 Documents in Year 1773
|
|
|
Links of Interest:
King George III, British Monarch over American ColoniesBoston Tea PartyOn 16 December 1773 the Sons of Liberty Patriots threw 340 chests of tea overboard from three ships,
Dartmouth, Eleanor, Brig Beaver,at Griffin's Warf into Boston harbor in a political protest over British tyrrany
of "taxation without representation."
Westward Expansion:
Daniel Boone returns to Hillsborough, North Carolina after spending two
years hunting in the Appalachian Mountains. The Shawnee Indians took all his
furs, but he escaped with his life. Upon returning home he is taken to court
by his creditor. The Judge, Henderson, offers Boone an ultimatum, work in
the labor camp (debtor's prison) or blaze a trail into the Kentucky
Wilderness to the 20 million acres of land
Henderson had purchased. Daniel took 30 settlers into the Kentucky Wilderness and his son,
James Boone was tortured and killed by Shawnee Indians. He returned to North
Carolina with his family and will try again in 1775.
Sources:
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
This 2018 four-episode, high-quality documentary offered on Amazon Prime or the History Channel is well worth watching.
The episode titled "Into the Wilderness" covers the time period from
1773-1783. It compares and contrasts the frontiersmen's efforts led by
Daniel Boone to fight off the Native Americans led by Chief Black Fish,
allies of the British, during the American Revolution. It ends with the
Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 where the British conceded control from the
Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. Although the British
surrendered, the Native Americans did not.
My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone
This free ebook preview provides a major portion of an interview of Nathan Boone, the youngest son of frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
He and his wife recollect interesting stories they knew about his father's
exploits on the American frontier.
Technology: Chronometer invented to determine Longitude at seaBy an act of Parliament on June 21, 1773 John Harrison, 80 year old English carpenter, received the remaining prize money he deserved
for creating the solution to finding longitude at sea with a timekeeper, known as a chronometer today. Go Back to 1772
Lasky, Kathryn. The Man Who Made Time Travel. Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.
Sobel, Dava. Longitude. New York: Walker, 1995.
|
