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On October 10, 1774 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which was then claimed by Virginia and also claimed by the Shawnee who called the place “Chinoudaista”, Virginia militia commanded by Col. Andrew Lewis fought Shawnee and allied warriors commanded by Chief Hokoleskwa, also known as Chief Cornstalk, at the Battle of Point Pleasant. The Virginians…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, George Washington wrote a reply to the letter he had received from his friend Robert McKenzie in Boston. McKenzie was from Virginia and had served under Washington’s command in the French and Indian War but had made a career in the British Army and was then serving…
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On October 8, 1774, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia: Resolved, That this Congress approve of the opposition by the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts-bay, to the execution of the late acts of Parliament; and if the same shall be attempted to be carried into execution by force, in such case, all America ought to support them…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Salem, Massachusetts, 288 delegates assembled as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. They initially met at the court house where the members of the Massachusetts General Court had met two days earlier, but the court house was too small so they moved the meeting to the Congregational meeting-house. The Congress…
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On this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Town’s Patriots erected a Liberty Pole in the Town Square, in front of the County Courthouse. At the same time, 20 teams of oxen dragged to the Town Square the top half of the rock that the Mayflower passengers supposedly stepped on to reach shore. …
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On this day 250 years ago, members of the Massachusetts General Court (i.e., the Massachusetts Assembly) gathered in Salem, Massachusetts as originally scheduled in defiance of Governor Gage’s proclamation of September 28 dissolving the Assembly. The members waited all day to see if the Governor would reconvene the Assembly in accordance with the Massachusetts Charter. …
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On this day 250 years ago the Worcester, Massachusetts, Town Meeting voted for these instructions to Timothy Bigelow, its representative to the upcoming Massachusetts Provincial Congress: If all infractions of our rights, by acts of the British Parliament, be not redressed, and we restored to the full enjoyment of all our privileges, . . .…
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On this day 250 years ago, the county militias of Massachusetts were organizing for war. The Worcester County, Massachusetts militia elected Artemas Ward as their Colonel, even though he had been previously been removed from office by the Royal Governor of Massachusetts due to his ardent Patriotism. The Town Meeting of Framingham “Voted — that…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Samuel Swift wrote to Thomas Cushing and the other members of the Massachusetts delegation at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Among other things, he reported that: Jealousies seem to rise higher between the People and the Army. It has been Rumour’d they were about to Fortifie Dorchester…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress appointed a committee chaired by Richard Henry Lee, with John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Johnson of Maryland, and John Rutledge of South Carolina as members, to prepare a “loyal address to his Majesty.” The Congress directed the Committee to request “royal attention to the…
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