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The month of May . . .

May 1769 . . .
16th: Virginia Resolves drafted by George Mason and introduced in House of Burgesses by George Washington asserted that only governor and colony's own legislature had right to levy taxes in Virginia, and condemned Parliamentary proposal to send Americans to England for trial.
May 1773 . . .
10th: Parliament passed Tea Act which, although it retained tea duty from Townshend Act, made it possible for British East India Company to undersell smuggled tea in America conlonies - if it could be sold. Tea was subsequently turned back or impounded in New York City, Philadelphia and Charleston, burned in Annapolis, and dumped in Boston.
May 1774 . . .
17th: General Gage landed in Boston to assume duties as Massachusettes Governor in addition to those as British Army Commander-in-Chief.
20th: Massachusettes Governor Act, another of Coercive Acts, virtually annulled colonial charter and gave governor control of local town meetings.
May 1775 . . .
1st: People of New York City chose Committee of One Hundred to "stand or fall with liberty of the continent."
10th: Second Continental Congress met in State House (Independence Hall), in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. Delegates from all colonies except Georgia were present.
10th: Fort Ticonderoga, New York, gaurding portage between Lake Champlain and Lake George on strategis Montreal-New York waterway, was captured by mixed force of Green Mountain Boys and others led by Ethan Allen and Col. Benedict Arnold (Ticonderoga Campaign). Capture included 50 British soldiers and large quantities of cannon and other ordnance supplies.
11th: Patriots in Savanah, Georgia, seized powder from royal magazine.
12th: Patriots captured Crown Point, New York, British post on LAKE Champlain 10 miles north of Ticonderoga, and its ordnance stores.
15th: Acting on request of City and County oF New York through colony delegates, Continental Congress appointed committee to determine lmilitary posts and number of troops needed to man them in New York, first step toward absorbing New York forces into a Continental army.
17-18th: St. Johns, Canada, on Richelieu River east of Montreal, was occupied briefly by Col. Benedict Arnold and on next day by Ethan Allen anD Green Mountain Boys.
25th: Maj. Gens. John Bourgoyne, Henry Clinton and William Howe arrived in Boston as part of reinforcements for General Gage. By mid - June British had force of 6,500 rank and file in Boston.
25th: Acting on committee report, Continental Congress resolved that posts were needed at Kings Bridge, Hudson Highlands and Lake George in New York, which should be manned by not more than 3,000 men, with action by New York provincial Congress "until further order is taken by this Congress."
27th: Patriot attack on Noodle's (now eAst Boston) and Hog Islands in Boston harbor included destruction of British armed schooner Diana. In day of skirmishing four patriots were slightly wounded and two British killed and several wounded.
31st: Mecklenburg Resolves (Mecklenburg County, North Carolina) declared British laws null and void.
31st: Governor Josiah Martin of North Carolina fled from New Bern first to Fort Johnson on Cape Fear  and then on 18 July to British sloop Cruzier in Cape Fear River.
May 1776 . . .

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Resource obtained from 'The War of the American Revolution' by Robert W. Coakley & Stetson Conn, Center of Military History.

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