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  • September 10, 2023

    The Georgia Commons House of Assembly passes a resolution creating a Committee of Correspondence. Georgia joins Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Carolina to establish the bodies that would soon take over effective governance of the colonies rebelling against royal authority. Source: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/committees-of-correspondence/

  • September 10, 2023

    Hello Anyone who finds this blog: I have never blogged before but want to make a contribution to the Semiquincentennial of our Nation. WordPress does not seem to think that “Semiquincentennial” is a word and I had to look it up. I remember the celebration and commemoration of the Bicentennial well; that word was catchy…

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  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 24, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress Resolved, That Mr. Trumbull, the commissary general, be directed to provide and forward to General Schuyler, 2,000 barrels of pork, with all possible dispatch, for the use of the continental Army in Canada. Resolved, That John Alsop, Roger Sherman, and Francis Lewis be…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 23, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown (now Charleston), South Carolina, Chief Justice William Henry Drayton, in opening the State’s courts under its new constitution, instructed the grand jury that In this Court, . . . you are now met to regulate your verdicts, under a new Constitution of Government, independent of Royal authority…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 22, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago at the Effingham Tavern in Cumberland County, Virginia, the People of Cumberland County approved a resolution directing the County’s representatives in the Virginia Convention to support Independence. The resolution had been drafted by Carter Henry Harrison and memorably called for Virginia to “abjure any Allegeance to his Britannick Majesty,…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 24, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress Resolved, That Mr. Trumbull, the commissary general, be directed to provide and forward to General Schuyler, 2,000 barrels of pork, with all possible dispatch, for the use of the continental Army in Canada. Resolved, That John Alsop, Roger Sherman, and Francis Lewis be…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 23, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago in Charlestown (now Charleston), South Carolina, Chief Justice William Henry Drayton, in opening the State’s courts under its new constitution, instructed the grand jury that In this Court, . . . you are now met to regulate your verdicts, under a new Constitution of Government, independent of Royal authority…

  • On this day 250 years ago in the Revolution — April 22, 1776

    On this day 250 years ago at the Effingham Tavern in Cumberland County, Virginia, the People of Cumberland County approved a resolution directing the County’s representatives in the Virginia Convention to support Independence. The resolution had been drafted by Carter Henry Harrison and memorably called for Virginia to “abjure any Allegeance to his Britannick Majesty,…

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