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On this day 250 years ago, the first issue of the Virginia Gazette or, Norfolk Intelligencer was published in Norfolk, Virginia. The front page article was a letter on the “Liberties of America and the danger which threatens them” but was a long-winded legal argument that both condemned “the conduct of the Bostonians in destroying…
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On this date 250 years ago in Winchester, Virginia, a large crowd gathered at the Frederick County Courthouse but had to move to the larger Church of England in town to adopt resolutions in support of the Patriots in Boston. The Frederick Resolves read: Voted 1st. That we will always cheerfully pay due submission to…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Massachusetts Assembly convened in Salem, Massachusetts instead of in the capital of Boston. Governor Gage had ordered the Massachusetts legislature to convene in Salem to remove the legislature from the pressure of Boston mobs. However, the Assembly’s first order of business was to complain about the removal from…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Prince William Resolves were adopted in “a Meeting of the Freeholders, Merchants, and other Inhabit-ants of the County of Prince William, and town of Dumfries, . . . at the Court House” in Dumfries, Virginia. George Mason drafted the Resolves which declared: Resolved, And it is the unanimous opinion of…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren presented a draft of the Solemn League and Covenant to the Boston Committee of Correspondence. Warren and Sam Adams probably drafted the document. The Solemn League and Covenant was a proposed pledge to be circulated to committees of correspondence of towns in Massachusetts and…
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On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Hanover Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania assembled and adopted the following Resolves (I have emphasized the 4th Resolve): 1st. That the recent action of the Parliament of Great Britain is iniquitous and oppressive. 2d. That it is the bounded duty of the people to oppose every measure…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Connecticut House of Representatives elected Roger Sherman, Silas Deane and Eliphalet Dyer as Delegates to the First Continental Congress, making Connecticut the first colony to select its delegates. Sherman, Deane and Dyer would subsequently serve in the Second Continental Congress. Deane would go on to spend much of…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament passed the fourth of the Intolerable Acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. The Quartering Act, unlike the previous three acts, was not limited to Massachusetts but instead applied to all thirteen American colonies. The Quartering Act allowed the British Army to quarter soldiers in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Royal Navy and Governor Gage closed the Port of Boston to essentially all shipping. In Philadelphia most citizens attended church services, closed shops, and lowered their flags to half-mast in sympathy with Boston. Norton, Mary Beth, Source: 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at 95. The Patriots in…
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On this day 250 years ago in Baltimore, a town meeting was held at the courthouse to discuss the closure of the Port of Boston. The meeting adopted Resolutions that supported an embargo of Great Britain and also the West Indies. They also called for the formation of a Maryland congress and an intercolonial congress.…
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