On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland the first session of the Annapolis Convention concluded. After Royal Governor Eden dissolved the Maryland Colonial Assembly, 92 members of the Assembly representing all 16 counties in Maryland organized themselves as a Convention that began meeting in Annapolis on June 22. During the four days of…

On this day 250 years ago, citizens of Spotsylvania County, Virginia met at the Town House (i.e., city hall) of Fredericksburg to adopt resolutions in support of Boston and to elect delegates to the Virginia Convention set to meet in August. The Spotsylvania Resolves declared that “we owe no Obedience to any Act of the…

On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Clementina Rind’s Virginia Gazette published in its lead article the following revolutionary sentiments: American freedom will soon be annihilated, unless we unitedly exert our utmost virtue and firmness; nothing less can recue our liberties, now eagerly grasped by the ruffian hand of power. . . . As…

On this day 250 years ago in London, the British Parliament enacted the Quebec Act or Canada Act. This Act extended the boundaries of the Province of Quebec south to the Ohio River, blocking the expansion of the American colonies westward and providing for trials in the expanded Quebec territory by judges without juries. Although…

Yesterday 250 years ago, a general Town meeting was held in the Town of Huntingdon on Long Island in New York led by Israel Wood, then President of the Town’s Board of Trustees. That meeting adopted seven resolutions that have come to be known as Huntington’s Declaration of Rights. The first resolution was “that every…

On this day 250 years ago, the citizens ofFrederick County, Maryland, met at Frederick County Court House in support of the besieged citizens of Boston. The meeting was chaired by John Hanson, who would in 1781 at the end of the Revolution be elected as President of the Confederation Congress (which was the highest ranking elected…

On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Committee of Overseers created the Committee of Ways and Means; its purpose was to receive and distribute all donations sent to Boston in relief from the Boston Port Act. Source: https://allthingsliberty.com/2023/10/the-winter-of-1774-1775-in-boston/

On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, several thousand people gathered in the State House Yard to adopt the following Resolutions: I. Resolved, that the Act of Parliament, for shutting up the port of Boston, is unconstitutional; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town; dangerous to- the liberties of the British colonies; and that, therefore,…

On this day 250 years ago the Patriots in Massachusetts were very busy. The General Assembly was meeting in Salem where Royal Governor Gage sent the Provincial Secretary with an order dissolving the Assembly. However, the Assembly members decided to “keep the door fast” and blocked him from entering the meeting to deliver the order.…

On this day 250 years ago, the inhabitants of Dunmore County (now Shenandoah County), Virginia gathered in the town of Woodstock to adopt resolutions in response to the closure of the Port of Boston and the anticipated Intolerable Acts. The meeting chose to copy verbatim the Resolves passed on June 8 by neighboring Frederick County,…