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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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On this day 250 years ago, in New York City a meeting of workingmen and merchants was convened by Isaac Low (leading the conservative merchants) and Alexander McDougall (leading the radical workingmen) to discuss New York’s response to the Boston Port Act. When the colonies subsequently went to war against Britain, Low would be a…
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On this day 250 years ago, the New York Committee of Correspondence dispatched a rider to Boston to deliver the news of the passage of the Boston Port Act. They were unaware that the Boston Committee of Correspondence had already dispatched Paul Revere to ride to New York City to deliver that news but would…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Josiah Quincy, Jr. published his pamphlet entitled Observations on the Act of Parliament commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. This influential pamphlet was widely circulated in the Colonies and persuasively set forth the Patriots’ arguments. Quincy ended his pamphlet with a…
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On this day 250 years ago, a Town Meeting in Boston moderated by SamuelAdams resolved that “it is the opinion of this town, that if the other, Colonies come, into a joint resolution to stop all importation from Great Britain, and exportations to Great Britain, and every part of the West Indies, till the Act for blocking up this harbor…
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The Boston Committee of Correspondence met at Faneuil Hall with committees from eight of the neighboring towns. The Boston Committee also appointed a subcommittee to draft a circular letter to the other colonies recommending that trade with Great Britain be suspended in protest of the Boston Port Act. Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10986/Colonial-Boston-from-the-newspapers-6-28-14
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote to the surrounding towns requesting that they send representatives to a meeting the next day at Faneuil Hall to prepare a response to the Boston Port Act. Source: Also on this day in London a…
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