On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago “a general Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Fairfax” at the courthouse in Alexandria adopted the Fairfax Resolves. These resolutions were drafted primarily by George Mason with the assistance of George Washington. The meeting was presided over by George Washington and recorded by Robert Harrison…

On this day 250 years ago, the Patriots of Hanover County, Virginia adopted the Hanover Resolves. Source: https://historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMLTT_hanover-courthouse_Hanover-VA.html https://roadtorevolution.com/hanover-county-courthouse/

On this day 250 years ago, George Mason and George Washington make final edits to the draft Fairfax Resolves at Mount Vernon. They spend the night at Mount Vernon and ride into Alexandria the next day to present the proposed Resolves to the Fairfax County meeting. Source: https://www.loc.gov/collections/george-washington-papers/articles-and-essays/fairfax-resolves/

On this day 250 years ago a Newton, New Jersey, the freeholders of Sussex County adopted resolutions urging the repeal of the Boston Port Bill and the other Intolerable Acts. Source: http://www.getnj.com/historicroadsides/sussex.shtml Also on this day, the Patriots of Surry County, Virginia adopted their Resolves against the Intolerable Acts. Source: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia “a Provincial Meeting of [75] Deputies Chosen by [11 Pennsylvania] Counties” met to adopt resolutions in support of Boston and Massachusetts. The Pennsylvania Resolutions proclaimed the Intolerable Acts “unconstitutional,” pledged aid to Boston, and declared that there is an absolute necessity, that a congress of deputies from…

On this day 250 years ago, a meeting of the inhabitants of Fairfax County, Virginia at the county courthouse in Alexandria elected George Washington and Charles Broadwater as Burgesses to the next session of the Virginia Assembly. The meeting lasted two hours and was “conducted with great order and regularity” according to an observer. The…

On this day 250 years ago, approximately 75 citizens of Attleboro, Massachusetts signed the Solemn League and Covenant circulated by the Boston Committee of Correspondence. About sixty of their names are still legible but all should be remembered for their commitment to the Patriot cause.

On this day 250 years ago, “a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of New Kent, at the Courthouse of the said County” in Virginia adopted the New Kent Resolves. These resolutions were similar to the resolutions adopted by other counties in Virginia and the other American colonies in protest against the…

On this day 250 years ago, from Mount Vernon George Washington wrote to his brother John Augustine Washington about meetings in Alexandria to draft and approve the Fairfax Resolves: We have not, as yet had a meeting of the Inhabitants of this County; owing in the first place, to my not getting up from Wmsburg…

On this day 250 years ago Governor Dunmore of Virginia left Williamsburg to ride to Winchester where he planned to raise two regiments of militia to invade the Shawnee and Mingo nations along the Ohio River. Source: https://raogk.org/military-records/lord-dunmores-war/