On this day 250 years ago, the New York Committee of Correspondence dispatched a rider to Boston to deliver the news of the passage of the Boston Port Act. They were unaware that the Boston Committee of Correspondence had already dispatched Paul Revere to ride to New York City to deliver that news but would learn that in a couple of days when Revere

Also on this day at the Lenape village of Gekelukpechink which the British and Americans called “Newcomer’s Town” (present day Newcomerstown Ohio), two Lenape (or Delaware) Chiefs — Koquethagechton (who also was known by the English name “George White Eyes”) and Hopocan (aka “Captain Pipe”) — met with a council of Lenape plus Shawnee and Mingo Indians from the Ohio villages. White Eyes and Pipe attempted to persuade the Ohio Indians not to go on the warpath in retaliation for the murder of Logan’s family and other recent atrocities committed by Virginia settlers. They were successful in keeping the Lenape peaceful but by the end of the council the Mingo and Shawnee were threatening to kill all whites that they encountered.

Sources: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p. 89;

Williams, Glenn F., Dunmore’s War at p. 87.