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FEBRUARY
February
2,
February
Excerpts
o
1776
from Thomas
Paine'
s
Common
Sense
appeared
in
Purdie'
s
Virginia
Gazette on February 2 and in John Pinkney' s on February 3. Paine' s work was prob-
ably the most influential of all Revolutionary pamphlets and was designed to rally
support to the Patriot cause. A new edition of Common Sense was announced in the
Pennsylvania Gazette on February 14, of which " several hundred are bespoke, 1000
for Virginia." Not everyone was enthusiastic about the book. Landon Carter thought
it was" nonsense instead of Common Sense."
Williamsburg, Feb. 2, 1776
The subscriber intends moving up to Fredericksburg, where he will carry on the
stocking making business to a greater extent than formerly. He will be much obliged
to those who please to favour him with their work, and makes no doubt but what
work he does will meet with the approbation of the publick, for which he will expect
ready
money.
Adam Allan.
Adam Allan arrived in Virginia from Great Britain in 1772 and established a
stocking manufactory" at Williamsburg. He may have been inclined to move to
Fredericksburg because in September 1775 he managed to recover the " Great Seal
and Crest of the Collony of Virginia" for Lord Dunmore.
In Fredericksburg, Allan' s loyalist sympathies got him into trouble again. This
time he was " stript naked to the waist, Tarr' d and Feather' d and in that Situation
Fredericksburg upwards of two hours." Allan failed to mention how
he so offended the citizens of the town. Somehow Allan managed to remain alive and
Carted through
finally escaped to the British lines in November 1776.
February 7, 1776
On February 7, the Committee of Safety unanimously appointed Edmund Dickinson captain of the " recruits to be raised" in the District of York. Dickinson, a Wil-
liamsburg cabinetmaker, plied his trade at Anthony Hay' s old stand on Nicholson
Street. In 1776 when the Governor' s Palace was being refurnished for the new state
governor, Dickinson supplied some of the furniture.
In 1777 Dickinson was promoted to Major of the 1st Virginia Regiment, and he
was killed at the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. George Washington believed
that
he had lost "
a valuable
officer."
Notice of Dickinson' s death appeared
in the
Universal Magazine, an English publication.
The Virginia Committee of Safety in Williamsburg appointed John James Beckley
assistant
clerk
on
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February
7.
Beckley,
at this time only 18 years
old, had worked
PAMPHLET FILE
�with John Clayton, clerk of Gloucester County, since his arrival in Virginia as an
indentured servant in 1769. On June 22, 1779, Beckley was appointed. clerk of the
Virginia House of Delegates, and he was elected the first clerk of the United States
House of Representatives in 1789.
February 8- 14
February 10, 1776
The Committee of Safety appointed a committee to agree with James Anderson for
the use of his blacksmith shop in Williamsburg for public service on February 10.
Anderson had served as armorer at the Public Magazine
cessful blacksmith.
since 1766 and was a suc-
In March the committee agreed with Anderson to rent his shop and tools and to
pay him and his workmen wages. The first extant copy of the contract is dated March
1777 when it was renewed:
Mr. James Anderson this day agreed to do Blacksmith' s work for the Commonwealth
of Virginia at his shop in Williamsburg on the following terms for six months, and for
a longer time unless he shall give the Board one month' s notice of his intention to
decline the Business, or they shall give him the same notice of their intention to discontinue him viz. Mr. Anderson is to be allowed fifteen shillings per day for his own
wages including Sundays, for the rent of his shop, six setts of Tools and eight Vices for
the Gunsmiths Business at the rate of ninety pounds per annum, he is to be allowed
1/ 6 per day for boarding each work man, for his two forges and five apprentices three
pounds per month Fach, and if he is deprived of either of them by any accident he is
to supply thlr place with another Hand as good; He is to employ workmen as the
public Business requires on the best terms he can, and charge the country with whatever wages he pays.
By 1779 Anderson' s business had outgrown his shop so that is was necessary to
rent the old Anthony Hay cabinet shop on Nicholson Street for more space. The
shops were moved to Richmond in 1780, where they were heavily damaged by the
British in January 1781.
Anderson continued in his capacity of public blacksmith until 1782 when he
resigned and returned to Williamsburg, where he died in September 1798.
Colonial
Williamsburg
Foundation
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“<em>These Boisterous Times…</em>” The Week in ’76 was a newsletter produced by the Colonial Williamsburg Department of Preservation and Research in 1976. Compiled by historian Harold Gill, the newsletter consisted of notable entries from the Virginia Gazette newspaper dated 1776 along with some additional historical background of the mentioned event or person. The newsletter was intended to assist Colonial Williamsburg’s interpreters with adding additional emphasis to events associated with 1776 during the celebration of the American Revolution Bicentennial (United States Bicentennial) in 1976.
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