On this day 250 years ago in Williamsburg, the Virginia Committee of Correspondence including Thomas Jefferson, met. The Committee ordered letters to be sent to all the other colonies transmitting the declaration adopted by the “Association of Members of the Late House of Burgesses” at the meeting on the previous day.

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Also on this day in Boston, Governor and General Thomas Gage adjourned the Massachusetts legislature and ordered it to reconvene in Salem on June 6, 1774.