On this day 250 years ago in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the order was issued for “Militia minutemen [to] hold themselves in readiness at a minutes warning, compleat in arms and ammunition; that is to say a good and sufficient firelock, bayonet, thirty rounds of powder and ball, pouch and knapsack.”

Source: https://historicalnerdery01.blogspot.com/

On the same day in Dumfries, Virginia, the Prince William County Independent Company under the command of William Grayson conducted a drill. Grayson reported to Col. George Washington the next day that “several of the soldiers had purchas’d muskets in the Country, and that some others had imploy’d our own gunsmiths to make them proper arms.”
Source: “To George Washington from William Grayson, 27 December 1774,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0152. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, pp. 214–215.]available at https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2227%20December%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=4&sr=

On this day 250 years ago on a Royal Navy ship anchored off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Governor Wentworth issued a Proclamation deploring the “treasonable Insults and Outrages” committed by the men who raided Fort William and Mary and commanding that all civil and military officials “exert themselves in detecting and securing in his Majesty’s Goals in this province the said Offenders, in order to their being brought to condign punishment.”

Source: https://nhsar.org/the-raid-on-fort-william-and-mary-in-1774/#[133]