ABSTRACT
1774
27 May Eighty-nine burgesses from Virginia and Massachusetts call for a colonial congress to support the stand of Boston against the British.
17 June The Massachusetts House endorses a call for a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in September. General Gage dissolves the House.
2-7 Sept Four thousand Massachusetts militiamen assemble in Boston to resist Gage and the British forces.
17 Sept Congress endorses the Suffolk Resolves calling on the colonists to prepare for armed resistance.
