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On September 20, 1774, Harvard Professor John Winthrop wrote to the theologian and intellectual Richard Price, one of America’s firmest supporters in London, that the Massachusetts Government Act “mutilated the Charter [of Massachusetts], so as to leave only a phantom remaining and, by depriving the people of every privilege has erected an absolute despotism.” Her…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Sally set sail from Essex County, Virginia with “one thousand and eighty-seven bushels of Indian corn, for the use of our suffering brethren in” Boston. The Essex County Committee led by John Upshaw had arranged for the collection of the corn and the shipment to Massachusetts. Unfortunately inclement…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail Adams in Massachusetts about the Continental Congress: The Proceedings of the Congress, are all a profound Secret, as yet, except two Votes which were passed Yesterday, and ordered to be printed. You will see them from every Quarter. These Votes…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Suffolk Resolves from Massachusetts. See my blog entry for September 9 for the text of the Suffolk Resolves. In adopting them the Congress added an unanimous resolution: That this assembly deeply feels the suffering of their countrymen in the Massachusetts – Bay,…
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On this day 250 years ago, Paul Revere rode into Philadelphia to deliver the Suffolk Resolves to the Continental Congress. Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/suffolk-resolves/ Also on this day 250 years ago the honorable delegates, now met in General Congress, were elegantly entertained by the gentlemen of this city. Having met at the City Tavern about 3 o’clock,…
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This night 250 years, Patriots thinly disguised as “Pickwacket Indians” boarded a sloop named the Cynthia moored in the harbor of York, Massachusetts (now York, Maine). They removed around 150 pounds of tea, but instead of dumping it in the harbor, they carried it ashore and it reportedly was never seen again. Sources: True Maine Patriots: The Little-Known…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Joseph Palmer wrote to his neighbor and friend John Adams attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia regarding the status of the rebellion in Massachusetts: The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral to be found in the…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Boston Lt. Robert MacKenzie of the British 43rd Regiment of Foot, wrote to his friend and former commander George Washington in Philadelphia. MacKenzie was from Virginia and had commanded a company in Washington’s regiment of Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, but had been commissioned in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Town Meeting of Sudbury, Massachusetts voted “to purchase Six hundred Weight [of gunpowder] & 300 French Flynts or 500 English Flynts, [and] to purchase a Chest of Arms to the Number of 30 with Bayonets . . . .” Source: https://sudburyweekly.com/
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On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere departed Boston to ride to Philadelphia carrying copies of the Suffolk Resolves to the Continental Congress. Revere’s ride this day may have been more important for American history than his ride the following year that would be immortalized by poetry. Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/suffolk-resolves/
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