On August 14, 1774, Col. Israel Putnam of Connecticut was driving 130 sheep from Brooklyn Parish, Connecticut to Boston as relief for the people of Boston under the blockade. Putnam and his sheep would enter Boston the next day, August 15, 1774. Putnam was a hero of the French and Indian War and would the following year be named as one of the first four Major Generals of the Continental Army.

Sources: https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/boston-port-act-facts/; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Putnam,_Israel