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On New Year’s Eve 250 years ago, Josiah Quincy, Jr. on his mission to Britain to inform British leaders “of the true situation of political affairs” in Massachusetts, met in Bath, England with Catherine Macauley. Quincy wrote that he visited the celebrated Mrs. Macaulay: delivered my letters to her, and was favoured with a conversation…
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On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, Royal Governor Robert Eden wrote: The spirit of resistance against the Tea Act, or any mode of internal taxation, is as strong and universal here as ever. I firmly believe that they will undergo any hardship sooner than acknowledge a right in the British Parliament in that…
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On this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Mercy Otis Warren wrote to English writer and historian Catherine Macauley in London that the American colonies were waiting for the British response to their grievances “with the sword half Drawn from the scabard.” At about the same time Abigail Adams also wrote Macauley from Braintree…
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On this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, John Adams wrote to James Burgh in London to thank him for a copy of Burgh’s book Political Disquisitions. Burgh was a radical reformer and his book made an influential plea for freedom of speech and universal suffrage and Adams offered his hopes that the British…
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On this day 250 years ago in Dumfries, Virginia William Grayson wrote to Col. George Washington: The gentlemen of the company return their thanks to you for your kind offer, and will be much oblig’d to you, to write to Philada for forty muskets with bayonets, Cartouch boxes, or Pouches, and slings, to be made…
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On this day 250 years ago in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the order was issued for “Militia minutemen [to] hold themselves in readiness at a minutes warning, compleat in arms and ammunition; that is to say a good and sufficient firelock, bayonet, thirty rounds of powder and ball, pouch and knapsack.” Source: https://historicalnerdery01.blogspot.com/ On the same day…
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On Christmas Day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin met Lord Richard Howe at the home of his sister Caroline Howe. Lord Howe was a cousin of King George III, a prominent Whig in the House of Lords known for his sympathy to the Americans, and a senior Admiral in the Royal Navy. Franklin…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore wrote to Lord Dartmouth that: Authority…and policy are both insufficient to restrain the Americans; they do and will remove as their avidity and restlessness incite them. They acquire no attachment to place: But wandering about seems ingrafted in their nature; and it is…
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On this day 250 years ago, a justification for the seizure of the cannon and military stores from Fort William and Mary written by “A Lover of Order” was published in the New Hampshire Gazette. On or about the same day, John Sullivan wrote a rhetorical question to justify the seizure: I must here beg…
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On this day 250 years ago in Greenwich, New Jersey, about forty Patriots disguised as Indians, entered the cellar of Daniel Bowen’s house, where a cargo of tea from the Greyhound had been stored. They seized the whole cargo of tea, carried the tea chests into an adjoining field, piled them together and burned the…
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