On this day 250 years ago the Town of Andover, Massachusetts appointed a Committee of 5 — Samuel Phillips, Esq., Captain Asa Foster, Joshua Holt, Samuel Osgood and Dr. Joseph Osgood — to respond to a letter from the Boston Committee of Correspondence about the arrival of ships carrying East India Company tea.

At her family’s home Mount Airy Plantation, Maryland, Eleanor Calvert married John Parke Custis, the son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and George Washington’s step-son. George and Martha Washington attended the wedding.

Sources: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55607279/samuel-osgood

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/john-parke-custis