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On this day 250 years ago, Royal Governor Dunmore of Virginia summoned the Burgesses, numbering nearly one hundred, to the Council chamber in the Capitol in Williamsburg. Dunmore informed the Burgesses: I have in my hand a Paper published by Order of your House, conceived in such Terms as reflect highly upon his Majesty and…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Clementina Rind printed a broadside of The Call to Fasting and Prayer in Williamsburg at the request of the House of Burgesses. The date and the printer of the broadside are somewhat uncertain. Either Clementina Rind or her competitors Purdie & Dixon could have printed it,…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Robert Carter Nicholas, Member of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer of Virginia introduces an Order for a Day of Fasting and Prayer to Virginia House of Burgesses. The Order passes unanimously but would soon receive a furious response for its revolutionary language: This House being deeply impressed…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and other members of the Virginia House of Burgesses met in the evening to discuss how the Virginia House should respond to the news of the Boston Port Act that had just been received in Virginia. They…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Committee of Correspondence under the pen of Sam Adams wrote to the Marblehead Committee of Correspondence that We have receivd a Letter from New York dated the Day before the Post came out from that City, advising us that there was to be a meeting of the…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence provided Paul Revere (or perhaps a different rider — scholars differ whether Revere personally rode from New York to Philadelphia or dispatched another rider from New York to carry the Boston Committee’s correspondence) with their response to the Boston Committee’s request that other colonies…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government Act and the ironically named (from the Patriot perspective) Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice. King George III approved both Acts on this same day. The Massachusetts Government Act suspended elected offices in the colony and allowed the Crown to appoint…
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On this day 250 years ago in Farmington, Connecticut, almost one thousand people assembled to erect a forty-five feet high Liberty Pole. After erecting the Liberty Pole a copy of the Boston Port Act was read to the crowd, and then burned. The assembly then adopted the following resolutions: 1st. That it is the greatest dignity,…
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On this day 250 years ago the people of the town of Chestertown, Maryland assembled in a mass meeting and adopted the Chestertown Resolves. These Resolves were modeled on resolutions passed by towns in Massachusetts and other colonies. The Chestertown Resolves declared: that no duty or taxes can constitutionally be [imposed] on us, but by…
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On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere rode into New York carrying a copy of the Boston Port Act and the recommendations of the Boston Committee of Correspondence that New York and other towns join Boston in committing to the non-importation of goods from Britain. Also on this day, the town meeting of Providence,…
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