On this day 250 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland, Royal Governor Robert Eden wrote:

The spirit of resistance against the Tea Act, or any mode of internal taxation, is as strong and universal here as ever. I firmly believe that they will undergo any hardship sooner than acknowledge a right in the British Parliament in that particular, and will persevere in their non-importation and non-exportation experiments, in spite of every inconvenience that they must consequently be exposed to, and the total loss of their trade.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Revolution

On that day in Walpole, Massachusetts, the Town voted to provide wood to the “Suffering Industrous Poor in the Town of Boston.”

Source: https://archive.org/details/storyofwalpole1700delu/page/n309/mode/2up