At noon on this day 250 years ago in Charleston, South Carolina, Patriots rowed Captain Ball and the three merchants who had agreed to purchase his tea out to the Britannia anchored in the harbor where “an oblation was made to NEPTUNE, of the said seven chests of tea.” A crowd of Charlestonians watched from the docks and gave three hearty cheers as the tea was dumped into the waters of the harbor.

Sources: https://oliverpluff.com/blogs/news/charles-town-s-2nd-tea-party-november-3-1774; https://www.legendsofamerica.com/the-charleston-tea-parties/

On this day 250 year ago in Alexandria, Virginia, the Fairfax Independent Company drilled, probably in the fields north of the town. George Washington recorded in his diary two days earlier that he met with other officers of the Company at Mount Vernon and on this day said he went to Alexandria for the day so he probably led the drill. An observer wrote an “effigy of Lord North was shot at, then carried in a great parade into the town, and burnt.”

Source: https://archive.org/details/JournalOfNicholasCresswell17741777/page/n33/mode/2up; https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%223%20November%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr=

And on this day 250 years ago in Boston, Benjamin Franklin’s sister Jane Mecom wrote a letter to Franklin who was still in London that “there is hardly four and twenty hours Pases without some fray” between British soldiers and people of Boston.

Source, Norton, Mary Beth, 1774 the Long Year of Revolution at 219.