On this day 250 years ago, the Sally set sail from Essex County, Virginia with “one thousand and eighty-seven bushels of Indian corn, for the use of our suffering brethren in” Boston. The Essex County Committee led by John Upshaw had arranged for the collection of the corn and the shipment to Massachusetts. Unfortunately inclement weather drove the schooner south, to the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. There the cargo was sold and the proceeds sent to the Boston Committee.

https://www.academia.edu/42263308/Death_Be_Not_Proud; Letter to John Hancock, Esq., or the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Boston dated Sep. 19, 1774 reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, The Spirit of Seventy-Six, The Story of the American Revolution as Told by its Participants at 34-35

Also on this day, Rev. Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough, Massachusetts recorded in his diary that “there was gathering of people from Several Towns to Watertown, here they expected a Body of Regulars would come to carry off the Great Guns which had been moved there from Charlestown — but the Regulars which were in motion did not go to Waterton but to Dorchester neck, to entrench that important place.”

https://diary.ebenezerparkman.org/1774/09/19/

And on this day in Philadelphia, Samuel Adams wrote to Rev. Charles Chauncey of the First Church (Congregational) in Boston:

Last Friday Mr. Revere brought us the spirited and patriotick Resolves of your County of Suffolk. We laid them before the Congress. They were read with great applause, and the Enclosed Resolutions were unanimously passed, which give you a faint idea of the spirit of the Congress. I think I may assure you that America will make a point of supporting Boston to the utmost.

https://archive.org/details/writitngssamadam03adamrich/page/154/mode/2up?view=theater