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On this day 250 years ago in London, John Temple wrote to his father-in-law James Bowdoin in Boston that Dr. Franklin is dismissed from his office of Post-Master in America; but it is impossible the Province will let him be a loser by it, they must fall upon some Means of raising Money for paying…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, the British Cabinet began drafting what would become the Boston Port Act. This bill would order the closing of the port of Boston until the East India Company was repaid for the Destruction of the Tea. The bill would become the first of the “Intolerable Acts” Parliament…
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On this day 250 years ago from London Benjamin Franklin wrote his friend and ally Joseph Galloway, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly an optimistic assessment of the future of America after the coming war with Britain concluded: I must soon quit the scene, but you may live to see our country flourish; as it will…
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On this day 250 years ago, George Washington wrote to Andrew Lewis that Lord Hillsborough, the former Secretary of State for the Colonies, had held a “malignant disposition towards Americans,” so Washington disregarded Hillsborough’s interpretation “that Provincial officers were not comprehended in that Proclamation” authorizing land grants to veterans of the French and Indian War.…
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On this day 250 years ago the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that “we hear from Princeton, in New Jersey, that the officers and students of the college, have unanimously agreed to drink no more TEA.” Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Revolutionary_Princeton_1774_1783/2SMAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22January+31,+1774%22&pg=PT291&printsec=frontcover
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly (and future member of the Continental Congress and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts) Thomas Cushing about Franklin’s humiliation by the Privy Council in January. Franklin explained that he was insulted for merely looking out for the interests of Massachusetts colony…
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On this day 250 years ago the South Carolina Gazette reported on the warfare on the Georgia border with the Creek Nation including the massacre of the William White family on December 25, the massacre of the William, Sherrill family on January 14, the rout on January 23 of the force of 100 Georgia militia sent to the…
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On this day 250 years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, Superintendent of Indian Affairs John Stuart wrote Lord Dartmouth about the torture and murder of Lieutenant Daniel Grant of the Georgia militia by Creek Indians in January. This incident and associated raids conducted by the Creeks and Cherokees against white settlers in the Carolina backcountry would…
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On this day 250 years ago in London, Lord Dartmouth wrote to his friend John Thornton about the resistance of the Patriots in Boston: How fatally and effectually they have now shut the door against all possibility of present relief for any of the things they complain of, and how utterly vain it must be…
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On this day 250 years ago in Boston, the young African-American poet Phillis Wheatley wrote to the Reverend Samuel Occum to commend him for an open letter he had written criticizing Christian ministers who enslaved Africans. Wheatley wrote: I have this day received your obliging kind Epistle, and am greatly satisfied with your Reasons respecting the Negroes,…
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