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Middlesex Resolves topic of Nov. 17 presentation

The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society will take a step back in time to 1774 for a program on the creation of the Middlesex Resolves. The program will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17 at the Urbanna Courthouse, 202 Virginia Street. Ed Ayres, who served as historian of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation from 1988 to 2022, will take the audience back to 1774, when freeholders gathered at that location to stand against taxation without representation. The Middlesex Resolves were one of several such documents drafted following the Tea Crisis and the closing of the port of Boston by the British Empire in response to the Boston Tea Party. For more information on the program, visit www.middlesexmuseum.com. Note: A previous article on this upcoming talk in the Oct. 24 Gazette-Journal included a photograph of Dr. Ed Ayers, another historian, who is associated with the University of Richmond, and not the scheduled speaker for this program....

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