On this day 250 years ago Paul Revere rode into New York carrying a copy of the Boston Port Act and the recommendations of the Boston Committee of Correspondence that New York and other towns join Boston in committing to the non-importation of goods from Britain.

Also on this day, the town meeting of Providence, Rhode Island, instructed its representatives to the General Assembly to enact a law banning the importation of slaves, and to free all slaves born in the colony after they reached maturity.

Sources: https://allthingsliberty.com/2020/09/the-first-efforts-to-limit-the-african-slave-trade-arise-in-the-american-revolution-part-1-of-3-the-new-england-colonies/

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