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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia House of Burgesses (often referred to as “the Assembly” then as it is now) convened one day late, having failed to achieve the required quorum of 50 members the previous day when the session was scheduled to begin. As one of the actions on the…
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On this day 250 years ago a ship carrying the first news of the enactment of Boston Port Act arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, although it would be a few more days before the news reached Boston. Sources: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p. 78.
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On this day 250 years ago, the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that effigies of Alexander Wedderburn, Solicitor General of Great Britain, and Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts, were paraded through the streets of Philadelphia on a cart, then hanged and burned. Wedderburn and Hutchinson were the British officials who were most responsible for the sacking of…
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On this day 250 years ago, the annual Boston Town Meeting elected Boston’s representatives to the Massachusetts House. Samuel Adams was elected with 535 of the 536 votes cast. Adams was also named the moderator of the Town Meeting. Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/samuel-adams-104357
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On this day 250 years ago in Parliament in London Isaac Barre delivered a prescient speech predicting the outcome of Parliament’s adoption of the Intolerable Acts: The question now before us is, whether we will choose to bring over the affections of all our Colonies by lenient measures, or to wage war with them? I…
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On this day 250 years ago, the London Magazine published the political cartoon “The able Doctor, or America swallowing the Bitter Draught.” The cartoon was reprinted by Paul Revere and widely distributed by Patriots throughout the American Colonies. Source: https://emuseum.history.org/objects/16031/the-able-doctor-or-america-swallowing-the-bitter-draught
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On this day 250 years at Baker’s Bottom in what is now Hancock County West Virginia, across the Ohio River from the mouth of Yellow Creek in Ohio, a group of 20 some White settlers led by a villain named Daniel Greathouse perpetrated a massacre of friendly Native Americans that directly resulted in Dunmore’s War…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Connecticut Journal published “The PLAN for establishing a New American POST-OFFICE” proposed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence working with William Goddard. The Plan proposed to replace the Royal Post Office with what Goddard called a “Constitutional Post Office” to serve the American Colonies. The Plan proposed to…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Thomas Cushing, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, that he was sending “the Report of the Committee of the [House of] Lords, which seems hard upon us, as every thing written by any Officer of Government is taken for undoubted Truth.” On the same…
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On this day 250 years ago Virginia frontiersman were attacking Native Americans on the Ohio River south of Wheeling (then in Virginia and now West Virginia). Two days earlier, a body of 80 to 90 frontiersmen led by Michael Cresap had declared war in the Indian fashion by gathering to strike a pole with their…
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