On June 10, 1775, John Adams proposes to Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, that the men laying siege to Boston should be considered a Continental Army led by a general.
Congress appointed on June 10 a committee of five to draft a statement of independence for the colonies. The committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, with the actual writing delegated to Jefferson.
A great weekend in Taylor, Michigan with visitors remarking on the knowledgeable reenactors, interesting camps and exciting battle demonstration.
Great event nice to see it growing and that it has the support of the community and local government.
Gaspee Affair of 1772. On June 9, 1772, a group of prominent merchants and Sons of Liberty led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and burned the British Royal Navy customs schooner HMS Gaspee to the waterline in Narragansett Bay.The daring nighttime raid is widely celebrated as one of the very first acts of violent armed rebellion against British Crown authority in the Americas, predating the famous Boston Tea Party by more than a year.
: The Gaspee was aggressively enforcing British trade and customs laws and had been chasing a local American packet boat named the Hannah
The Gaspee ran hard aground on a sandbar off Namquit Point (in present-day Warwick, Rhode Island), awaiting the high tide.
Seizing an opportunity, local colonists rowed out from Providence, captured the crew, shot the commanding officer, and set the ship ablaze.
British authorities were outraged and offered massive rewards, but Rhode Islanders maintained a tight "wall of silence," and no one was ever convicted for the attack.
Lee Resolution presented to Continental Congress
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduces a resolution for independence to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia; John Adams seconds the motion.
Lee’s resolution declared: “That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.”