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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Royal Governor Lord Dunmore issues a proclamation outlawing Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company for their unauthorized purchase of land from the Cherokees: And whereas advice has been received, that one Richard Henderson, and other disorderly persons, his associates, under pretence of a purchase made from…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Parish Church of Henrico County (now St. John’s Episcopal Church) in Richmond the Second Virginia Convention convenes. 95 delegates are present on the first day and over the next week a total of 120 delegates would participate in the convention including Peyton Randolph, Patrick Henry, George Washington,…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote too Arthur Lee: I leave Directions with Mrs. Stevenson to deliver you all the Massachusetts Papers, when you please to call for them. I am sorry that the Hurry of Preparing for my Voyage and the many Hindrances I have met with, prevented my meeting…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, John Andrews wrote to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia reports of British soldiers harassing citizens of Boston: An officer, with men from the 4th Regiment in Barracks at West Boston, erected a couple of tents just at the back of Howard’s meeting and conducted a parcell of fifes…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals was signed by Chiefs Oconostota and Attakullakulla of the Cherokees selling Cherokee rights to most of Kentucky and a portion of Tennessee — upwards of twenty millions of acres of land — to the Transylvania Company led by Richard Henderson. Source: https://www.npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/daniel-boone/history/chap8.htm; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=47196; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=268080…
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On this day 250 years ago at Sycamore Shoals in present-day Tennessee, Tsiyu Gansini (known to the colonists and history as “Dragging Canoe”) withdrew from the negotiations with Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company at Sycamore Shoals for the sale of the Cherokee hunting grounds in Kentucky and pleaded with his people to resist any…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City, the Committee of Sixty met to elect delegates to a Provincial Convention and to issue a circular letter to the counties, drafted by John Jay, which called on the other counties to send delegates to the Provincial Convention and set April 20 for the Convention…
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On this day 250 years ago at Sycamore Shoals (then claimed by North Carolina but now in Tennessee) the Grand Council of the Cherokee Nation convened to negotiate with the Transylvania Company led by Richard Henderson for the sale of land in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee. The Cherokee were led by Atta-Kulla-Kulla (known…
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On this day 250 years ago in what is now Westminster, Vermont, a group of about 100 unarmed Patriots are attacked by a Loyalist posse as they occupy the Westminster Courthouse. Ten men are shot when the posse fires into the crowd and two of them — 21-year old William French of Brattleboro and Daniel…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Samuel Adams wrote: I never had the least doubt in my Mind but that the Colony of South Carolina, which has distinguishd itself through all our Struggles for the Establishment of American Liberty, would approve and support the proceedings of the Continental Congress. . . . There…
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