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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote to his good friend Josiah Quincy II in London: America hath in store her Bruti and Caesii… patriots and heroes, who will form a band of brothers, men who will have… courage and swords, courage that shall inflame their ardent bosoms till their…
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On this day 250 years ago, itinerant Methodist preacher William Duke organized the first Methodist society in Alexandria, Virginia, which would become today’s Trinity United Methodist Church. Teenage British immigrant John Littlejohn was a founding member of the congregation and would himself become a Methodist minister. The Methodists at this time were strongly antislavery, and…
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On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington wrote to Rev. Townshend Dade, Jr., minister of the Fairfax Parish, and a fellow member with Washington of the Fairfax Committee enforcing Virginia’s boycott of British imports: As it is necessary that the Free holders of this County should be convened, in order…
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On this day 250 years ago in New York City “THE COMMITTEE OF MECHANICKS OF NEW-YORK” met with the five “DELEGATES WHO REPRESENTED THIS CITY AT THE GENERAL CONGRESS” and presented the following address: We, being actuated by a real regard for the interest and prosperity of our injured and oppressed country, and influenced by…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, 28 men led by Abraham Markoe form the Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia. Markoe was a Danish citizen born in St. Croix in the West Indies. They formed their troop to resist “the British and to carry out the non-importation resolutions of [the First Continental]…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, the Committee of Ways and Means wrote to the Litchfield, Connecticut Committee of Correspondence regarding the need for additional relief for the people of Boston suffering under the British Navy’s blockade: We flatter ourselves our friends will continue to support our industrious tradesmen, many of whom are…
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On this day 250 years ago at Long Bluff (present day Society Hill in Darlington County), South Carolina, Judge William Henry Drayton delivered the following charge to the Grand Jury of the Cheraws District: By as much as you prefer freedom to slavery, by so much ought you to prefer a generous death to servitude…..Hence,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet published this eloquent paean by an anonymous (and still unknown) author to American democracy: The history of kings is nothing but the history of the folly and depravity of human nature.. . . We read now and then, it is true, of a good…
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On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington met with Thomas Blackburn, Philip Richard Francis Lee and Philip Richard. These three men met with Washington to ask him to take command of the Independent Company of Cadets of Prince William County. Washington agreed and thus became commander of both the Fairfax…
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On this day 250 years ago in Baltimore, Maryland, a Committee of Observation for Baltimore County was formed to enforce the boycott of trade with the British issued by the Continental Congress. There were 67 men named to the Committee of Observation. https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A100489 I only recognized two names on the list of the 67 men…
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