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Showing posts with label Peyton Randolph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peyton Randolph. Show all posts
Saturday, October 24, 2026

“Mr. Randolph, our former President is here, and Sits very humbly”

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In April 1775, John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying together at the parsonage in Lexington , where Hancock had spent some of his ch...
Monday, August 03, 2026

“So disagreeable that one half of the Congress withdraw”

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Delving into the newly published John Dickinson letters also led me back into the notes of the Continental Congress during 1775. The off...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

When George Washington “went to the Fire works”

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One of the arguments for the importance of the Gaspee incident in the American Revolution is that George Washington attended fireworks in...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Virginia Takes an Even Less Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act

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None of Virginia’s established political leaders liked the Stamp Act . Gov. Francis Fauquier (shown here) had advised his superiors in Lo...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Virginia Takes a Less Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act

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On this date 250 years ago the Virginia House of Burgesses took up the resolutions against the Stamp Act that Patrick Henry had drafted ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Virginia Considers a Firm Stand Against the Stamp Act

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Britain’s North American colonies had a chance to weigh in on the Stamp Act before Parliament passed it, as described back here . All of...
Friday, February 24, 2012

John Adams on Benjamin Harrison’s “Pleasantries”?

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Yesterday I quoted John Adams ’s critical description of Benjamin Harrison , a Virginian delegate to the Continental Congress , in his auto...