On this day 250 years ago at the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond, the Committee formed by Patrick Henry’s resolutions on the previous day presents its recommendations to the Convention for the formation of the Virginia militia. Patrick Henry is chairman of the Committee and the other members are Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Lewis, William Christian, Adam Stephen, George Washington, Isaac Zane, Jr., Robert Carter Nicholas, Lemuel Riddick, Edmund Pendleton, and Benjamin Harrison.

All of these delegates except Zane and Riddick served in prominent roles in the Revolution and have already been mentioned in this blog and will be mentioned again. Lemuel Riddick of Suffolk had represented Nansemond County in the House of Burgesses for thirty-nine years and was Clerk of the Nansemond County Court, but died in December1775. Isaac Zane represented Frederick County in the Virginia Conventions and Virginia Assembly throughout the Revolution, but his most important contribution to American Independence was his ownership and management of the Marlboro Iron Works, one of the largest suppliers of ordnance — producing six- and four-pound cannon, shot, swivel balls, chain shot, kettles, salt pans, and stoves — for the Virginia Militia and Continental Army.

Sources: https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/2nd-virginia-convention; Roger W. Moss, “Isaac Zane, Jr., a ‘Quaker for the Times’”, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 77, No. 3 (Jul., 1969), pp. 291-306 accessed at https://www.jstor.org/stable/4247486; https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/034-0125/; https://sallysfamilyplace.com/riddick/

On this day 250 years ago in Concord, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress resolves that

measures . . . for the purpose of putting this colony into a complete state of defense, be still most vigorously pursued by the several towns, as well as individual inhabitants, and that any relaxation would be attended with the utmost danger to the liberties of this colony and of all America

Source: The Journals of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, Dutton and Wentworth, Boston (1838) at p. 110 accessed at https://archive.org/details/journalsofeachprma00mass/page/110/mode/2up?view=theater

And on this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, England, the British Marines embark on transport ships for the voyage to Boston.

Source: James Kences, “American Revolution Chronology September 24 2015” accessed at American Revolution Chronology (8).pdf