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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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On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote Joseph Galloway in Philadelphia that “3 Ships of the Line are fitting out for America, which are to be over-mann’d, to have a double Number of Marines, and several arm’d Tenders; it is rumour’d they are to stop all the Ports of America.” Additionally,…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts reconvened at the Concord Courthouse. The Provincial Congress would govern all of Massachusetts, but for Boston, from Concord until December 1774. Sources: https://massachusetts250.org/event/the-250th-anniversary-of-the-first-massachusetts-provincial-congress/
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On October 10, 1774 at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which was then claimed by Virginia and also claimed by the Shawnee who called the place “Chinoudaista”, Virginia militia commanded by Col. Andrew Lewis fought Shawnee and allied warriors commanded by Chief Hokoleskwa, also known as Chief Cornstalk, at the Battle of Point Pleasant. The Virginians…
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, George Washington wrote a reply to the letter he had received from his friend Robert McKenzie in Boston. McKenzie was from Virginia and had served under Washington’s command in the French and Indian War but had made a career in the British Army and was then serving…
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