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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Josiah Quincy, Jr. published his pamphlet entitled Observations on the Act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. This influential pamphlet was widely circulated in the Colonies and persuasively set forth the Patriots’ arguments. Quincy ended his pamphlet with a…
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On this day 250 years ago, a Town Meeting in Boston moderated by SamuelAdams resolved that “it is the opinion of this town, that if the other, Colonies come, into a joint resolution to stop all importation from Great Britain, and exportations to Great Britain, and every part of the West Indies, till the Act for blocking up this harbor…
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The Boston Committee of Correspondence met at Faneuil Hall with committees from eight of the neighboring towns. The Boston Committee also appointed a subcommittee to draft a circular letter to the other colonies recommending that trade with Great Britain be suspended in protest of the Boston Port Act. Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10986/Colonial-Boston-from-the-newspapers-6-28-14
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote to the surrounding towns requesting that they send representatives to a meeting the next day at Faneuil Hall to prepare a response to the Boston Port Act. Source: Also on this day in London a…
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On this day 250 year ago, a ship docked in Boston Harbor carrying news that Parliament had enacted the Boston Port Act, closing the Port of Boston starting on June 1, 1774, as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. Source: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/boston-port-act-1774
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On the 8th of May 250 years ago, William Crawford wrote a letter to George Washington reporting (as his brother Valentine had done the previous day) on the attack on Indians on the Ohio River led by Michael Cresap and the massacre at Yellow Creek committed by Daniel Greathouse and his gang. Then William Crawford…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution, Captain John Neville led 24 militiamen plus “four Negro men with proper working implements” from Peters Creek (now in Pennsylvania but then claimed by Virginia) to reinforce the garrison at Fort Pitt in anticipation of war with the Shawnee, Mingo and other tribes. Source: Williams, Glenn…
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On this day 250 years ago from Jacobs Creek (now in Pennsylvania but then considered to be in Virginia) Valentine Crawford wrote George Washington to report on the hostilities on the frontier along the Ohio, including the Massacre of Indians at Yellow Creek committed by Daniel Greathouse and his gang and the attacks on Indians…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia House of Burgesses (often referred to as “the Assembly” then as it is now) convened one day late, having failed to achieve the required quorum of 50 members the previous day when the session was scheduled to begin. As one of the actions on the…
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On this day 250 years ago a ship carrying the first news of the enactment of Boston Port Act arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, although it would be a few more days before the news reached Boston. Sources: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p. 78.
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