On this day 250 years ago, in New York City a meeting of workingmen and merchants was convened by Isaac Low (leading the conservative merchants) and Alexander McDougall (leading the radical workingmen) to discuss New York’s response to the Boston Port Act. When the colonies subsequently went to war against Britain, Low would be a Loyalist and eventually flee to England, while McDougall would become a general in the Continental Army.

Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p. 90