On this day 250 years ago, Patriots met at the Coffeehouse in New York City to prepare resolutions in response to the Boston Port Act and the Intolerable Acts. The conservative leaders in New York most of whom would end up as Loyalists, opposed a radical response and the resolutions adopted in New York did not go as far as many of the resolutions adopted in the other colonies. However New York did join the other colonies in calling for a continental congress.

Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.10602000/?st=gallery