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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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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Delegate Thomas Willing of Pennsylvania read a letter to the Continental Congress written by a British government official supposedly on behalf of Prime Minister Lord North. The letter asserted that the British would make no further concessions to American demands and threatened “to use the whole force…
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On this day 250 years ago, Royal Governor Josiah Martin of North Carolina fled the colony’s capital of New Bern eventually making his way to Fort Johnston at the mouth of the Cape Fear River and the safety of British ships. With his flight from New Bern, Martin left the governmnent of North Carolina in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Battle of Chelsea Creek in Boston Harbor continued over night until the early morning hours when the British abandoned the grounded schooner HMS Diana and its four 6-pounders and twelve swivel guns. Col. Putnam’s troops then boarded the Diana, removed the cannon and everything else of value including rigging, sails, clothing,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, Gen. Artemas Ward ordered Colonel John Stark and the 300 men of his 1st New Hampshire Regiment to remove or destroy livestock, hay and provisions on Noddle and Hog Islands in Boston Harbor in order to deprive British troops in Boston from using them. Stark’s men succeed…
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