On this day 250 years ago in Boston, John Andrews wrote to his brother-in-law in Philadelphia about further outrages by the British troops:

The Officers’ animosity to the watch still rankling in their breast, induc’d two of them to go last night to the watch house again at about 10 o’clock and threaten the watch that they would bring a tile of men and blow all their brains out.

Source: https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjohnand00andr/lettersofjohnand00andr_djvu.txt

Also on that day in Charles Town, South Carolina, Henry Laurens wrote to his son John Laurens:

I feel for the distresses of my Country, I weep for the horrid effects of Civil discord which must soon be produced if we proceed in our Contest with Great Britain, & tis impossible that we should forbear unless she will withdraw her oppressive hand. . . . Alas my Country! Alas my Children, alas humanity! You must be spoiled & massacred, you cannot reach the wished for Land of Liberty but through the Wilderness & a Sea ofBrother’s Blood.

John Laurens would indeed be killed seven years later as one of the last casualties of our War to make America the Land of Liberty.

Source: https://www.yorkmaine.org/DocumentCenter/View/10983/American-Revolution-Chronology-