Repudiation Day
Repudiation Day is held on November 23. Frederick County, Maryland, United States. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual. Help us
Each year, the Frederick Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosts a tea party to celebrate Repudiation Day. Tea and crumpets are served, and the Clerk of the Court reads the original proclamation passed by the judges and the Maryland Provincial Assembly in November 1765. The late Judge Edward Delaplaine described the day, Nov. 23, 1765, as a landmark event.
The Maryland Manual states on page 329 that the General Assembly of 1894 made November 23 a bank half-holiday in Frederick County, under the title of "Repudiation Day," in commemoration of the repudiation of the Stamp Act in 1765.
In 1765, the judges of Frederick County became the first to repudiate the British Stamp Act, a tax which was designed to cover the costs of keeping British troops in the American colonies.
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