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On this day 250 years ago at the Effingham Tavern in Cumberland County, Virginia, the People of Cumberland County approved a resolution directing the County’s representatives in the Virginia Convention to support Independence. The resolution had been drafted by Carter Henry Harrison and memorably called for Virginia to “abjure any Allegeance to his Britannick Majesty,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John that she heard yesterday that a Number of Gentlemen who were together at Cambridge thought it highly proper that a Committee of Ladies should be chosen to examine the Torys Ladies, and proceeded to the choise of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, there was much talk of Independence. That day the Pennsylvania Evening Post published an article listing seven Reasons for a Declaration of the Independence of the American Colonies Source: https://www.rarenewspapers.com/newspaper/704787-common-sense-reasons-for-a-declaration-of-independence Also on that day in Philadelphia, John Adams wrote to James Warren that Last Evening, a Letter…
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On this day 250 years ago in Lexington, Massachusetts, Rev. Jonas Clarke preached a sermon on The fate of blood-thirsty oppressors, and God’s tender care of his distressed people. . . . To commemorate the murder, bloodshed, and commencement of hostilities, between Great Britain and America, in that town, by a brigade of troops of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Canada Susanna Grier was accidentally killed by the discharge of a Patriot rifle during siege of Quebec. Grier was the wife of Sergeant Joseph Grier of Captain William Hendricks’ Company of Pennsylvania riflemen. Sgt. Grier had been captured on December 31, 1775, and Capt. Hendricks killed, during the…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina 24 (or maybe 30 — sources differ) armed North Carolina seamen from the Ocracoke area in five whaleboats commanded by Benjamin Bonner of Pamplico River, captured the Lilly and recaptured the Polly which had been captured by the British only three days earlier. They also captured…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City the “Mechanics in Union and their Associates” published a list of 21 candidates that they recommended “as fit men to represent the city and county of New-York, in the next Provincial Congress.” Most of the candidates on the list would win election to the Provincial…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, General George Washington wrote Brigadier General John Thomas commanding the Continental Army in Canada about his Concern at the great deficiency of the Regiments destin’d for Canada, but as I am sensible of the necessity of having a respectable body of Troops in that Country,…
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On this day 250 years ago off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the American merchant ship Polly captained by Silas Henry carrying co-owner James Buchanan and a cargo of hominy corn and hogshead components from Edenton, North Carolina to Madeira, was captured by the Loyalist armed sloop Lilly commanded by Captain John Goodrich, Jr. Later that…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York, General George Washington and his staff crossed King’s Bridge onto Manhattan Island and into New York City where Washington established his headquarters for the next four months awaiting the British invasion. Most of the Continental Army units redeployed from Boston were already in New York or…
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