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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the Committee of Sixty met to elect delegates to a Provincial Convention and to issue a circular letter to the counties, drafted by John Jay, which called on the other counties to send delegates to the Provincial Convention and set April 20 for the Convention…
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On this day 250 years ago at Sycamore Shoals (then claimed by North Carolina but now in Tennessee) the Grand Council of the Cherokee Nation convened to negotiate with the Transylvania Company led by Richard Henderson for the sale of land in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee. The Cherokee were led by Atta-Kulla-Kulla (known…
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On this day 250 years ago in what is now Westminster, Vermont, a group of about 100 unarmed Patriots are attacked by a Loyalist posse as they occupy the Westminster Courthouse. Ten men are shot when the posse fires into the crowd and two of them — 21-year old William French of Brattleboro and Daniel…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Samuel Adams wrote: I never had the least doubt in my Mind but that the Colony of South Carolina, which has distinguishd itself through all our Struggles for the Establishment of American Liberty, would approve and support the proceedings of the Continental Congress. . . . There…
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On this day 250 years ago, Dixon and Hunter’s Virginia Gazette publishes the Botetourt Resolutions adopted by the freeholders of Botetourt County, Virginia. These Resolutions were addressed to Col. Andrew Lewis and Mr. John Bowyer, Botetourt County’s representatives to the Virginia Convention and pledged the most dutiful affection for our Sovereign, of whose honest heart…
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On this day 250 years ago in Lebanon, Connecticut, Governor Jonathan Trumbull wrote to British Secretary Lord Dartmouth in London: It is with particular concern and anxiety that we see the unhappy situation of our fellow subjects in the town of Boston. . . . where we behold many thousands of His Majesty’s virtuous and…
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On this day 250 years ago, the New York General Advertiser reports A Union Flag, with a red field was hoisted on the Liberty Pole by the Friends of Freedom assembled, and having got in proper Readiness, about 11 O’clock, the Body began their March to the Exchange. They were attended by Music; and two…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Magazine publishes an anonymous article titled “African Slavery in America.” This article was one of the first publications in America proposing freedom for African-American slaves and the abolition of slavery. Thomas Paine was the editor of the The Pennsylvania Magazine and is often credited with writing…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, opponents of the Government’s policies meet in Grosvenor Square to discuss a plan for reconciliation with America, and also protest outside the Royal Exchange. Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10983/American-Revolution-Chronology- And in India, the British enter into the Treaty of Surat, further entangling the British military in warfare in India that…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren delivers the annual speech on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Warren’s stirring address included these lines that nearly provoked a riot that night in the streets of Boston: Our fathers having nobly resolved never to wear the…
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