Tag: Massachusetts Committee of Safety

People Posted on July 5, 2021July 3, 2021

North Carolina’s Response to the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Rumors roared throughout the Colonies in the spring of 1775. From Watertown, Massachusetts, with an earnest pen, a letter was taken down at 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, April 19, 1775. Reports had been sent to New London, Rhode Island, and were beginning to extend south to the Carolinas, that, “action had happened between the […]

by Travis Copeland

People Posted on September 24, 2019September 23, 2019

Massachusetts Privateers During the Siege of Boston

Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts Grand Army surrounded Boston and began to lay siege to it. The Massachusetts Committee of Safety quickly recognized that in order to drive the British army from the town, it had to starve them out.[1] The British military had a longstanding practice of acquiring fresh provisions […]

by Alexander Cain