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On this day 250 years ago in Assonet (now Freetown), Massachusetts, hundreds of Massachusetts militia from Attleborough, Dartmouth and Middleborough commanded by Col. John Daggett raided the home of Loyalist Col. Thomas Gilbert where his company of Loyalist militia was encamped. The Patriots captured 29 Loyalists (but not Gilbert, who was away seeking British troops…
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On this day 250 years ago, Col. John Daggett of the Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia led a raid from Attleborough (now Attleboro), Massachusetts to the nearby town of Assonet to seize gunpowder Loyalists had stored there. Source: https://www.drjosephwarren.com/2013/07/attleboros-solemn-league-and-covenant/ On that same Sunday in Boston, during services at the Brattle Street Meeting, Joseph Warren warned…
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On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress called for the establishment of a New England Army, and appointed delegates to travel to New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut to ask each colony to contribute troops to the army. Sources: Journals of each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts at 135-36 accessed at https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/134/mode/2up?view=theater;https://250andcounting.com/2025/04/08/april-8-1775-the-new-england-army/; And…
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On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress resolved that This Congress, deeply sensible of the high-handed insult offered the town of Billerica, the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, and this continent in general, in the vile and ignoble assault in the person of Thomas Ditson, by a party of the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress responded to a report from the Bristol County Committee that Col. Thomas Gilbert had begun training a Loyalist militia: The part acted by Col. Gilbert respecting the common cause of America, since the commencement of its public troubles, . . . leaves no…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Bern, North Carolina, the Provincial Assembly, which Governor Josiah Martin had declared “the only lawful Representatives of the people of” North Carolina, merges with the Provincial Congress, which Martin had deemed “highly offensive to the King and dishonorable.” The merger made sense to the members of the…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Bern, North Carolina, the Province of North Carolina General Assembly is convened by Royal Governor Josiah Martin. Although the General Assembly was the official body recognized by the British Government, it proved to be no more cooperative with Governor Martin than the outlawed Provincial Congress. That was…
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On this day 250 years ago in New Bern, the Second North Carolina Provincial Congress convenes, notwithstanding Royal Governor Josiah Martin’s Declaration that the Congress was “in every light illegal, and inconsistent with good order and government.” John Harvey is elected Moderator of the North Carolina Congress. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_North_Carolina_Provincial_Congress; https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_revolution_government_1775.html On this day 250 years…
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On this day 250 years ago two ships from England arrive at Marblehead, Massachusetts carrying newpapers reporting that orders had been issued to General Gage to take offensive action against the Patriots. They also reported that the King had insisted that all laws be enforced in America, that a bill had been introduced to prevent…
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On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in recognition that a company “of indians, natives of the town of Stockbridge, have enlisted as minute men,” gives this address To Johoiakin Mothksin, and the rest of our brethren, the indians, natives of Stockbridge: Good Brothers — It affords us great pleasure…
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