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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress RESOLVED, That no Obedience being due to the Act of Parliament for altering the Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, nor to a Governor or Lieutenant Governor, who will not observe the Directions of, but endeavour to subvert, that Charter, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia’s last Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, with his family fled the Governor’s Palace to the safety of the HMS Fowey in the York River. With his departure from Williamsburg, government of Virginia was entirely under the command of the Virginia Convention except where and when British soldiers were ashore.…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the New York Provincial Congress wrote to the Continental Congress that in the case a Continental army should be established by authority of your respectable body . . . we are unanimous in the choice of Colo. Philip Schuyler and Capt. Richard Montgomerie, to the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina’s Provincial Congress authorized the formation of two regiments of infantry (the 1st and 2nd South Carolina Regiments) and a third regiment of mounted riflemen (Ranger Regiment). On this day 250 years ago in Machias, Maine the people generally assembled at the place appointed, and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, while the Royal Governor and Loyalists had a dinner at the courthouse to celebrate the King’s birthday, the Liberty Boys erected a Liberty Pole in view of the courthouse and then proceeded to Peter Tondee’s Tavern to toast the King — and then toasted to “American…
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On this day in Charles Town (now Charleston), South Carolina’s Provincial Congress authorized the issuance of £1,000,000 in paper currency for military defense of the province. The Provincial Congress also appointed thirteen new members to the Council of Safety, with power to govern the province in lieu of royal authority. Source: On this day 250…
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On this day 250 years ago in Trenton, the New Jersey Provincial Congress taking into consideration the cruel and arbitrary measures adopted and pursued by the British Parliament and present Ministry, for the purpose of subjucating the American Colonies to the most abject servitude; and, being apprehensive that all pacific measures for the redress of…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the New York Provincial Congress declared in a letter to the inhabitants of Canada that “Mankind ought to be governed by the dictates of justice, and not by the hand of oppression.” Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.10802300/ On that day in Rhode Island, three regiments assembled to march…
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On this day 250 years ago, the South Carolina Provincial Congress met in Charles Town (now Charleston) and elected Henry Laurens President of the Congress. The South Carolina Congress requires all inhabitants of South Carolina to adhere to the Continental Association. Cashin at p. 130; https://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/sc_revolution_provincial_government.html Also on this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charlottetown (now Charlotte), North Carolina the Mecklenburg County Committee met, and passed the following RESOLVES: Whereas by an Address presented to his Majesty by both Houses of Parliament in February last, the American Colonies are declared to be in a State of actual Rebelion, we conceive that all…
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