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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, Scottish immigrant Alexander MacDougall was commissioned as Colonel of the 1st New York Regiment and began organizing his regiment. The captain of the Regiment’s 1st Company was Frederick von Weissenfels, who was an immigrant from Prussia. Marinus Willet was named Captain of the 2nd Company.…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Rochelle, New York, Major General Philip Schuyler left General Washington’s party to head to return to New York City to command the Continental Army troops in New York. Generals Washington, Lee and their staff proceeded to Massachusetts to join the Continental Army besieging Boston. Source: http://daybyday.gwpapers.org/content/27-june-1775 On…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General George Washington met with the New York Provincial Congress. As part of his address, Washington pledged: When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour when the establishment of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Pennsylvania, Irish immigrant William Thompson was commissioned as Colonel of the rifle companies raised in western Pennsylvania which became known as the1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. Thompson would soon be promoted to Brigadier General but would be captured in early 1776 in Canada and would spend most of the…
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On this day 250 years ago at Samuel Getty’s Tavern in western York (but now Adams) County, Pennsylvania, men of the Marsh Creek settlement enlisted in Captain Michael Doudel’s company of riflemen. They would march from that location on July 1, 1775 to join the Continental Army at Boston and join the fight for American…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Generals Washington, Lee and Schuyler accompanied by Major Thomas Mifflin and other aides and a Congressional delegation that included John Adams and Silas Deane departed Philadelphia to begin their ride to the American Camp outside Boston. The Congressional delegation only went six miles and then returned to…
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On this day 250 years ago outside of Tondee’s Tavern in Savannah, the people of Savannah elected 25 delegates to the Provincial Congress of Georgia and a “Committee for enforcing the Association” that would later be called the “Council of Safety.” Source: Weeks, Carl Solana, Savannah In the Time of Peter Tondee, Columbia, South Carolina:…
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On this day 250 years ago in Fredericktown (now Frederick), Maryland, the two Maryland rifle companies authorized by the Continental Congress mustered at the Frederick County courthouse. The people of Frederick County will commemorate that event today, June 21, 2025. Sources: https://www.visitfrederick.org/event/250th-anniversary-commemoration%3A-maryland-rifle-companies/23228/ On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono addressed…
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On this day 250 years ago at Liberty Point in Cross Creek (present-day Fayetteville), North Carolina, 54 of the inhabitants of Cumberland County, holding ourselves bound by that most sacred of all obligations, the duty of good citizens towards an injured Country, and thoroughly convinced that under our distressed circumstances we shall be justified before…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress delivered to George Washington his Commission that read: We reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, conduct and fidelity Do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be General and Commander in chief of the army of the United Colonies and of all the forces…
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