On this day 250 years ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Second Massachusetts Provincial Congress convened. About 200 towns, from all but two Massachusetts counties, sent delegates to the Congress. Some of the delegates, such as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Lincoln and Elbridge Gerry, are well-remembered in American history, but most are known only by their descendants even though they should be honored for their service to American liberty. For example, the Town of Royalston in Worcester County sent Nahum Green as its representative to the Provincial Congress. After Lexington and Concord, Green would march off to join the Patriot army besieging Boston, but would contract smallpox and pass away on July 29, 1775, as Royalston’s first citizen to die in service of our Country.

Sources: https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/76/mode/2up; https://sites.rootsweb.com/~macroyal/

Also on this day in Savannah, Georgia, Governor Sir James Wright forwarded to Lord Dartmouth the Council’s message that the Georgia Assembly and Council would continue to raise the Colony’s “Numerous Grievances” because it was “highly necessary that the Constitutional Rights of American Subjects may be Clearly defined and firmly established.”

Source: Norton at 266.