On this day 250 years ago, the Continental Association’s Non-Consumption Agreement whereby the Patriots committed that they would “not purchase or use any East India Tea whatsoever; nor will we, nor shall any person for or under us, purchase or use any of those Goods, Wares, or Merchandises” imported from Britain, went into effect.

Sources: https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/the-tea-crisis/; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Continental_Association

Also on that day, the New York City “Committee of Sixty” called a meeting of the city’s freemen and freeholders to consider the best method of choosing representatives to the Second Continental Congress.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2222%20November%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=3&sr=

And on that day in Newport Rhode Island, the Committee of Inspection resolved that

it is the duty of every friend of Civil Government to protect, and preserve from violation, that invaluable right, that noble pillar, and great support of Public Liberty; and to countenance and encourage the Press, so long as it shall be employed in promoting those beneficial purposes. But when, instead thereof, a Press is incessantly employed and prostituted to the vilest uses; in publishing the most infamous falsehoods; in partial or false representations of facts; in fomenting jealousies, and exciting discord and disunion among the people; in supporting and applauding the worst of men, and worst of measures; and in vilifying and calumniating the best of characters, and the best of causes; it then behooves every citizen, every friend to truth, science, arts, liberality of sentiment, to that union between subjects, upon which depends their security against oppression, to discountenance and discourage every such licentious, illiberal, prostituted Press.

Source: Staples, William Read, Annals of the Town of Providence, 1843, p. 244 cited in https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=122118719876712560&id=61571376809799.