On This Day In The Revolution

Yesterday 250 years ago, some inhabitants of Fairfax County, Virginia attended a meeting at the county courthouse in Alexandria (no longer standing but located at Market Square in Old Town Alexandria) to select delegates to attend the upcoming Virginia Convention scheduled for August 1. Due to inclement weather, attendance at the meeting was sparse and…

On this day 250 years ago, in Orangetown, New York, the Freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown” met at the home of Yost Mabie to adopt the Orangetown Resolutions. The Resolutions were probably drafted by John Haring who would later serve in the First Continental Congress and other political posts in the State of New York…

On this day 250 years ago in Alexandria Bryan Fairfax wrote to his close friend George Washington that Several Gentlemen of this County have been kind enough to propose me as a Candidate at the next Election. As it would give me a particular pleasure to serve with You, I have thought it very unlucky…

On this day 250 years ago, William Goddard published an announcement in the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser of his plans for creation of a Constitutional Post in America independent of the Royal Post Office. The Constitutional Post was the predecessor to today’s United States Post Office. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goddard_(publisher)#vannuysnews Also on this day 250 years ago,…

On this day 250 years ago the citizens of James City County, Virginia adopted resolutions opposing the British actions against Boston. Source: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content Also on this day 250 years ago, at Montpelier in Orange County, Virginia, James Madison wrote to his friend William Bradford in Philadelphia that As to the Sentiments of the people of…

On this day 250 years ago, Vice Admiral Samuel Graves arrived in Boston to assume command of the fleet blockading the Port of Boston and patrolling American waters. Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10986/Colonial-Boston-from-the-newspapers-6-28-14

On this day 250 years ago in Massachusetts, Royal Governor and General Thomas Gage issued a proclamation declaring the Solemn League and Covenant “unlawful”, “scandalous, traiterous, and seditious” and that those signing the Covenant were “the declared and open Enemies of the King, Parliament, and Kingdom of Great Britain.” Accordingly, Gage ordered the arrest of anyone…

On this day 250 years ago, a town meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston concluded with an endorsement of the Solemn League and Covenant and its boycott of trade with Britain. The meeting had started the day before (on June 27) and initially merchants opposed to the boycott introduced resolutions that would reject the Solemn…

250 years ago yesterday the Town of Pepperell in Massachusetts adopted the following resolutions: Under a deep sense of the distressing & very extraordinary circumstances we of this land are unhappily brought into by (as we think) a bad ministry, in our Parent Country, by the innovations already made (by act & power) on our…

On this day 250 years ago, the Magna Charta arrived in Charleston Harbor carrying “two chests and a half of tea.” The Charleston Committee demanded that the Captain of the Magna Charta leave the tea onboard and the captain agreed. When it was later discovered that the tea had been unloaded, an angry mob would…