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On this day 250 years ago in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, the Kentish guards, commanded by Col. Richard Fry, appeared in their uniforms; about 12 o’clock they drew up on the parade before the State-House, when the Declaration of the General Congress, declaring these Colonies Free and Independent States, was read; likewise a resolve of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, delegates from the Penobscots agreed to “willing[ly] subject ourselves” to the American cause“and all that we shall Worship or obey will be Jesus Christ, and Gen.l Washington.” The Penobscot representatives joined a delegation of ten representatives from the Maliseet (or St. John’s) and the Mi’kmaq tribes…
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On this day 250 years ago 300 Cherokee warriors led by Ooskwha (usually called “Old Abram” or “Abraham of Chilowee”) attacked Fort Watauga (now in Tennessee). The day before Tsiyu Gansini (usually referred to in English as “Dragging Canoe” and Savanukah (or “The Raven of Chote”), with 400 men had attacked the Holston and Carter’s…
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On this day 250 years ago Major General Philip Schuyler wrote to General Washington from German Flatts in the Mohawk Valley of New York with intelligence (that turned out to be faulty for the most part) about the Iroquois: Mr [Peter] Ryckman on his Return from Niagara past thro’ most of the six Nations, and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, Massachusetts, the Micmac and Maliseet tribes signed a treaty of alliance and friendship with the United States. The treaty is now known as the Treaty of Watertown. Source: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/native-americans-revolutionary-war/ On this day 250 years ago, George Gibson of the 1st Virginia Regiment left Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts, the Declaration of Independence was read from the balcony of the State House by Col. Thomas Crafts to a crowd of the city’s citizens gathered in King Street. Abigail Adams was in the crowd and later wrote to her husband to describe the event: Last Thursday after…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, James Warren wrote to John Adams in Philadelphia: When you are Informed, that on the variety of Changes that have taken place in this Town, it is now become A Great Hospital for Inoculation, you will wonder to see A Letter from me dated here, but so…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail: I am informed that you were about taking the Small Pox, with all the Children. . . . It is not possible for me to describe, nor for you to conceive my Feelings upon this Occasion. Nothing, but the critical…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, James Cannon, an immigrant from Scotland, became a member of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, and was put in charge of drafting the instructions for Pennsylvania’s delegates to Congress. The Convention also made him a Justice of the Peace for the state of Pennsylvania, and appointed him to serve as a member of the Council of Safety from July 24, 1776 to December 4, 1777. Cannonis regarded as one of the two principal draftsmen of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, the most progressive state constitution of the Revolution. Sources: Hogeland, Declaration at 181; https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2137578
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On this day 250 years in New York, brothers Admiral Richard Howe and General William Howe, the British Naval and Army commanders in America sent a messenger under a flag of truce in a small boat from Staten Island to Manhattan. The message offering a “pardon” to all who would pledge allegiance to Great Britain…
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