On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago Loyalist John Malcolm was tarred and feathered by a Patriot mob in Boston. Malcolm was a customs official and outspoken supporter of British authority who was despised in Massachusetts and across New England for his arrogant behavior. He was threatening to strike with his cane a young boy sledding on…

On this day 250 years ago, Philip Vickers Fithian writing in his journal at Nomini Hall plantation in Virginia where he was employed as a tutor to the wealthy Carter family, said that “There are great Professions of Liberty here expressed in Songs Toasts, &c. Yesterday News came of the Arrival of Ships with Tea;…

On this day 250 years ago, 101 Georgia militia were encamped at Williams Creek near the Ogeechee River in Georgia. The militia had been called out by the Royal Governor to protect settlers from a marauding band of 100 or so Creek (and a few Cherokee) Indians who had attacked farms on December 25 and…

On this day 250 years ago, the first reports of the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor were published in London newspapers. Source: https://www.revolution250.org/250th-commemorations/250th-anniversary-of-the-boston-tea-party/

On this day 250 years ago,  the East India Trading Company sent a detailed report of the Boston Tea Party to Lord Dartmouth, the British Secretary of State. Source: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/british-react-boston-tea-party/

On this day 250 years ago, the General Assembly of the Colony of New York formed a Committee of Correspondence, joining ten other colonies in this initial step on the road to self-governance independent of Britain. Source: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/committees-of-correspondence/

On this day 250 years ago, the ship Hayley arrived in England carrying news of the Boston Tea Party. Source: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/

On this day 250 years ago townspeople of Marblehead, Massachusetts, began a series of riots that eventually resulted in the destruction of a private hospital that had been established by leading merchants of the town to control smallpox outbreaks. The rioters were outraged that the proprietors of the hospital were not abiding by restrictions that…

On this day 250 years ago, the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire adopted Tea Act Resolves that condemned the tea tax as “unreasonable and unconstitutional” and stated that “it must be evident to every one that is not lost to virtue nor devoid of common sense that [the taxes] will be totally destructive to our…

During this month 250 years ago, students at Princeton (then known as the  College of New Jersey) hosted another tea party. Student Charles Clinton Beatty wrote that “to show our patriotism, we gathered all the Steward’s winter store of Team, and having made a fire on the campus, we there burnt near a dozen pounds,…