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On this day 250 years ago in Dumfries, Virginia, the Prince William County Independent Company commanded by Captain William Grayson adopted the following resolutions: Resolved that the Motto of this Company shall be, Aut liber, aut nullus. Resolved unanimously that Thomas Blackburn, Richard Graham and Philip Richard Francis Lee Gentlemen, do wait upon Collonel George…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Thomas Nelson, President of the Virginia Governor’s Council, postponed the meeting of the Council scheduled for this date to a later date. The Governor’s Council was eventually prorogued until February 1775. In contrast to the Virginia House of Burgesses, the members of the Governor’s Council were…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia, several hundred (estimates range from 200 to 500) merchants “voluntarily and generally signed” the Continental Association. The Continental Association had been issued by the Continental Congress in the previous month. It provided that the signers would not import from, export to or consume products of Britain.…
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Josiah Quincy Jr. lands at Falmouth, England on his secret mission from Samuel Adams and the Boston Committee of Correspondence to meet with supporters of the Patriots in London and to gauge support for the Colonies. https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1449#ch05
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On this day 250 years ago in Yorktown, Virginia, THE Inhabitants of York having been informed that the Virginia, commanded by Howard Esten, had on Board two Half Chests of Tea, shipped by John Norton, Esq; and Sons, Merchants in London, by Order of Mess. Prentis and Company, Merchants in Williamsburg, assembled at 10 o’Clock…
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On this day 250 years ago in Camden, South Carolina, a Grand Jury of 22 men elected by the people of Camden District responded to a speech on the “Rights of Man under the Law” delivered to them on the previous day, November 5, 1774, by Justice William Henry Drayton on the Rights of Man…
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On this day 250 years ago, “a Meeting of the Officers under the Command of [Virginia Governor Dunmore], convened at Fort Gower [present day Hockingport, Ohio] for the Purpose of considering the Grievances of BRITISH AMERICA.” adopted what are now known as the “Fort Gower Resolves.” Although these officers had just completed the military campaign…
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On this day 250 years ago in Staunton, Virginia, a member of the militia returning from the battle wrote this account of the Battle of Point Pleasant: On the tenth of October, our Army being encamped in the Fork of the Great Kenhawa, two men went out early to hunt, but were fired upon by…
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At noon on this day 250 years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, Patriots rowed Captain Ball and the three merchants who had agreed to purchase his tea out to the Britannia anchored in the harbor where “an oblation was made to NEPTUNE, of the said seven chests of tea.” A crowd of Charlestonians watched from…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston’s General Committee interviewed Captain Ball of the Britannia about the tea on board his ship that had docked the previous day. Ball admitted that there were seven chests of “the mischievous Drug” aboard his ship, but gave multiple excuses for transporting the tea to…
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