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On this day 250 years ago at the home of bricklayer Jacob Graff and his wife Maria Graff in Philadelphia, where he was residing while in the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson made edits to his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence after receiving comments from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. The Graff House stood…
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On this day 250 years ago in Burlington, the New Jersey Provincial Congress elected Richard Stockton, Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, and the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon as Delegates to represent the Colony of New Jersey in the Continental Congress and directed them to join with the Delegates of the other Colonies in Continental…
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On this day 250 years ago in Burlington, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey declared Governor William Franklin to be “a virulent enemy to this country, and a person that may prove dangerous.” Although he was the son of Patriot leader Benjamin Franklin who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the New Jersey Provincial Congress…
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On this day 250 years ago at Natick, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a town meeting unanimously voted that we the inhabitants of Natick, in town-meeting assembled, do hereby declare . . . that, should the honourable Continental Congress declare these American Colonies independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, we will, with our lives and fortunes, join with the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Colonel Nathanael Heard arrested New Jersey Governor William Franklin and brought him to the Provincial Congress at Burlington. Sources: https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/congress-imprison-governor-william-franklin.html
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On this day 250 years ago at Fort Chambly in Canada, Brig. Gen. John Sullivan and his officers held a council of war and concluded that “we are driven to the sad necessity of abandoning Canada” because the men were “lifeless” suffering from “small-pox, famine and disorder.” The Continentals burned the forts at Chambly and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Watertown, the Massachusetts General Assembly passed a resolution to pay Mary Hubbard of Worcester the wages earned by her husband Capt. Jonas Hubbard who was killed during the assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775. We should remember the sacrifices of the families of the men who gave…
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On this day 250 years ago in Norwich, Connecticut, John Wampee of the Tunxis tribe of Connecticut signed on the row galley Shark of the Connecticut State Navy. Wampee had fought at Bunker Hill and he would serve on the Shark as it deployed to the New York and fought with other American ships against Royal Navy…
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On this day 250 years ago in Exeter, the New Hampshire House of Representatives unanimously instructs New Hampshire’s delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for Independence. Source:
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia Gazette published the “Address and Instructions of the Freeholders of” Buckingham County to their delegates to the Virginia Convention. The Address included: Actuated by a warm and sincere regard for the interests and rights of mankind, and a deep sense of our present situation, we wish…
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