On this day 250 years ago, the Town of Walpole, Massachusetts voted that “one Quarter part of the Training Band Soldiars should be Inlisted in the Province Service to be Ready at a minutes warning.” The Town also voted that these minutemen should be paid out of the town’s treasury two shillings per day and “Exercised in the Military art or disipline.” The Town elected Captain Ebenezer Clap (or Clapp), Captain Seth Kingsbury and William Fisher as a committee to drill the minutemen. Clap and Kingsbury would go on to serve as Lt. Colonels in the Revolutionary War.

Source: https://archive.org/details/storyofwalpole1700delu/page/n305/mode/2up

Also on that day 250 years ago, King and Queen County, Virginia formed a Committee to enforce the Continental Association boycott of trade with Britain.

Source: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/672b0c83-5d0c-4bed-85f0-57599c7a60b1/content at p. 77.

Modern Note: On this day 62 years ago in Bayshore, New York, my wife was born. Happy Birthday Pat!