On this day 250 years ago, Samuel Adams, attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia wrote to Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren in Boston that the Congress had adopted Suffolk Resolves that Warren had written (see my blogs of September 9 & 17). Adams added:

They strongly recommend your perseverance in a firm and temperate conduct, and give you a full pledge of their united efforts on your behalf. I have been assured in private conversation with individuals, that, if you should be driven to the necessity of acting in defense of your lives or liberty, you would be justified by their constituents and openly supported by all means in their power.

Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/samuel-adams-boston-revolutionary.htm#_ftn19

Also on this day in Williamsburg, Virginia, Clementina Rind, the publisher of one of the two Virginia Gazettes in Williamsburg passed away after a brief illness. Rind was the official printer for the Virginia Assembly and 1774 had published the Assembly’s Call for Fasting and Prayer, Thomas Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and numerous articles in the Virginia Gazette supporting Patriot resistance to British misrule.

Source: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/clementina-rind/

See my blogs for April 13, May 19, May 25, June 23, June 24, July 26, August 4, and August 8.