Looked up my blog entry I wrote about RCN:
Robert Carter Nicholas
https://myvirginiapeeps.wixsite.com/myvirginiapeeps/post/robert-carter-nicholas

"Nicholas introduced the resolution of May 24, 1774, setting aside June 1
as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer in sympathy with Bostonians on
the closing of that city’s port."

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 2:37 PM marsha moses <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have a project for the next two years that I could use all of the help
> that I can get.  I would like to have a fact about the Revolutionary War
> every month.  Last month, of course, my short talk was about the Boston Tea
> Party since the 16th of December was the 250th anniversary of the Boston
> Tea Party.  I am not aware of a big event that happened in January 1774. (
> If you know of one, please send.)  I am thinking that my theme in January
> will be about how the other colonies began to hear about what had happened
> and was continuing to happen in Boston and in what ways they began to
> react.   I am asking this group specifically if anyone knows of something
> that happened in Virginia as a reaction to what history seems to present as
> the beginning of the Revolutionary War:  The Boston Tea Party.
>
> I am also open to something that happened this early in Virginia unrelated
> to the Tea Party that was a preamble to the war that was coming.  It is as
> if for the next years I want to live in my head as someone in 1774 and what
> was happening in their lives related to the war that was coming.  What
> these people who were always hungry for news were hearing and thinking.  It
> is a DAR group that I will be presenting these very short thoughts each
> month and many of our members have patriots who would have been living in
> Virginia as we are a chapter in WV.
>
> Thanks for any information that anyone can help me with.  Marsha Hawkins
> Moses
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