On this day 250 years ago in Boston, Dr. Joseph Warren wrote to his good friend Josiah Quincy II in London:

America hath in store her Bruti and Caesii… patriots and heroes, who will form a band of brothers, men who will have… courage and swords, courage that shall inflame their ardent bosoms till their hands cleave to their swords, and their swords to their enemies’ hearts… It is the united voice of America to preserve their freedom, or lose their lives in defense of it.

Within a year both men would give their lives in defense of American freedom. Quincy dead from tuberculosis on a ship carrying him back to Boston from his secret mission to London on behalf of the Boston Committee of Correspondence. And Warren dead on the field at Bunker Hill heroically standing his ground even after the Patriots had run out of ammunition.

Source: https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/warren/

Also on that day in Annapolis, Maryland, 57 delegates assembled in Annapolis as the Second Maryland Provisional Convention, chaired by Matthew Tilghman. Tilghman would go on to join the Second Continental Congress where he voted for the motion for Independence but he did not sign the Declaration of Independence. Instead he returned to Maryland to preside over another session of the Maryland Convention and to lead the drafting of Maryland’s Constitution.

Source: https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2600/sc2685/genassem/html/gaconvention2-3.html

And on that day in Massachusetts, the Towns of Watertown and Concord voted to join the Continental Association boycotting trade with Britain. Watertown elected a Committee of nine men to enforce the boycott. Concord elected David Brown, James Barrett, Joseph Hosmer, Jonas Heywood and Abijah Bond as its Committee of inspection “to see to the punctual observance” of the boycott and voted that anyone violating the boycott “should be treated with neglect and detestation.”

Sources: https://www.nps.gov/people/captain-david-brown-of-concord.htm; https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/lexington-and-concord-watertown-militia/