On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington wrote to Rev. Townshend Dade, Jr., minister of the Fairfax Parish, and a fellow member with Washington of the Fairfax Committee enforcing Virginia’s boycott of British imports:

As it is necessary that the Free holders of this County should be convened, in order to make choice of a Committee agreeably to the recommendation of the Congress for the purpose of carrying the Association more effectually into Execution I shall be obliged to you for giving notice at both your Churches that Wednesday the 30th of this Instt is appointed for this purpose at the Court House in Alexandria, when it is hoped that all those who have a right to vote, that is, all Freeholders, will give their attendance, ⟨and feel the⟩ matter of sufficient consequence to engage their attention. I have requested the like favour of Mr Massey, which will be a means of giving full notice to the County, as publication will be made at each Church.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2219%20November%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=4&sr=

On this day 250 years ago in London, a newspaper published “Bostonians in Distress” one of the iconic prints of the Revolution showing the plight of Boston suffering from the blockade of the Royal Navy. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=8&psid=4201&filepath=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/primarysources_upload/images/bostonians_LG.gif

Also on that day in London, an article by an anonymous American author, most likely Benjamin Franklin, entitled “The Question Presented” was published

Amongst the various measures proposed by the Americans to obtain redress for their violated rights, the following have been considered as very likely to effectuate the purpose.

I. A Petition or Remonstrance to Parliament against their late Acts, with a decent firm declaration of our Rights.

II. A Suspension of Trade with Great Britain till the said Acts be repealed.

III. A Suspension of all Trade, with Ireland and the West Indies also.

I design to consider each of these with their probable effects: Premissing these three things. 1. That the said acts sap to the very foundation, every principle of American Liberty. 2. That all England are united in enforcing those acts, and 3. That Therefore the Americans ought to adopt such measures as will most effectually prevent their operation, and effect their repeal.

I. As to the first, I have the following Objections to presenting any Petitions or Remonstrance to the British Parliament.

They will not acknowledge the Congress to be any legal body or representative of America, and therefore any petition will be Loss of Labour and Loss of Time, without effecting our deliverance.

. . .

Any kind of declaration of our rights and liberties will bring the question of American rights into view, and make it the subject of a dispute, which can never be determined; for it is certain the Americans never will acknowledge the legislative and taxing power of the British Parliament, nor will the British Parliament ever relinquish that claim. . . .

. . .

I look on the dignity of the American Congress equal to any assembly on earth, and their deliberations and resolutions more important in their nature and consequences than any which were ever before agitated in council.4 The value and character of America will be fixed, merely as the Congress shall estimate them, and if they assert the Rights and Liberties of America with that precision and effect which is universally expected from them, there can be no doubt but their resolves and advices will be honoured with universal Approbation and Obedience, and I hope and trust they will think it below their dignity, as well as inconsistent with their prudence, to degrade their importance by any weak humiliating concession or conduct.

I do not apprehend that all we can do will be too much. Our all is at stake, our enemies are powerful and determined, trifling expedients will be ridiculous, delays will ruin us, every moment is a moment of the utmost importance, all the world are now viewing and all posterity will look back on the proceedings of the Congress.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0191