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On this day 250 years ago, Paul Revere rode into Philadelphia to deliver the Suffolk Resolves to the Continental Congress. Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/suffolk-resolves/ Also on this day 250 years ago the honorable delegates, now met in General Congress, were elegantly entertained by the gentlemen of this city. Having met at the City Tavern about 3 o’clock,…
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This night 250 years, Patriots thinly disguised as “Pickwacket Indians” boarded a sloop named the Cynthia moored in the harbor of York, Massachusetts (now York, Maine). They removed around 150 pounds of tea, but instead of dumping it in the harbor, they carried it ashore and it reportedly was never seen again. Sources: True Maine Patriots: The Little-Known…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Joseph Palmer wrote to his neighbor and friend John Adams attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia regarding the status of the rebellion in Massachusetts: The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral to be found in the…
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On this day 250 years ago, in Boston Lt. Robert MacKenzie of the British 43rd Regiment of Foot, wrote to his friend and former commander George Washington in Philadelphia. MacKenzie was from Virginia and had commanded a company in Washington’s regiment of Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, but had been commissioned in…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Town Meeting of Sudbury, Massachusetts voted “to purchase Six hundred Weight [of gunpowder] & 300 French Flynts or 500 English Flynts, [and] to purchase a Chest of Arms to the Number of 30 with Bayonets . . . .” Source: https://sudburyweekly.com/
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On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere departed Boston to ride to Philadelphia carrying copies of the Suffolk Resolves to the Continental Congress. Revere’s ride this day may have been more important for American history than his ride the following year that would be immortalized by poetry. Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/suffolk-resolves/
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On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Massachusetts delegates John Adams and Sam Adams dined with Joseph Reed, who was one of the leading Patriots of Pennsylvania, albeit not a delegate in Congress. Adams recorded in his diary that Reed “says the Sentiments of People here, are growing more and more favourable every day.”…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Suffolk County Convention meeting in Milton, Massachusetts adopted the Suffolk Resolves. These 19 resolutions were drafted by Dr. Joseph Warren and were later adopted in large part by the Continental Congress. They were the most influential of the many resolutions adopted by counties and other local governments in…
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On this day 250 years ago in the Continental Congress meeting at Carpenter’s Hall Philadelphia, John Adams made notes of the deliberations of the Committee for Stating Rights, Grievances and Means of Redress. Roger Sherman of Connecticut made the most radical comments in the debate: The Colonies not bound to the King or Crown by…
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On this day 250 years ago, Rev. Jacob Duché of Christ Church in Philadelphia gave the convocation prayer at the First Continental Congress: O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and…
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