On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago, the Town of Dover, New Hampshire adopted a Resolution praising “the general Exertions, and noble Struggles” of Patriots blocking imports of British East India Company tea.  Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p. 365 n. 54                      

On this day 250 years ago the Massachusetts Spy published an article about how Philadelphia turned away the Polly and lauded “the united spirit” of Patriots in Philadelphia, Boston, Charleston and New York. Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83021194/1774-01-13/ed-1/

On this day 250 years ago Patriots erected a flagpole and unfurled a Liberty Flag at the corner of what is now Church and Union Streets in Schenectady, New York. In 1776 and 1777, the flag was also reportedly carried during the Revolutionary War by the 3rd New York Regiment. Source: https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2023/12/schenectady-liberty-pole-flag/

On this day 250 years ago, Francis Salvador was elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress, becoming the first Jew to be elected to public office in America. Salvador would soon become one of the leading Patriots in South Carolina. Within two years he would die in combat fighting for American Independence. Source: https://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Today-in-History-The-first-American-Jewish-patriot-441126

On this day 250 years ago, the people of Concord, Massachusetts held a town meeting to draft a response to a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence. The Boston Committee asked the people of Concord to resist the Tea Act “in a most zealous and determined manner” and “not to consume any tea in our…

On this day 250 years ago, the Dartmouth set sail from Boston Harbor for London. The ship was carrying a load of whale oil plus the ship’s owner and captain and other witnesses to testify to the British government about the Destruction of its original load of Tea in Boston Harbor. Source: https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/three-ships-tea-party On this…

On this day 250 years ago, Captain Juan Batista de Anza of the Spanish Army left the Tubac Presidio (south of Tuscon in present day Arizona) with a force of 20 soldiers, 3 priests, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle and 140 horses to establish an overland route to California from Mexico. The Spanish government was…

On this day 250 years ago, the Connecticut Gazette published a report on the shipwreck of the William and its cargo of East India Company tea off Cape Cod. Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at 364 n. 48

On this day 250 years ago, the Town of Newton, Massachusetts held a town meeting that adopted unanimously Resolves drafted by a Committee of Five led by Charles Pelham, Esq. The Newton Resolves included: 2. That in justice to ourselves, our fellow-colonists and our posterity, we cannot, nor will, voluntarily or lamely, submit to .…

On this day 250 years ago, 54 chests and one barrel of tea salvaged from the William were unloaded to Castle William in Boston Harbor. This tea was from the fourth ship with East India Company tea headed to Boston that had shipwrecked off Cape Cod. Aware of the fate of the tea from the…