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On this day 250 years ago the Massachusetts Provincial Congress passed resolutions stating: That Mr. [Samuel] Adams, Major [Joseph] Hawley, Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry, Hon. Mr. [Thomas] Cushing, Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine, Col. [Joseph] Palmer, and Mr. [Benjamin] Freeman, be a committee to bring in a resolve holding up to the people of this province, the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Rhode Island the Newport Mercury reported that “Last Tuesday the militia of this town were mustered and exercised, when they performed extremely well, considering there has not been a muster here before upwards of ten years.” Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/the-organization-of-the-rhode-island-militia-1774-1783/#_edn16 n.17 Also on that day in Middleborough, Massachusetts, the Town Meeting…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament requested that the King: direct your Majesty’s governor of Massachusetts Bay to take the most effectual methods for procuring the fullest information that can be obtained touching all treasons or misprision of treason committed within this government since the 30th day of December last… together with…
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On this day 250 years ago in London Lord Camden wrote to the Earl of Chatham: The ministry are proceeding with the most mischievous expedition, to plunge the nation irrecoverably into a civil war, which, indeed, I consider as commenced by the joint address; and the bill to cut off the four New England colonies…
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On this day 250 years ago in North Carolina, John Harvey, the moderator of the First North Carolina Provincial Congress and the leader of the Patriots in North Carolina, issued a call for the people of North Carolina to elect representatives to another Provincial Congress to be held on April 3. Source: https://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/nc_brunswick_county_regiment.html
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, John Adams wrote “To a Friend in London”: It is not easy to convey to you, Sir, an adequate idea of the state of this province. It is now at last true, that we have no government, legislative, executive, or judicial. The people determined never to…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, the Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion: we find, that a part of your Majesty’s subjects in the province of the Massachusetts Bay have proceeded so far to resist the authority of the supreme legislature, that a rebellion at this time actually exists within the said province https://alphahistory.com/americanrevolution/rebellion-declared-massachusetts-1775/…
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On this day 250 years ago in Dumfries, Virginia, William Grayson wrote to George Washington that the gun, “colours drums &” ordered by Washington for the Prince William County Independent Company had arrived from Philadelphia. Source: “To George Washington from William Grayson, 8 February 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0190. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial…
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On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress: strongly recommended to the inhabitants of the towns and districts of this province, that, should any person or persons presume to supply the troops now stationed at Boston or elsewhere in said province, with . . . any . . . materials whatever,…
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On this day 250 years ago, at Gunston Hall, Virginia George Mason wrote to his friend George Washington in nearby Mount Vernon: Inclosed You have a Copy of the plan I drew for embodying the People of this County [as a militia]; in which You’ll be pleased to make such Alterations as You think necessary.…
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