On this day 250 years ago in Boston John Adams’s law clerk Edward Hill wrote to John Adams to supplement the report from William Tudor the previous day:

Many people were disappointed that the Bar did not refuse to go on with any Business. An Advertisement was posted up at the Court house threatning death to any one of the Bar who should appear at Court to do any Business. One of those was posted upon the Door of the Offices of both the Quincys.

I cannot omit mentioning that I was present when the People assembled at Cambridge; and never saw men who appear’d so determined to pursue the measures they had plan’d. They were dress’d just as they are at work. Every man appeared as composed as if they were at a funeral. I saw many among them whom I should judge were 60 and 70 years of age.

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The following are the names of those of the Council who took the oaths but have since refused—(Voluntarily) A. Oliver Esq., Colo. Watson, Isaac Winslow, Jos. Lee, Saml. Danforth, J. Simpson, T. Hutchinson junr.—(by compulsion) Timo. Paine, A. Willard, Thos. Oliver.2 Messrs. Lee and Danforth were obliged to declare their having resigned in person to the Body at Cambridge — it is expected that not one will hold out a week longer.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%224%20September%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr=

Also on this day 250 years ago, George Washington arrived in Philadelphia to attend the Continental Congress. Washingtom stayed at the home of Dr. William Shippen Jr. Shippen would later serve as the chief physician and director-general of the Medical Corps of the Continental Army. This house remains standing in Philadelphia today.

Sources: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%224%20September%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=; https://www.ushistory.org/districts/societyhill/shipp.htm