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Local and National Revolutionary Events
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1754 Ben Franklin Visits Newburyport
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May 28,
1754 French and Indian War Begins
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1756 John Boardman Hangs in Effigy
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September
26, 1765 Stamp Act Protest
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May 20,
1766 News of Stamp Act Repeal
Reaches Newburyport
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1768 Townshend Acts Protest in Newburyport
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March 5,
1770 Boston Massacre
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1773 Newburyport’s Tea Bonfire
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October
2, 1773 John Lowell Defends A
Slave
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December
16, 1773 Boston Tea Party
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1774 Intolerable Acts Pass
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1774 First Continental Congress
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June 15,
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill
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September
15, 1775 Benedict Arnold Visits the Tracy Mansion
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July 4,
1776 Signing of the Declaration of
Independence
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July
16,1776 Reverend Bass Takes a
Patriot’s Stand
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1789 President George
Washington Visits Newburyport
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