On This Day In The Revolution

On July 9, 1774, the Patriots of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Essex, Fauquier and Norfolk Counties, Virginia all adopted resolutions supporting Boston, opposing the Intolerable Acts and calling for a “General Congress” of all the colonies. Sourcees: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/genealogy/webdocs/mercer.htm

On this day 250 years ago, Shawnee Indians attacked a party of settlers three miles away from the newly formed settlement of Harrod’s Town, Virginia, and killed two men. Harrod’s Town (now Harrodsburg) was the first white settlement in what is now the state of Kentucky. It had been founded less than a month earlier…

On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of Culpeper County gathered at the county courthouse to adopt the Culpeper Resolves in opposition to the Intolerable Acts and the closure of the Port of Boston.Culpeper County will erect an historical marker in the City of Culpeper to commemorate this event today and on July 9,…

On this day 250 years ago at the Exchange building in Charleston, South Carolina, there was a “General Meeting” of planters, merchants and tradesmen to determine South Carolina’s response to the Intolerable Acts. This meeting named a “General Committee” of 99 members that would end up effectively serving as South Carolina’s government as British authority…

Yesterday 250 years ago, some inhabitants of Fairfax County, Virginia attended a meeting at the county courthouse in Alexandria (no longer standing but located at Market Square in Old Town Alexandria) to select delegates to attend the upcoming Virginia Convention scheduled for August 1. Due to inclement weather, attendance at the meeting was sparse and…

On this day 250 years ago, in Orangetown, New York, the Freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown” met at the home of Yost Mabie to adopt the Orangetown Resolutions. The Resolutions were probably drafted by John Haring who would later serve in the First Continental Congress and other political posts in the State of New York…

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