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On this day 250 years ago at Peyton Randolph’s home in Williamsburg, 25 ex-Members of the House of Burgesses write and sign a letter to the other Burgesses informing them of “the Receipt of the Letters and Resolves from Boston”, Maryland and Philadelphia and declaring That it is the Opinion of all the late House…
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On this day 250 years ago, the Royal Navy positioned nine ships including the 64-gun HMS Captain, Admiral John Montagu’s flagship, in Boston Harbor to prepare for the blockade of the Port of Boston set to begin on June 1. A blockade is an act of war and I think it is fair to assert…
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On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia Committee of Correspondence including Thomas Jefferson, met. The Committee ordered letters to be sent to all the other colonies transmitting the declaration adopted by the “Association of Members of the Late House of Burgesses” at the meeting on the previous day. Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2227%20May%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=6&sr= Also on…
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On this day 250 years ago at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, 89 members of the dissolved Virginia House of Burgesses met to adopt an “Association” in response to the Boston Port Act and other restrictions on American Liberty coming from London. Among other things, the Association, without coordinating with the other colonies, joined Rhode…
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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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