5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington
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New York's John Jay and the Colonies of America
Some of these gents, like new york's john jay, are still establishing their reputations. But think how cool it must be for these delegates to be in the room. In some cases, they've heard and read about each other in newspapers as far back as a decade ago. After a week and a half of debate over political rights and non importation, congress makes its first big move on september seventeenth. It endorses the suffolk resolves produced by patriots in suffolk county, massachusetts and delivered by a galloping paul revere that same september. These resolutions call the intolerable acts unconstitutional,. say the massachusetts government must be restored
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