On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia “a Provincial Meeting of [75] Deputies Chosen by [11 Pennsylvania] Counties” met to adopt resolutions in support of Boston and Massachusetts. The Pennsylvania Resolutions proclaimed the Intolerable Acts “unconstitutional,” pledged aid to Boston, and declared that there is an absolute necessity, that a congress of deputies from…

On this day 250 years ago, a meeting of the inhabitants of Fairfax County, Virginia at the county courthouse in Alexandria elected George Washington and Charles Broadwater as Burgesses to the next session of the Virginia Assembly. The meeting lasted two hours and was “conducted with great order and regularity” according to an observer. The…

On this day 250 years ago, approximately 75 citizens of Attleboro, Massachusetts signed the Solemn League and Covenant circulated by the Boston Committee of Correspondence. About sixty of their names are still legible but all should be remembered for their commitment to the Patriot cause.

On this day 250 years ago, “a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of New Kent, at the Courthouse of the said County” in Virginia adopted the New Kent Resolves. These resolutions were similar to the resolutions adopted by other counties in Virginia and the other American colonies in protest against the…

On this day 250 years ago, from Mount Vernon George Washington wrote to his brother John Augustine Washington about meetings in Alexandria to draft and approve the Fairfax Resolves: We have not, as yet had a meeting of the Inhabitants of this County; owing in the first place, to my not getting up from Wmsburg…

On this day 250 years ago Governor Dunmore of Virginia left Williamsburg to ride to Winchester where he planned to raise two regiments of militia to invade the Shawnee and Mingo nations along the Ohio River. Source: https://raogk.org/military-records/lord-dunmores-war/

On July 9, 1774, the Patriots of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Essex, Fauquier and Norfolk Counties, Virginia all adopted resolutions supporting Boston, opposing the Intolerable Acts and calling for a “General Congress” of all the colonies. Sourcees: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/genealogy/webdocs/mercer.htm

On this day 250 years ago, Shawnee Indians attacked a party of settlers three miles away from the newly formed settlement of Harrod’s Town, Virginia, and killed two men. Harrod’s Town (now Harrodsburg) was the first white settlement in what is now the state of Kentucky. It had been founded less than a month earlier…

On this day 250 years ago the Patriots of Culpeper County gathered at the county courthouse to adopt the Culpeper Resolves in opposition to the Intolerable Acts and the closure of the Port of Boston.Culpeper County will erect an historical marker in the City of Culpeper to commemorate this event today and on July 9,…

On this day 250 years ago at the Exchange building in Charleston, South Carolina, there was a “General Meeting” of planters, merchants and tradesmen to determine South Carolina’s response to the Intolerable Acts. This meeting named a “General Committee” of 99 members that would end up effectively serving as South Carolina’s government as British authority…