On this day 250 years ago in Baltimore, a town meeting was held at the courthouse to discuss the closure of the Port of Boston. The meeting adopted Resolutions that supported an embargo of Great Britain and also the West Indies. They also called for the formation of a Maryland congress and an intercolonial congress.

Source: Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at p.98.

Also on this day 250 years ago, in Dumfries, Virginia a committee that included William Grayson, Andrew Leitch, Cuthbert Bullitt, Foushee Tebbs and Richard Graham issued a call to Prince William County’s freeholders to gather at the County courthouse on June 6 to “Deliberate on Measures . . . to be taken to avert the dreadful Calamities which . . . are threatened from the unconstitutional Act of Parliament [that] is fundamentally subversive of our ancient legal and vital Liberties.” Colonel William Grayson and Major Andrew Leitch would go on to serve in the Continental Army, with Leitch killed at the Battle of Harlem Heights. Richard Graham was an officer in the Prince William militia, and Bullitt and Tebbs both served on the Prince William Committee of Safety and held civil offices in the County and Richmond during the War.

Source: Cecere, Michael, In This Time of Extreme Danger: Northern Virginia in the American Revolution at p. 17.