On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago in Alexandria Bryan Fairfax wrote to his close friend George Washington that Several Gentlemen of this County have been kind enough to propose me as a Candidate at the next Election. As it would give me a particular pleasure to serve with You, I have thought it very unlucky…

On this day 250 years ago, William Goddard published an announcement in the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser of his plans for creation of a Constitutional Post in America independent of the Royal Post Office. The Constitutional Post was the predecessor to today’s United States Post Office. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goddard_(publisher)#vannuysnews Also on this day 250 years ago,…

On this day 250 years ago the citizens of James City County, Virginia adopted resolutions opposing the British actions against Boston. Source: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content Also on this day 250 years ago, at Montpelier in Orange County, Virginia, James Madison wrote to his friend William Bradford in Philadelphia that As to the Sentiments of the people of…

On this day 250 years ago, Vice Admiral Samuel Graves arrived in Boston to assume command of the fleet blockading the Port of Boston and patrolling American waters. Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10986/Colonial-Boston-from-the-newspapers-6-28-14

On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, Royal Governor and General Thomas Gage issued a proclamation declaring the Solemn League and Covenant “unlawful”, “scandalous, traiterous, and seditious” and that those signing the Covenant were “the declared and open Enemies of the King, Parliament, and Kingdom of Great Britain.” Accordingly, Gage ordered the arrest of anyone…

On this day 250 years ago, a town meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston concluded with an endorsement of the Solemn League and Covenant and its boycott of trade with Britain. The meeting had started the day before (on June 27) and initially merchants opposed to the boycott introduced resolutions that would reject the Solemn…

250 years ago yesterday the Town of Pepperell in Massachusetts adopted the following resolutions: Under a deep sense of the distressing & very extraordinary circumstances we of this land are unhappily brought into by (as we think) a bad ministry, in our Parent Country, by the innovations already made (by act & power) on our…

On this day 250 years ago, the Magna Charta arrived in Charleston Harbor carrying “two chests and a half of tea.” The Charleston Committee demanded that the Captain of the Magna Charta leave the tea onboard and the captain agreed. When it was later discovered that the tea had been unloaded, an angry mob would…

On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland the first session of the Annapolis Convention concluded. After Royal Governor Eden dissolved the Maryland Colonial Assembly, 92 members of the Assembly representing all 16 counties in Maryland organized themselves as a Convention that began meeting in Annapolis on June 22. During the four days of…

On this day 250 years ago, citizens of Spotsylvania County, Virginia met at the Town House (i.e., city hall) of Fredericksburg to adopt resolutions in support of Boston and to elect delegates to the Virginia Convention set to meet in August. The Spotsylvania Resolves declared that “we owe no Obedience to any Act of the…