Podcast – Great American History Stories – Conclusion

Greetings, today I will tell some more stories from my book, A Day in United States History – Book 2. This batch of 6 stories are from July through December and are much shortened versions of the articles in the book. This is the last podcast in this series about the 366 Days Colonial American History Series. If you like the stories I am relating, please follow me on You Tube, where a video version of this podcast will be available.

July 09, 1766 – Jonathan Mayhew Died – Originated the Phrase “No Taxation Without Representation”

The phrase that became the motto of American revolutionaries originated in a sermon given by clergyman Jonathan Mayhew in 1750 during a sermon he gave in Boston’s Old West Church.

A native of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Jonathan Mayhew graduated from Harvard in 1744 and then from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1749. He became and ordained minister in 1747 of Boston’s West Church. He became an ardent opponent of Parliament’s attempt to tax the American colonies. He favored colonial union and used his sermons to advocate for American liberty. On the 100th anniversary of English King Charles I’s execution, January 30, 1749 he delivered a sermon in which he uttered the phrase, “No Taxation without Representation.” Many consider his sermon the opening salvo of the American Revolution.

On August 13, 1728 Russian explorer Vitus Bering determined that there was no land connection between Russia and the North American continent. Czar Peter I of Russia appointed Vitus commander of a mapping expedition to determine Russian’s eastern boundary and the nature of the North American Continent. On a voyage that would reach 3500 miles in length along the Siberian coast, Bering determined that Russia had no land connection with the North American mainland, the first explorer to accomplish this.

Residents of the colony of Connecticut received word on September 3, 1774 that British soldiers had attacked citizens living in Boston. In just a few days over 20,000 men had assembled to travel to Massachusetts to fight the British. Two days later the First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.

King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763 on October 7, 1763. October 07, 1763. The Proclamation banned English settlement on a line drawn roughly along the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclamation angered many colonists that wanted to settle in the resource rich Ohio River Valley. Many consider the Proclamation one of the leading causes of the Revolutionary War over a decade later.

George Washington, in his 1753 expedition to French Fort Le Boeuf traveled nearly 1 month through a trackless wilderness before reaching what would become one of the most strategic points in British North America, the Forks of the Ohio, on November 24, 1753. He and his men emerged from the forest to view their first view of the junction of the Monongahela and the Allegheny River, the source of the mighty Ohio River. Washington would report the site to Virginia’s Royal Governor Robert Dinwiddie, who would later dispatch a militia force to build a fort at the site. Washington’s mission to reinforce this force would fight a battle with French forces which would kick off the French and Indian War.

10 days after the Boston Tea Party the Members of the Philadelphia Committee for Tarring and Feathering met with the captain of the ship that had the tea in its hold on December 16, 1773. The committee members threatened the captain with an “American Exhibition,” if he unloaded the tea. Understanding the implied threat, the captain returned to his ship, weighed anchor and departed Boston.

This is the conclusion of the selection of stories from my 366 Days in American History Series.
The “this day in history,” format includes 366 stories of United States history in every month of the year, allowing readers to read one interesting history tale a day for an entire year. It is a great introduction to history for children. The book is almost 800 pages of fun history stories.

The book is part of my 366 Days in United States History Stories. There are two books in the series. The books are available in ebook, softbound and audio book format on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple and many other online book retailers.
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