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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress recommended that . . . able bodied effective men, between sixteen and fifty years of age in each colony, immediately form themselves into regular companies of Militia, to consist of one Capt*, two lieutenants, one ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, one clerk, one drummer,…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Henrico Parish Church (now St. John’s Church in Richmond), Virginia, the Third Virginia Convention convened. Source: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-virginia-revolutionary-conventions-1774-1776/ On this day 250 years ago in Exeter, New Hampshire, Matthew Patten recorded in his diary that There was 4 of Goffestown Committee aud 4 of Merrymac and 2 from…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. She reported among other things that: The appointment of the Generals Washington and Lee, gives universal satisfaction. The people have the highest opinion of Lees abilities, but you know the continuation of the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Resolution introduced by Benjamin Franklin that Whereas, the government of Great Britain hath prohibited the exportation of arms and ammunition to any of the plantations, and endeavoured to prevent other nations from supplying us: Resolved, That for the better furnishing these colonies…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington issued General Orders to the Continental Army on Cleanliness: As the Health of an Army principally depends upon Cleanliness; it is recommended in the strongest manner, to the Commanding Officer of Corps, Posts and Detachments, to be strictly diligent, in ordering the Necessarys…
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On this day 250 years ago in Bedford, New Hampshire, Irish immigrant, salmon fisherman, justice of the peace, and committee of safety member Matthew Patten recorded that I weut to Amherst to judge Esqur Whiting for his being a Tory and I took two Salmon with me that weighed 20 £ I sold one to…
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On this day 250 years ago, a detachment of two companies of Rangers (53 men) from the newly-formed 3rd South Carolina Regiment commanded by Major James Mayson and Captains John Caldwell and Moses Kirkland, captured Fort Charlotte in western South Carolina as the first military action in the South Carolina interior in the Revolution. The…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress received a report that two companies of riflemen had been raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, instead of one. The Congress resolved that “both the companies be taken into the continental service” and requested that 50 of the Pennsylvania recruits with prior military experience be…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress approved a resolve for supplying the Penobscot Indians with gunpowder . . . as follows, viz. : Whereas, application has been made to this Congress, by Capt. John Lane, agent for the Penobscot tribe of Indians, for a small quantity of powder, for…
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On this day 250 years ago two barges with South Carolina militia commanded by Captain John Barnwell and Captain John Joyner, an immigrant from England) and the Georgia ship Liberty commanded by Captain Oliver Bowen captured the HMS Phillippa and the supply ship it was escorting near Bloody Point on Tybee Island, Georgia. The Liberty “hoisted at…
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