Underlined items directly involved Culpeper residents

21 October 1765 – Culpeper Stamp Act Protest 21 Oct. 1765- Sixteen of Twenty Culpeper County Court Justices resigned their seats in protest to the Stamp Act.

Late 1760s-early 1770s – At least fourteen Baptists ministers were jailed in the Culpeper Courthouse jail, prompting a movement for religious freedom that eventually culminated in the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 and the First Amendment to the Constitution in 1791.

16 December 1773 – Protest of Bostonians against the forced British taxation on Tea carried out in Boston’s Harbor.
May 1769 – In response to the Townshend Acts, Culpeper Burgesses Henry Pendleton and John Green supported the May 1769 Resolves.

February-March 1774 – British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American
colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party which had the effect of turning the focus of all of the colonies toward injustices brought by Parliament.

26 May 1774 – Culpeper Burgesses Henry Field Jr. and Henry Pendleton were among those who were drafting legislation to
support Bostonians resulting from the Intolerable Acts. In response, Lord Dunmore, Virginia’s royal governor, dissolved Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

27 May 1774 – Culpeper Burgesses Henry Field Jr. and Henry Pendleton signed the Former 89 Burgesses Association document at
Williamsburg’s Raliegh Tavern in protest of the closure of the Port of Boston in May 27, 1774.

7 July 1774 – The Culpeper Resolves were written and passed on July 7, 1774

1 August 1774 – The First Virginia Convention began and serving from Culpeper were Henry Pendleton and Henry Field Jr.

5 September 1774 – Edmund Pendleton, brother of Culpeper’s Nathaniel Pendleton, James Pendleton, and brother-in-law of
James Gaines, served in the First Continental Congress which met on September 5, 1774.

20 March 1774 – The Second Convention opened in Richmond and met at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia on
March 20, 1775 and serving from Culpeper were Henry Pendleton and Henry Field Jr. where they heard Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech.

19 April 1775 – Massachusetts Minutemen battle at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.

20-21 April 1775 – Virginia Gunpowder Incident in Williamsburg prompted the movement of 2,000 minutemen toward
Fredericksburg, including minutemen from Culpeper County, between April 23 and April 27, 1775 before standing down.

10 May 1775 – The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, with representatives from 12 of the
colonies.

19 June 1775 – The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775, who had become Culpeper’s first county surveyor twenty-six years earlier in 1749.

17 July 1775 – The Third Virginia Convention in July 17, 1775 again met at St. Johns Church in Richmond. Culpeper County sent as delegates Henry Field Jr. and Henry Pendleton. This Convention authorized counties to form minutemen units.

19 August 1775 – The Culpeper Minutemen were authorized to organize with the formation of the 3rd Virginia Convention which
met on 17 July 1775 and they passed an ordinance on 19 August 1775 authorizing the formation of county minutemen. Probably by August recruitment and mustering of the Culpeper Minutemen from Orange, Fauquier, and Culpeper County began under a large oak tree at “Clayton’s old field” on the Catalpa estate (present-day Yowell Park).