On this day 250 years ago, the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals was signed by Chiefs Oconostota and Attakullakulla of the Cherokees selling Cherokee rights to most of Kentucky and a portion of Tennessee — upwards of twenty millions of acres of land — to the Transylvania Company led by Richard Henderson.

Source: https://www.npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/daniel-boone/history/chap8.htm; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=47196; https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=268080

And on this day 250 years ago in Richmond County (not the City of Richmond) the Independent Company sent this letter to George Washington:

The Independant Company of Richmond County present their most respectful Compliments to Colo. Washington and beg leave to inform him that they have unanimously chosen him their Commander, should they be obliged to have recourse to Arms to defend their King and Country; they flatter themselves from their Assiduity they shall be able to make a tolerable appearance some time in the Summer, and should look on themselves as highly honoured if the Colonel would be pleased to review them when most Convenient to him; in the mean time they would be glad to be favoured with any Instructions he should think proper to give and Assure him they are with respect His most hble Servants

Source: “To George Washington from Richmond County Independent Company, 17 March 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0233. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 305.]