On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, Richard Henry Lee visited George Washington. Two months later both men were traveling together to join the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Source: “[Diary entry: 5 March 1775],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0005-0005-0005. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 312.]
On that day in Boston, Lt. Mackenzie of the Royal Welch Fusiliers recorded in his diary:
This being Sunday, the Annual Oration, delivered in consequence of what is called by the Rebellious party, the Mafsacre of the 5th March 1770, on which day some rioters were killed & wounded by the Military; was postponed until to-Morrow.
On This Day In The Revolution 