On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Clementina Rind’s Virginia Gazette published in its lead article the following revolutionary sentiments: American freedom will soon be annihilated, unless we unitedly exert our utmost virtue and firmness; nothing less can recue our liberties, now eagerly grasped by the ruffian hand of power. . . . As…

On this day 250 years ago in London, the British Parliament enacted the Quebec Act or Canada Act. This Act extended the boundaries of the Province of Quebec south to the Ohio River, blocking the expansion of the American colonies westward and providing for trials in the expanded Quebec territory by judges without juries. Although…

Yesterday 250 years ago, a general Town meeting was held in the Town of Huntingdon on Long Island in New York led by Israel Wood, then President of the Town’s Board of Trustees. That meeting adopted seven resolutions that have come to be known as Huntington’s Declaration of Rights. The first resolution was “that every…

On this day 250 years ago, the citizens ofFrederick County, Maryland, met at Frederick County Court House in support of the besieged citizens of Boston. The meeting was chaired by John Hanson, who would in 1781 at the end of the Revolution be elected as President of the Confederation Congress (which was the highest ranking elected…

On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Committee of Overseers created the Committee of Ways and Means; its purpose was to receive and distribute all donations sent to Boston in relief from the Boston Port Act. Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2023/10/the-winter-of-1774-1775-in-boston/

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, several thousand people gathered in the State House Yard to adopt the following Resolutions: I. Resolved, that the Act of Parliament, for shutting up the port of Boston, is unconstitutional; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town; dangerous to- the liberties of the British colonies; and that, therefore,…

On this day 250 years ago the Patriots in Massachusetts were very busy. The General Assembly was meeting in Salem where Royal Governor Gage sent the Provincial Secretary with an order dissolving the Assembly. However, the Assembly members decided to “keep the door fast” and blocked him from entering the meeting to deliver the order.…

On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Dunmore County (now Shenandoah County), Virginia gathered in the town of Woodstock to adopt resolutions in response to the closure of the Port of Boston and the anticipated Intolerable Acts. The meeting chose to copy verbatim the Resolves passed on June 8 by neighboring Frederick County,…

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, George Washington wrote to his friend and former neighbor George William Fairfax, who had recently moved to Yorkshire, England, about the upcoming general meeting requested of all the late Representatives in this City on the first of August when it is hopd, & expected that some vigorous…

On this day 250 years ago, the “Freeholders and other inhabitants” of Loudoun County, Virginia, met at the court house in Leesburg to “consider the most effectual method to preserve the rights and liberties of N. America, and relieve our brethren of Boston, suffering under the most oppressive and tyrannical Act of the British Parliament.”…