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On this day 250 years ago, William Molineux died after an unexpected illness. Although little known today, at the time of his death Molineux was known to both the Loyalists and the Patriots as the leader of the Boston crowds who agitated against the British. Molineux participated in the Boston Tea Party and in almost…
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On this day 250 years ago in Taunton, Massachusetts the “Liberty and Union” flag was raised for the first time. https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/before-old-glory-there-was-the-taunton-flag Also on this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted its Address to the People of Great Britain. The Address laid out the arguments for repeal of the Intolerable Acts and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Continental Association. The Continental Association was a “Non-importation, Non-consumption, and Non-exportation Agreement” to end trade with Great Britain over the coming year in order to pressure Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts. It was signed by delegates of the Continental Congress representing…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Shawnee under Chief Cornstalk and the Virginians led by Governor Dunmore entered into the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, near present-day Chillicothe, Ohio. Under this treaty the Shawnee led by Cornstalk agreed to recognize the land cessations granting Virginia the territory south and east of the Ohio River (present…
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On this day 250 years ago a Boston sailor named Samuel Dyer attacked two British officers with a sword and pistols on a crowded street in Boston in broad daylight and then fled to Cambridge to demand protection from the Massachusetts Provincial Congress meeting there. Dyer had been arrested in Boston by the British earlier…
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On this day 250 years ago the Massachusetts Provincial Congress convened in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Congress received a letter from Governor Gage declaring “that by your assembling, you are . . . now acting in violation of your own constitution” and directing the Congress to “desist from your illegal and unconstitutional proceedings.” The Provincial Congress…
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On this day 250 years ago, Rev. Samuel Cooper of the Brattle Street Congregational Church in Boston wrote to his parishioner John Adams in Philadelphia: Our provincial congress is assembled; they adjourned from Concord to Cambridge. Among them and through the province the spirit is ardent. And I think the inhabitants of this town are…
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On this day 250 years ago, Abigail Adams and her sister Mary Smith Cranch were doing their part for the Patriotic cause. On this day, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband’s associate William Tudor in Boston. Tudor would soon travel from Boston to Philadelphia to meet with John Adams. She gave Tudor a letter for…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. The Rights asserted by the First Continental Congress included: Resolved, N.C.D. 1. That they are entitled to life, liberty and property: and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either…
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On this day 250 years ago, Lord Dunmore commanding the northern wing of his invasion force attacking the Shawnees had crossed the Ohio River and was marching across Ohio toward the Shawnee villages. Col. Andrew Lewis was still reorganizing his command at Point Pleasant after their significant losses at the battle there three days earlier…
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