On this day 250 years ago, the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote that “Our Enemies . . . are alarmed at the Union which they see is already established in this Province, and the Confederacy into which they expect the whole Continent of America, will soon be drawn, for the Recovery of their violated RIGHTS” and urged the Weymouth Committee of Correspondence (and presumably other Committees) to “communicate to us any Discoveries or just Suspicions of their sinister Designs; and also, that you will never be wanting in encouraging that Unity and Harmony in Councils, so essentially necessary to the obtaining the great End we have in View, the Salvation of Ourselves and Posterity from Tyranny & Bondage.”

Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2020767497/