On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago, Dr. Benjamin Rush delivered an oration “before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia: containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations ; together with an appendix, containing, proofs…

On this day 250 years ago the Town of Andover, Massachusetts appointed a Committee of 5 — Samuel Phillips, Esq., Captain Asa Foster, Joshua Holt, Samuel Osgood and Dr. Joseph Osgood — to respond to a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence about the arrival of ships carrying East India Company tea. At her…

On this day 250 years ago the Pennsylvania Gazette published “A Lady’s Adieu to Her Tea Table” — a poem that, as the name implies, shows that the Patriots protesting the Tea Act were not all men.

On the day 250 years ago America’s greatest supporter in Parliament, Edmund Burke, wrote future American General Charles Lee, who had recently emigrated to America, about Wedderburn’s “furious Philippic against poor Dr. Franklin” in the Privy Council a few days earlier. Source: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/01/brilliant-agony-edmund-burke-spring-1774.html [sorry I am posting this one a little late]

On this day 250 years ago, Charles Clinton Beatty wrote to his brother-in-law and fellow student Rev. Enoch Green about the destruction of tea earlier in the month at the College of New Jersey in Princeton: “to show our patriotism, we gathered all the Steward’s winter store of Tea, and having made a fire on…

On this day 250 years ago, posters went up in Boston signed by “Joyce Junior”, the Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering. The posters read simply: Brethren and Fellow Citizens! This is to Certify, That the modern Punishment lately inflicted on the ignoble John Malcolm, was not done by our Order — we…

On this day 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin appeared before the Privy Council in London. Franklin assumed he had been summoned to the Privy Council as agent for Massachuseito address the requests that the Massachusetts legislature had filed with the Privy Council to have Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson and Lieutenant Governor Andrew Oliver removed from office. Instead…

On this day 250 years ago,  British Secretary of State for the Colonies Lord Dartmouth received a report from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie predicting that more soldiers were needed in order to maintain control in Boston. Source: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/british-react-boston-tea-party/

On this day 250 years ago, Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson’s official report on the Boston Tea Party arrived in London, along with a report from the First Lord of Admiralty John Montagu, who happened to be in Boston during the Desttruction of the Tea. Monatagu’s report identified John Hancock and Samuel Adams as the ringleaders…

On January 26, 250 years ago [sorry I am posting late] William Bollan, the agent for Massachusetts in London presented a Petition to the King in Council that began with the assertion that “perfect harmony between Great Britain and the colonies . . . [had] continued until it was disturb’d by the errors and innovations of…