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  • November 15, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago, an article written by “Junius Brutus” in the South Carolina Gazette warned Carolinians that the Tea Act enacted by Parliament would “establish a precedent for subjugating you to future impositions equally unjust and impolitic- to raise a revenue out of your pockets, against your consent- and to render assemblies of…

  • November 14, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Hamlet was performed by The American Company in Philadelphia with an original prologue written by William Eddis, that extolled “the sweets of Liberty”. Even at the theater, there was no escaping Americans’ demands for their rights. Source: https://research.colonialwilliamsburg.org/DigitalLibrary/view/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports%5CRR0057.xml&highlight=#n850 at p. 231 (the prologue was reported in the…

  • November 13, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago, Peter Timothy announced in his South Carolina Gazette (two other competing newspapers in Charleston used the same title) that “300 chests of tea were on their way to Charles Town.” He urged Patriots to “band together to take the necessary steps to prevent the landing” of the tea. Source:…

  • November 12, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago, John Fleeming, former publisher of the Chronicle in Boston, wrote British Prime Minister Lord North seeking compensation. The Chronicle was funded by contracts with the British government and had supported the British government’s policies. As a result the paper was forced to close by the Patriots of Boston, and…

  • November 11, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago , the Massachusetts Spy published on its front page radical arguments that would underpin a Revolution to establish a democratic government: “The people at large, are . . . the only safe repository of the power of framing, amending and repealing laws. . . . “The province was from…

  • November 10, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago, Moses Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, one of the four Brown brothers who were the leading Patriots in that colony, freed his slaves with this letter of manumission: “Whereas I am clearly convinced that the buying and selling of men of what color soever is contrary to the Divine…

  • November 9, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago the Essex Gazette in Salem, Massachusetts republished a reply by the commissioners who would receive the East India Company’s tea in Boston indicating that they were not intimidated by the threats issued by the Sons of Liberty. It was becoming clear to the Patriots that rallies, pamphlets and warnings…

  • November 8, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal published on its front page a letter from “A Countryman” from Chester County, Pennsylvania that had previously been published in Philadelphia. The letter argued that “Surely there is not a man in North America so lost to virtue and common sense as to doubt…

  • November 7, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago, George Washington was visiting the home of his sister-in-law Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett (Martha Washington’s sister) and her husband Burwell Bassett Sr. Burwell Bassett was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses with Washington and would join his brother-in-law as a member of the First and Second Virginia…

  • November 6, 2023

    On this day 250 years ago George Washington was authorized to survey 10,000 acres along the Kanawha River in western Virginia (now in West Virginia) by the Virginia Governor’s Council. He had been granted 5000 acres for his service in the French and Indian War and purchased the remaining acreage from other officers who had…

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  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 12, 1775

    On this day 250 years ago off the coast of Georgia, three British warships appear off Tybee Point. Source: Smithsonian at 106; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, Samuel Chase wrote to John Adams regarding their return to Congress when it would reconvene: The Business of our provincial Convention draws to…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 11, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Frenchman Emmanuel de Pliarne wrote to General Washington about the secret contract that he and Pierre Penet were negotiating with the Continental Congress: We . . . find the Sentiments of their Committee of Secrecy very favourable, to us, and we asure your Excellency, that nothing shall…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 10, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago on board the HMS Scorpion off the mouth of the Cape Fear River just below Wilmington, North Carolina, Royal Governor Josiah Martin issued a proclamation asking all Loyalists to rally to “His Majesty’s Royal Standard” and assemble at Brunswick, North Carolina. From there they would march on Wilmington and…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 12, 1775

    On this day 250 years ago off the coast of Georgia, three British warships appear off Tybee Point. Source: Smithsonian at 106; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rice_Boats On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, Samuel Chase wrote to John Adams regarding their return to Congress when it would reconvene: The Business of our provincial Convention draws to…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 11, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Frenchman Emmanuel de Pliarne wrote to General Washington about the secret contract that he and Pierre Penet were negotiating with the Continental Congress: We . . . find the Sentiments of their Committee of Secrecy very favourable, to us, and we asure your Excellency, that nothing shall…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — January 10, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago on board the HMS Scorpion off the mouth of the Cape Fear River just below Wilmington, North Carolina, Royal Governor Josiah Martin issued a proclamation asking all Loyalists to rally to “His Majesty’s Royal Standard” and assemble at Brunswick, North Carolina. From there they would march on Wilmington and…

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