The tea duty continued as a pepper-corn rent,
as a badge of sovereignty over the colonies,
April 12

Mr. McDougall, of New-York, committed to
jail for publishing an address to the inhabi-
tants, (he was the first sufferer for liberty)
February 8
The armed schooner Gaspee, commanded by
Lieutenant Dudington, burnt in Providence
river, by a party in which Mr. John Brown, a
considerable merchant of Providence, was
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The East India Company's tea, consisting of 342 chests, destroyed at Boston, December 16 1773 Boston port bill received the royal assent,March 31 1774 Governor Gage arrives at Boston, May 13 In consequence of the port bill, business was finished at the custom-house in Boston at 12 o'clock, and the harbor shut up against all vessels bound thither, and 14 days after none were allowed to depart. The day was devoutly kept at Williamsburg, (Vir.) Philadelphia and other placcs, it was observed as a day of mourning, June 1

A convention at Charleston, (S. C.) disapprove of the ministerial measures, and adopt sundry resolves respecting the shutting up of the port of Boston, July 6

Pennsylvania adopts the several resolves made by South Carolina, July 22

All the colonies from New-Hampshire to South Carolina inclusively, adopted the measure of electing representatives to meet in a general CONGRESS, August 10

Gov. (or General) Gage sends two companies

of soldiers to Charleston, who possessed themselves of the powder in the arsenal; in 24 hours near 30,000 inhabitants assembled (mostly in arms) September 1 Fortifications on Boston neck begun by General Gage to cut off the communication between the town and country, September

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The delegates from all the colonies (except N.
Carolina) meet in General Congress at Phila-
delphia. They appointed Peyton Randolph
Esq. President, and Mr. Charles Thompson,
Secretary, and immediately proceeded to bu-
siness, September 5

The North Carolina delegates arrive and joint
the continental Congress, September
Congress publish their declaration of rights,
October 8

Governor Gage issued writs for holding a Gẻ

neral Assembly at Salem on the 5th of October-he afterwards counteracts the writs by proclamation—90 new members meet at Salem, October 5-no Governor appears, they wait three days, resolve themselves into a provincial Congress, chuse Mr. Hancock President, and adjourned to Concord, October 9 The General Congress having finished their deliberations, dissolved themselves, October 26 The Massachusetts provincial Congress publish their preparations for hostile opposition, November 23

More than four hundred men collected and be- .
set his Majesty's castle at Portsmouth. Cap-
tain Cochran, who commanded, ordered three
four-pounders to be fired on them; before he
could be ready to fire again, the fort was
stormed on all quarters, and the assailants im-
mediately secured him and his men, took all
the powder, &c. then released their prisoners,
December 14

A battle between the whigs and tories at New-
York; the latter defeated by the former, un-
der the command of Captain Sears, March 5
Lexington battle. Here was spilt the first blood
in the late war. The British had 65 killed and
180 wounded, and 28 made prisoners, total
273; the provincials, 50 killed, 3 wounded,
and 4 missing, in all 88, April 19
Captain John Derby, of Salem, receives the first
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naval commission granted by Massachusetts provincial Congress; he is entrusted with dispatches to Dr. Franklin, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain with an account of the Lexington battle, April

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without the loss of a man on either side, May 10 Ib.
Generals Howe, Clinton and Burgoyne, arrive at
Boston, May 25

The provincial army at Cambridge (near Bos-
ton) amounted to 7644, June 10
General Gage issued a proclamation offering a
pardon in the King's name, to all who should
lay down their arms and return to their peace-
able occupations, (Samuel Adams and John.
Hancock excepted) June 12

Congress for the first time styled the colonies

THE TWELVE UNITED COLONIES, June 7 The Congress of the United Colonies proceed to choose by ballot, a general to command all the continental forces, and George Washington, Esq. was unanimously elected, June 15 George Washington, Esq. received his commission as Captain General and commander in chief Charlestown burnt--battle at Breed's Hill (erroneously called Bunker's). General Warren killed-The British lost in killed and wounded, 1328--The loss of the provincials in killed and wounded, amounted to 453, June 17 General Washington, accompanied by other of

ficers, arrived at Cambridge and took the command of the provincial army, July 2 The colony of Georgia joins the United Colonies, September

Falmouth (Mass.) burnt by order of the British
admiral, October 17

Lord Dunmore attempts to burn the port town
of Hampton, but was repulsed, October 27
Battle between the royalists and provincials near
Norfolk, November
Colonel Woodward with the provincials enter
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killed in attempting to scale the wall; the
Americans defeated, December 31
Norfolk cannonaded and burnt-damage esti-
mated at $1,332,000. Lord Dunmore was
principal actor in burning the best town in his
government, January 1

Gen. Schuyler, by order of Congress, disarmed
the inhabitants of Johnstown, January 20
General Lee collected 1200 continental troops
at Stamford for the purpose of taking posses-
sion of New-York, but was detained with the
gout. Captain Sears, alias King Sears, takes
the command of Colonel Waterbury's regi-
ment and marches immediately into and takes
possession of New-York, January 22
Preparations for taking Dorchester heights, Fe-
bruary 26

Battle at Moore's Creek, (N. C.) the British de-
feated by Colonel Lillington, February 27
A heavy service of cannon and mortars began to
play on the town of Boston from Cobble-Hill,
Lechmer's Point, and Lamb's Dam, a forti-
fied battery at Roxbury, March 2

Seven ships loaded with rice, &c. for General
Howe's army, burnt at Savannah, March 3
General Howe resolves upon evacuating Boston,
March 6

General Howe issued a proclamation, ordering
all woollen and linen goods to be delivered to
Crane Brush, be they in whose hands they
might, March 9

The streets of Boston barricadoed in different
parts of the town, March 14

A breast-work was discovered to be thrown up
by the Americans at Nook's Hill on Dorches-
ter peninsula, which from its proximity, had
an entire command of Boston, which obliges
the British to evacuate it, amounting to 7575,
exclusive of the staff, March 17
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off five regiments under General Heath, for New-York, March 18 Congress permit armed vessels to be fitted out, and cruise on the enemies of the United Colonies, March 23 Massachusetts Council and House of Representatives, compliment his Excellency the Com-, mander in Chief, in a joint address, March 29 Congress resolve that no slaves be imported into the United Colonies, April 6

The remains of General Warren were taken up and decently interred in Boston, by the Society of Free Masons, whereof he was late Grand Master, April 8

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ed at New-York, April 14
Richard H. Lee, Esq. one of the delegates from
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General Howe arrived at Sandy-Hook in the fri-
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General Clinton repulsed in S. Carolina, June 28
Congress resolved itself into a committee of the
whole on the subject of independency, July 1
The British take possession of Staten-Island,
July 2

Congress publish the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, which separated the American Colo-
nies (by the name of the United States of
America) from Great Britain. This great
event took place 284 years after the discovery
of America by Columbus, 170 from the first
settlement in Virginia, and 156 from the
first settlement at Plymouth. July 4
Battle on Long-Island, the Americans defeated
August 27; the American troops withdraw
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