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On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Committee, joined by the committees of ten other nearby towns, writes to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress to request “some immediate and effectual Measures . . . for the publick security” due to “the Insults and Depredations of a lawless and hostile Band of armed Soldiers” occupying Boston…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, King George III signs the New England Restraining Act. The Act prohibited the New England colonies — Massachusetts, New Hamphshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut from trading with any country but Great Britain. Sources: https://www.historycentral.com/documents/NERestraining.html; https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-30/king-george-endorses-new-england-restraining-act On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, the First Brigade of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Montreal, Canada, John Brown prepares a report to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren of the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondences. Brown was a lawyer from Pittsfield, Massachusetts who had traveled to Montreal to assess the status of sentiments in Canada. Brown writes that Governor-General Guy Carleton of Canada is…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation prohibiting the Second Virginia Convention from electing delegates to the Second Continental Congress. He was too late, the Virginia Convention had already elected its full delegation to Congress and had adjourned the day earlier, not that they would have heeded…
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On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Second Virginia Convention adjourns, but as one of its final acts it elects Thomas Jefferson as an alternate delegate to replace Peyton Randolph if he was unable to attend the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Randolph had needed to resign from the First Continental Congress due…
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On this day 250 years ago an anonymous writer in Northampton County, Virginia wrote a letter complaining of harassment by “Captain Collins” (actually Lieutenant Henry Collins) of the 6-gun schooner HMS Magdalen that was published in the next edition of the Virginia Gazette. Four days earlier Collins had searched a sloop at Hungars Harbour in…
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In the early morning hours before daylight on this day 250 years ago on Silver Creek in Kentucky, a party of Native Americans attack the encampment of Daniel Boone’s trailblazing party while they were constructing the Boone Trace. Captain William Twitty (sometimes spelled Twetty) was mortally wounded, and his slave, Sam, was killed instantly. Felix…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond, the Committee formed by Patrick Henry’s resolutions on the previous day presents its recommendations to the Convention for the formation of the Virginia militia. Patrick Henry is chairman of the Committee and the other members are Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond, Patrick Henry introduced three resolutions modeled after the Fairfax Committee’s resolution to form an independent company of militia. The first resolution stated: that a well regulated Militia composed of Gentlemen and Yeomen is the natural Strength and only Security of a free…
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On this day 250 years ago in Harford County, Maryland, 34 men sign the Bush Declaration: We, the Committee of Harford County, having most Seriously and maturely Considered the Resolves and Association of the Continental Congress, and the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we Esteem ourselves in a more particular manner…
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