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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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On this day 250 years ago, in Savannah, the Georgia Gazette published a letter written by “Margaret Homespun” urging women to boycott East India Company tea. She reasoned that “the principal bone of contention (to wit the article of tea) lies altogether between the Parliament of Great-Britain and the Women of America,” so “silence in…
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On this day 250 years ago in Alexandria, Virginia, the Fairfax Independent Company under George Washington’s command drilled during the day. That night, the Fairfax County Committee, chaired by Washington, passed a resolution stating As well regulated militia, composed of gentlemen, freeholders, and other freemen, is the natural strength and only staple security of a…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Alexandria, Virginia, George Washington wrote in his diary that he “Went up to Alexandria to a review of the Independant Company & to choose a Com[mitt]ee for the County of Fairfax.” George Mason accompanied Washington to Alexandria for the Committee of Safety meeting. Washington was the Commander of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, Massachusetts, James Warren wrote to his good friend John Adams: I Admire the Notes and Resolves of the Maryland Convention. They Breath a Spirit of Liberty and Union which does Honour to them and Indeed the whole Continent. I am greatly puzzled to determine what Consequences the…
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