On this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Second Virginia Convention adjourns, but as one of its final acts it elects Thomas Jefferson as an alternate delegate to replace Peyton Randolph if he was unable to attend the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Randolph had needed to resign from the First Continental Congress due to illness and if the Virginia House of Burgesses was called into session, Randolph intended to return to Williamsburg to preside as Speaker of the Virginia House. So the delegates to the Virginia Convention expected Jefferson to serve in the Continental Congress at some point, and as we know well today, he did.

Source: https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/2nd-virginia-convention; https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/articles-and-essays/the-thomas-jefferson-papers-timeline-1743-to-1827/1774-to-1783/

Also on this day 250 years ago in Boston, a Loyalist minister writes to the Bishop of London that “it is hardly conceivable what a spirit of phrenzy reigns [in Massachusetts.] England must either resign the Govmt of the Colonies or subdue them.”

Source: Norton at 336.