Pembroke Resolves Day Declared 28 December 2018

Rev. Dr. Bert White (pictured) offered a sense a civic pride as it was announced that Dec. 28 will now be known as Pembroke Resolves Day on Dec, 28, 2018. Pembroke was the first town in the 13 Colonies to denounce British rule. [Wicked Local photo/Adam Silva]

Pembroke’s place in history honored with Pembroke ​Resolves Day

The Reverend Dr. Bert White of Pembroke, together with MA Representative Josh Cuter (D-6th Plymouth), successfully shepherded a Proclamation through the MA House of Representatives declaring December 28, 2018 as Pembroke Resolves Day.  In honor and commemoration of Pembroke Resolves Day, at 3 PM on December 28th.  The Pembroke Resolves, written in 1772 as an act of defiance against the King of England, was read again at the location of its creation, the Veteran's Room at Town Hall 100 Center Street Pembroke, MA at 3 PM. The event was free and open to the public.

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The Reverend Dr. Bert White of Pembroke, together with MA Representative Josh Cuter (D-6th Plymouth), successfully shepherded a Proclamation through the MA House of Representatives declaring December 28, 2018 as Pembroke Resolves Day.  In honor and commemoration of Pembroke Resolves Day, at 3 PM on December 28th.  The Pembroke Resolves, written in 1772 as an act of defiance against the King of England, was read again at the location of its creation, the Veteran's Room at Town Hall 100 Center Street Pembroke, MA at 3 PM. The event was free and open to the public.

″....‘The first official utterance of revolution did not spring from a congress of the colonies, or the future chiefs of the republic: from the rich who faltered, or the learned who weigh and debate. The people of the little interior town of Pembroke in Plymouth County, unpretending husbandmen, full of the glory of their descent from the Pilgrims, concluded a clear statement of their grievances with the prediction that ‘if the measures so justly complained of were persisted in and enforced by fleets and armies, they must, they will in a little time issue in the total dissolution of the union between the mother country and the colonies.’" --George Bancroft 

For more information visit SANDS OF TIME: Resolves revisited authored by Brett Robinson, Co-curator of the Pembroke Historical Society. 

A Message from MA Rep. Josh S. Cutler (D-6th Plymouth) 

"HAPPY PEMBROKE RESOLVES DAY! Pleased to pass this House resolution recognizing December 28, 2018 as the Pembroke Resolves Day to commemorate the town's bravery and courage in rebelling against King George and Mother England on this date in 1772. The Pembroke Resolves were series of ten articles detailing grievances against Great Britain and their meddling in domestic affairs. The articles were authored by Town Clerk John Turner and several other distinguished Pembroke residents comprising the town's Committee of Correspondence, and approved by Pembroke Town Meeting on Dec 28, 1772. Many other towns later offered their own resolves setting out a list of grievances against the crown, but Pembroke was the first to go so far as calling for independence. Thanks to Bert White and Steve Herrmann for helping organize this revolutionary recognition effort. We all learn about the "shot heard round the world" in Lexington and Concord, but this "proverbial" shot heard round the world certainly merits its own recognition." 

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