On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, Virginia, Clementina Rind printed a broadside of The Call to Fasting and Prayer in Williamsburg at the request of the House of Burgesses. The date and the printer of the broadside are somewhat uncertain. Either Clementina Rind or her competitors Purdie & Dixon could have printed it, and the printing could have occurred on the evening of May 24 or morning of May 26. Because Clementina Rind was the preferred printer and newspaper publisher for the Patriots of Virginia, most reports indicate that she was the printer. The broadsides were posted at multiple locations in Williamsburg by the next day, so May 25 was the most probable date of the printing. And the broadsides would soon be republished in newspapers in all the Colonies.

Although the Order to the members of the House was literally to attend church for prayer, the Order’s language asking to pray for “averting the heavy Calamity, which threatens Destruction to our civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War; to give us one Heart and one Mind firmly to oppose, by all just and proper Means, every Injury to American Rights” would put Virginia with Massachusetts in the lead on the path to Revolution and Independence for all the American colonies.

https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/living-history/getting-know-clementina-rind

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0082

Also on this day in Annapolis, Maryland, Samuel Chase and William Paca led a public meeting that approved a boycott of trade with British merchants.

Source: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/samuel-chase/