On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg the first Virginia Convention convened. Although the Virginia Convention met at the Capitol where the Virginia House of Burgesses (or Assembly) would usually meet, in contrast to the Assembly, the Virginia Convention was not officially sanctioned by the Governor or the King, but was instead organized and…

On this day 250 years ago, Lt. Gov. William Bull of South Carolina (who would end up a Loyalist) wrote to Lord Dartmouth that South Carolina considered the dispute between the Colonies and the British Government to be a choice between “liberty or slavery”. Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27567931

On this day the people of the Town of Biddeford, Massachusetts (now Maine) met at the First Parish Meetinghouse to adopt resolutions opposing the closure of the Port of Boston and the Intolerable Acts. The inhabitants of the town pledged their persons and fortunes to the Patriot cause and to hold as an enemy of…

On this day 250 years ago Thomas Jefferson is sick at home in Monticello and unable to travel to Williamsburg to attend the Virginia Convention. However, Jefferson had completed his pamphlet on A Summary View of the Rights of British America and dispatched a servant to ride to Williamsburg to deliver a copy to Peyton…

On this day 250 years ago, the Liberty Boys of Georgia led by John Houstoun, George Walton, Archibald Bulloch and Noble W. Jones held a meeting at Tondee’s Tavern in Savannah. They appointed a committee to draft resolutions opposing the Intolerable Acts, and they scheduled another meeting for August 10 to consider the resolutions. Sources:…

On this day 250 years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia the Albemarle County Resolutions were adopted. They were drafted by Thomas Jefferson and previewed ideas that he would state more forcefully and succinctly two years later in his famous Declaration: Resolved, that the inhabitants of the several states of British America are subject to the laws…

On this day 250 years ago the Committee of Correspondence of Berkshire County, Massachusetts wrote to the Boston Committee of Correspondence of their planned response to the Massachusetts Government Act that the British Parliament had passed with the other Intolerable Acts earlier in the year. The Massachusetts Government Act provided that all judges would be…

On this day 250 years ago Royal Governor Dunmore of Virginia wrote that he would “proceed immediately to [Pittsburgh] or the mouth of Wheeling with 250 or 350 good men as many more as can be spared in order to compel the Indians to a lasting peace.” Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/02/virginia-looking-westward-from-lord-dunmores-war-through-the-revolution/#_edn8

On this day 250 years ago, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, “a general meeting of the Committees of the several Counties of the Province of New Jersey” was held to adopt resolutions in opposition to the Intolerable Acts, to organize aid for the people of Boston and to elect “James Kinsey, William Livingston, John DeHart,…