On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago, the Exchange building in Charleston was filled to capacity with angry Patriots upset with the arrival of the ship London carrying East India Company tea the day before. The crowd formed a Committee composed of Christopher Gadsden, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Ferguson and Daniel Cannon and many…

On this day 250 years ago, a Resolution was issued by “The People” that declared that those “aiding and assisting in” the landing of East India Company tea from the ships in Boston Harbor will “in a great Measure accelerate Confusion and a Civil War: This is to assure such public enemies of this Country,…

On this day 250 years ago, young college graduate James Madison wrote to his classmate William Bradford and asked Bradford about “the extent of your religious Toleration. Here allow me to propose the following Queries. Is an Ecclesiastical Establishment absolutely necessary to support civil society in a supream Government? & how far it is hurtful…

On this day 250 years ago, “The People” of Boston met again at Old South Meeting House to consider the response of the East India Company’s consignees. The meeting was interrupted by the delivery of a proclamation of acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson that ordered the meeting “To disperse and to surcease all further unlawful proceedings…

On this 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence and Sons of Liberty called a meeting of Bostonians and citizens from neighboring towns at Faneuil Hall to respond to the arrival of the Dartmouth and its cargo of East India Company tea. Sam Adams estimated the size of the crowd to be 5000 and…

On this day 250 years ago, the Dartmouth, carrying 114 chests of tea, sailed into Boston Harbor. Source: https://www.masshist.org/revolution/teaparty.php#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%2028%20November%2C%20the,is%20called%20at%20Faneuil%20Hall. Today, November 28, 2023, at 11:00 am Eastern, the City of Boston will lay wreaths at the graves of Samuel Adams and John Hancock to commemorate the response of Adams, Hancock and the Sons of Liberty to…

On this day 250 years ago, the “Committee for Tarring and Feathering” sent a public letter to river pilots threatening them as the committee’s name implies if they assisted Captain Ayers and the Polly in docking to unload the ship’s cargo of tea in Philadelphia. Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.14303100/?st=text

On this day 250 years ago, The Massachusetts Spy published a letter by someone writing under the pseudonym “Locke” addressed to The American Colonies with a clarion call to rebellion: “YOUR exertions in the great cause of freedom have been noble; and they must be continued with redoubled vigour. The time is now come which…

On this day 250 years ago the Sons of Liberty in New York led by Isaac Sears were expecting the arrival of a ship carrying East India Company. They were prepared to block it from unloading its contents but the ship had been blown off course in a storm and would not arrive until April.…

On this day 250 years ago, George Washington dined with Peyton Randolph at Randolph’s home in Williamsburg, Virginia. We do not know what they talked about but at that time Randolph was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses and Washington was a leading Member of the House of Burgesses. Only 17 months later Randolph…