeholders of Augusta County met to select delegates to the Second Virginia Convention and thought proper to refer the choice of their delegates to the judgment of the committee, who, thus authorized by the general voice of the people, met at the courthouse . .…

  • February 21, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, Captain Thomas Marshall of the Fauquier County Independent Company dined (i.e., had lunch because dinner was the mid-day meal then) with George Washington and formally offered Washington command of the Fauquier Company. That evening William Grayson lodged with Washington and presumably discussed the Prince William…

  • February 20, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago in Newport, Rhode Island the Newport Mercury reported that “Last Tuesday the militia of this town were mustered and exercised, when they performed extremely well, considering there has not been a muster here before upwards of ten years.” Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/the-organization-of-the-rhode-island-militia-1774-1783/#_edn16 n.17 Also on that day in Wilmington, North Carolina, Francis…

  • February 19, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago off the coast of Mysore in India, 2 boats of Sultan Hyder Ali attacked the HMS Seahorse but were defeated. This engagement is most remembered in history because it was the first combat experienced by 16-year-old Midshipman Horatio Nelson. Of relevance to this blog it is important to remember…

  • February 18, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago at Mosby’s Tavern, then serving as the courthouse for Cumberland County, Virginia, the Cumberland County Committee passed the Cumberland Resolves in opposition to the Intolerable Acts and in support of the Continental Association. Source: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=33105 [note — The only source I have found for the Cumberland Resolves is this…

  • February 17, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago in New York City a report subsequently published in Holt’s Journal stated that It is said that at least three-fourths of the people in Cortlandt’s manor, New York, have declared their unwillingness to enter into the Congressional measures, that a great number of the people in general in Westchester…

  • February 16, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago in Prince William County, Virginia, Captain James Scott, Jr. of the Fauquier Independent Company wrote to George Washington, on behalf of himself and Captain Thomas Marshall, to offer Washington command of Fauquier Company. Both Scott and Marshall had served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and Virginia Convention with…

  • February 15, 2025

    On this day 250 years ago the Massachusetts Provincial Congress passed resolutions stating: That Mr. [Samuel] Adams, Major [Joseph] Hawley, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Hon. Mr. [Thomas] Cushing, Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine, Col. [Joseph] Palmer, and Mr. [Benjamin] Freeman, be a committee to bring in a resolve holding up to the people of this province, the…

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  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 28, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago at his Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote to Phillis Wheatley: I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 27, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of North Carolina defeated the Highlander Loyalists of North Carolina at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge. At 1:00 am on that day the Highlanders began their six-mile march to Moores Creek Bridge, leaving behind their commander Brig. Gen. Donald MacDonald sick in his tent. When the…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 26, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago, at Corbett’s Ferry on the Black River in North Carolina, Col. Richard Caswell learned that the thousand-man Loyalist Highlander Regiment commanded by British Gen. Donald MacDonald had early that morning crossed the Black River a few miles north of his position and was outflanking Caswell on their march to…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 28, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago at his Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington wrote to Phillis Wheatley: I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 27, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of North Carolina defeated the Highlander Loyalists of North Carolina at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge. At 1:00 am on that day the Highlanders began their six-mile march to Moores Creek Bridge, leaving behind their commander Brig. Gen. Donald MacDonald sick in his tent. When the…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — February 26, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago, at Corbett’s Ferry on the Black River in North Carolina, Col. Richard Caswell learned that the thousand-man Loyalist Highlander Regiment commanded by British Gen. Donald MacDonald had early that morning crossed the Black River a few miles north of his position and was outflanking Caswell on their march to…

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