On this day 250 years ago in Lebanon, Connecticut, Governor Jonathan Trumbull wrote to British Secretary Lord Dartmouth in London:

It is with particular concern and anxiety that we see the unhappy situation of our fellow subjects in the town of Boston. . . . where we behold many thousands of His Majesty’s virtuous and loyal subjects reduced to the utmost distress by the operation of the Port Act

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

On this day 250 years ago, Daniel Boone leads a party of axmen from the Long Island of the Holston (present day Kingsport, Tennessee) to cut a road into Kentucky in order to establish the proposed colony of Transylvania. Boone would soon be followed by Richard Henderson, the organizer of the the Transylvania Land Company, after he completed negotiations with the Cherokees to purchase the land. Although the Colony of Transylvania was never recognized by the British government or the other colonies, Boone’s Trace would open up Kentucky for settlers and lead to combat with Native Americans as part of the Revolutionary War. A number of commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the opening of Boone’s Trace and the first white settlements in Kentucky are scheduled for later this year.

Sources: https://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/585; https://www.boonetrace1775.com/; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/march-10-2025-daniel-boone-paves-the-way-for-kentucky/id1788369259?i=1000698530231

On this day 250 years ago in New Bern, North Carolina, Royal Governor Josiah Martin writes to warn Lord Dartmouth in London about Richard Henderson’s Transylvania Land Company:

It is an enterprise which threatens the worst consequences, in my opinion, and the more as Henderson is industriously persuading the people that purchases from the Indians are good in law against the crown as well as for any other Claimant, and I shall be glad to receive his Majesty’s commands upon this point

Changing subjects, Martin also warned Dartmouth that, in reaction to the King’s Speech rejecting American protests, the colony’s “seditious leaders . . . talk of resorting to violence instead of submission.”

Sources: https://www.npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/daniel-boone/history/chap8.htm; Norton at 313