On This Day In The Revolution

On this day 250 years ago, the Connecticut Gazette published a report on the shipwreck of the William and its cargo of East India Company tea off Cape Cod. Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at 364 n. 48

On this day 250 years ago, the Town of Newton, Massachusetts held a town meeting that adopted unanimously Resolves drafted by a Committee of Five led by Charles Pelham, Esq. The Newton Resolves included: 2. That in justice to ourselves, our fellow-colonists and our posterity, we cannot, nor will, voluntarily or lamely, submit to .…

On this day 250 years ago, 54 chests and one barrel of tea salvaged from the William were unloaded to Castle William in Boston Harbor. This tea was from the fourth ship with East India Company tea headed to Boston that had shipwrecked off Cape Cod. Aware of the fate of the tea from the…

On this day 250 years ago, the Pennsylvania Packet published lyrics to a song celebrating the Boston Tea Party. Patriots in all the colonies celebrated the action of the Boston “Sons of Freedom” to ensure that their “rights shall ne’er be lost!” Source: http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Historic_Songs/Ballad-the-Tea-Party.phtml

On this day 250 years ago, war parties of Coweta Creek Indians were roaming the Georgia frontier attacking settlements that encroached on Creek lands. At this point the Georgia colonists looked to Royal Governor James Wright for protection but within a couple of years the Cowetas would be allied with the British in attacking the Georgia…

On this day 250 years ago, in Massachusetts Hannah Winthrop wrote Mercy Otis Warren that: “The Union of the Colonies, the firm & sedate resolutionof the People is an Omen for good unto us. And be itknown unto Britain, even American daughters are Politicians& Patriots and will aid the good work with their FemaleEfforts.” Source:…

On this day 250 years ago, Samuel Adams wrote Arthur Lee in London to tell him about the Boston Tea Party. Adams summed up his enthusiasm for the Patriots’ action opposing the Tea Act: “You cannot imagine the height of joy that sparkles in the eyes and animates the countenances as well as the hearts…

On this day 250 years ago, the town of Medford, Massachusetts adopted resolutions in support of the Patriots of Boston that asserted the British Government intended “to fasten the Chains of Slavery upon a burden’d and distressed people” and that “We wish to maintain Constitutional Liberty ourselves,” The Medford Resolves, however further objected to the “Iniquitous…

On this day 250 years ago, one thousand Patriots gathered in the Market Square of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to burn the tea they had collected in the town. Source: https://www.revolution250.org/250th-commemorations/250th-anniversary-of-the-boston-tea-party/

On this day (or really yesterday since I am posting this after midnight) 250 years ago, another mass meeting of Patriots was held in Philadelphia to deal with the tea aboard the Polly. Reports state that 8000 people attended and the reports of the meeting of 6000 the day before may be conflating the two…