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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
r......Sept. 7, 1774 Resolution of Suffolk, Mass., convention (Sept. 6), that no obedience is due to any part of the recent acts of Parliament, approved by Congress......Sept. 10, 1774 Congress rejects a plan for union with Great Britain, proposed by Joseph Galloway, of Pennsylvania, as intended to perpetuate dependence......Sept. 28, 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant, west Virginia......Oct. 10, 1774 Congress adopts a Declaration of colonial rights, claiming self-government......Oct. 14, 1774 American Association, denouncing foreign slave-trade, and pledging the signers to non-consumption and to non-intercourse with Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies, signed by fifty-two members of Congress......Oct. 20, 1774 Address to the people of Great Britain, prepared by John Jay, approved by Congress......Oct. 21, 1774 Congress adopts a Memorial to the several Anglo-American colonies ......Oct. 21, 1774 A letter to the unrepresented colonies of St. John, N.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
proposes an absolute cessation of intercourse with the mother-country, and nominates Samuel Chase, Robert Goldsborough, William Paca, Matthew Tilghman, and Thomas Johnson delegates to the first Continental Congress at Philadelphia......June 22, 1774 Anthony Stewart, the owner of the brig Peggy Stewart, having paid the duty on a few packages of tea included in the cargo, the people are excited by his act, and under advice of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Stewart burns his vessel......Oct. 14, 1774 George Washington, present in Congress as a member from Virginia, is nominated by Thomas Johnson, of Maryland, to be commander-in-chief of the American forces, and unanimously chosen......June 15, 1775 Convention of Maryland assembles and adopts the famous Association of the freemen of Maryland, which becomes the written constitution of Maryland for a year......July 26, 1775 Maryland line, under Col. William Smallwood, engage in the battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights, White